> half agree with you, but if we're only talking about death and accident prevention it would be worth it to look at other highly developed countries that have much lower accident rates (there are quite a few that have much lower numbers, both per capita and per mile).

We live in an interesting time where it's an instinct to say 'Sure 45k people die each year from this, but how does that benchmark?'

Even if Germany had a 40x higher/lower rate than the US, why does it matter when people are still needlessly dying?