US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software after fatal crash

Fatalities per passenger mile driven is the only statistic that would matter. I actually doubt this figure differs much, either way, from the overall fleet of vehicles.

This is because "inattentive driving" is _rarely_ the cause of fatalities on the road. The winner there is, and probably always will be, Alcohol.

> The winner there is, and probably always will be, Alcohol.

I'd imagine mobile device use will overtake alcohol soon enough

Distracted driving cost 3308 lives in 2022 [1].

Alcohol is at 13384 in 2021 [2].

Although you're right that alcohol does claim more lives, distracted driving is still highly dangerous and isn't all that rare.

[1] https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/distracted-driving

[2] https://www.nhtsa.gov/book/countermeasures-that-work/alcohol...

They do a disservice by not further breaking down distracted driving by age. Once you see it that way it's hard to accept that distracted driving on it's own is the appropriate target.

Anyways.. NHTSA publishes the FARS. This is the definitive source if you want to understand the demographics of fatalities in the USA.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/research-data/fatality-analysis-report...

Mobile devices have been here for 40 years. The volume of alcohol sold every year suggests this overtake point will never occur.