By good driver I mean someone who knows the limits of their car, doesn’t gab on the cellphone when behind the wheel, exhibits solid defensive driving skills, etc…
You often see the highway death toll mentioned in the press during a holiday weekend, and the relevant “deaths per highway mile traveled” quoted alongside. But getting killed in a vehicle probably often is due to such factors as driving drunk, inattentiveness, speeding excessively/driving recklessly (just today I was cut off by a lemon yellow Mustang going 90 on my local turnpike), etc. Sure sometimes someone is caught in the wrong place at the wrong time (as was the case in Minnesota), and that is tragic, but even then they probably could have done something to save themselves if they had noticed what was going on in time (tho not in that specific case of course). I remember that out-of-control semi which jacknifed and slid sideways into a group of cars stuck in a traffic jam, but, if you were on the far outside lane at least, couldn’t you gun it into the grass if you saw him coming in your mirror? [I always leave myself several feet for emergency manuevering] Perhaps your chances of surviving to your destination are reasonably close to what it would be if you flew in an airplane instead, if you truly know what you are doing?