Thanks for your feedback,
Thanks for your feedback, Nick. We can answer two of your questions. Deaths are used as the metric because in America every vehicle-related death results in a comprehensive police investigation and report that is sent to NHTSA. Collisions are not always recorded, in fact most are not, so the data set would be incomplete. A death of anyone would include pedestrians and it is hard to pin a pedestrian death on a powertrain. Driver deaths specifically are looked at because NHTSA, IIHS, and HDLI conclude every vehicle crash involves a driver, but not every fatal crash involves a passenger. It is the decision that the safety agencies made regarding such reporting, so we can only work with the data available. Be well.