Are they? Just at a glance, there is about 1.35 deaths per 100 million vehicle miles traveled (VMT). Assuming I live a mile away from the grocery store, I will need to drive 2 miles round trip. That means I can be expected to be in a fatal accident after around 37 million round trips.

The safest plane on the list is the list is the Embraer E170. It has 0.03 deaths per million flights or one death every 33 million flights. So it’s actually more dangerous. And most people will be flying on Boeing 737s or Airbus A320s which are about 3-20x more dangerous per flight.

In any case, my takeaway is that people drive a lot so the denominator is pretty big. And if we remove driving drunk to the grocery store/driving there on NYE then driving is even safer.