&gt; Fatalities per vehicle mile or passenger mile, while still not telling the whole story, is a much better measure.<p>And says the same thing, that safety has continued to improve dramatically since 1960.<p>But fundamentally if population bound statistics are unfair in one direction, miles driven statistics are unfair in the opposite.<p>I picked the statistic which actually makes it hardest to prove my point, and still proved my point. If I used miles driven I&#x27;d prove my point even harder.