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That's fine, I know how to drive and maintain vehicles. Crash safety has been pretty great since the 00s, especially if you shop for it.

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Good thing you're the only person driving on the road isn't it?

I've been driving for almost 15 years, and never had an accident, but in that time there are many occasions where someone else on the road has done something _incredibly_ stupid. All it would have taken in any of those scenarios is for me to be opening a window/changing the radio station/looking in the rear view mirror and I'd have hit them.

> I know how to drive

Everyone thinks that they 'know how to drive'.

Even if you do, the point is other people may not know how to drive and may crash into you.

You're not the only one driving on the streets and often, other drivers are the greater danger.

about half the crashes are single vehicle accidents, and pileup drive the statistic for multicrash vehicle count, it's quite less likely being collected by a bad driver than flat stat would imply.

That stats you wrote don't disprove the above statement. You still have half crashes being multi vehicle accident, which is quite a lot.

The crash event being pileup does not changes anything.

multicar crash happens 1/cars times, duh, they account for the same fatalities but you are far less likely to be in one, because they are tied to exceptional events (i.e. snow) and non uniform across the population.

Snow is not exceptional event. Nor is rain.

And while multi car crashes happen less often, they involve more cars, so if don't affect you chance to not get into one.

The new crash safety features that actually prevent crashes are a step up from what was offered in the 00s.

> I know how to drive and maintain vehicles

Do others? You are but one in the massive herd

Disclaimer: My daily is from 1981

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