alt Hacker News> all of the rest of us know for a fact we’re above average drivers
The boring reality is that the vast majority of us are average, and average turns out to be pretty safe. The people causing multiple at-fault wrecks are not merely below average, they are way below average.
Sometimes wonder if all speed trap cops would make us safer if they mostly ignored speeding, drove unmarked cars, and all day long nabbed tailgaters making multiple aggressive lane changes.
That still leaves the bad or distracted drivers, but thankfully much of the time a little extra brakepad is enough to keep a defensive driver out of the body shop.