Considering the average person drives 10,000 miles per year, that means the average person could live to 10,000 and not have a single crash.
> Humans are incompetent drivers
No, not really. Humans are actually such good drivers that computers have absolutely no chance of even coming close. Computer can't even stay running without crashing that long, never mind actually driving a car.
Considering the average person drives 10,000 miles per year, that means the average person could live to 10,000 and not have a single crash.
Your math is a little off. 100,000,000 / 526 is a crash every 190,000 miles. So every 19 years, not 10,000 years.
I guess I've been unlucky. In probably 500,000 miles of driving in my life, I've been rear-ended 3 times. Fortunately all at low speed, by distracted drivers, e.g. a mom with screaming small children.
That doesn't even count the time I tried to turn right from the left lane. It didn't end well for my car and was the only accident I was at fault for. And there were a few other accidents as well.
Perhaps "crash" is defined as including an injury? That makes the statistic more believable, because nobody ever got hurt in any of my misadventures. All my "crashes" just involved car body damage.
I didn't look into their methodology, but I would guess that crash was implicitly defined as reported crash. I've had a fair number of low speed collisions where we never bothered to report it.
> Humans are incompetent drivers
No, not really. Humans are actually such good drivers that computers have absolutely no chance of even coming close. Computer can't even stay running without crashing that long, never mind actually driving a car.