It's EXTREMELY uncommon for cars to Grand-Theft-Auto-style run people down walking on the sidewalk.
~80% of pedestrian deaths happen when it's dark.
There's about ~19 pedestrians that get killed by cars per day. Only ~4 during day time.
You have a higher chance being in a random mass shooting. Worrying about getting killed by a car in broad daylight is silly.
That's pedantic, but I just wanted to clarify because mass shootings are also in the news.
[1]https://www.statista.com/statistics/811504/mass-shooting-vic...
By some measures (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_th...) - this year there are ~1.8 per day.
So you're about twice as likely to be killed by a car in daylight as a pedestrian as you are to be killed in a mass shooting.
Your point stands. I overestimated.
While it’s possible and maybe even likely that I overrate my own driving ability, I’ve never been in an accident in 20+ years and drive in a paranoid, defensive, assume-everyone-is-crazy style that I feel must push the statistics in my favor quite a bit.
So despite statistics I tend to worry more about other things. I also have a hard time with my 3 year old daughter being driven by others unless I’ve seen their driving firsthand. There are people I know who I flat out won’t allow to drive her and it has created some awkward situations. I will also only let her go in an Uber/taxi if there’s no other option.
We have those viruses and diseases too, you know.