the train death count is for Japan only, where rail ridership is around 20 billion per year...
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...I'm not sure what the equivalent stat is for # of people riding in cars in USA per year, but I imagine it's higher...
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...still, not so many orders of magnitude higher that it works out as a wash
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if we compare USA to USA (deaths per billion passenger miles): cars - 7.2 trains - 0.4 buses - 0.11 planes - 0.07
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Japan has fewer accidents than USA for rail, but waaaaay higher passenger-km count, so their fatality rate would be much lower
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