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the road-death rate remains constant at 1.51 deaths per hundred million miles driven.

This stat isn't very helpful, or is it just me? To give it any sense of proportion, wouldn't we want to know how many drivers drove those miles, or how many total miles were driven? It just seems like a weird stat.

I thought so, too.

I would think a comparision in total population vs deaths by auto would've been better, with a percentage comparison on a year by year basis. (That's not said very well, but I'm not an English major or statistician, either....)

This stat isn't very helpful, or is it just me?

This stat is probably the only reliable stat possible. As soon as you widen the statistics to take other variables into account, you're getting into spin.

If you truly want to see highway stats improve, spend gasoline taxes on road repair and improvement itstead of the nonsensical BS these funds are being spent on now.

They say modern cars are safer. They aren't. The Viet Nam war gave us our improvement in safety figures, not seatbelts, speed limits or drunk driver enforcement.

You are much safer in a 1964 Chevy, even without your seatbelt on, than you are in any car built today.