Hacker News Reader

"Driver Involvement Rates per 100,000 Licensed Drivers by Age Group, Sex, and Crash Severity", per the linked article.

The metric is useless in the first place, this is "per licensed drivers", not "per driver-miles".

It's a certainty that men drive more miles than women, primarily for job purposes. The NHTSA doesn't give enough data to determine this. My guess is that it's split almost exactly evenly per-mile, but who knows, without the data?

View on HN

I would wager (speculate) that if you account for miles driven that men would still cost a little bit more. Men seem to have a more impulsive nature on average. These days, the trick to being safe on the road is defensive driving. Minimize the number of risks and give extra padding to all actions to account for the potential of driver mistakes, including the mistakes of others.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com