kevingoes

I'm starting with the man in the mirror
I'm asking him to change his ways
And no message could have been any clearer
If you wanna make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself and then make a change

Michael Jackson

Thanks for checking! That was in fact a typo and I edited my comment to reflect it!

From the linked article:

Since 1923, the mileage death rate has decreased 93% and now stands at 1.38 deaths per 100 million miles driven.

This is about 72,000,000 miles between motor vehicle deaths, not 500,000 miles.

According to this article https://driving-tests.org/driving-statistics/:

In 2022, there were 5,930,496 police-reported motor vehicle crashes (Source: https://driving-tests.org/driving-statistics/)

And

In 2022, there were 235,086,153 licensed drivers and 303,528,576 registered vehicles in the United States. These drivers drove a total of 3,196,191 million (i.e., over three trillion) vehicle miles that year. (NHTSA, August 2024) (Source: https://driving-tests.org/driving-statistics/)

Which is just over 500,000 miles between police reported crashes.

Edited to correct numbers as noted by comments!

From the article:

"We really are developing what I would consider a new class of vehicle," Kraus said. "We do something that's a little bit wild, which is we actually put a motor in the vehicle. So even though it's towed, it's also self-propelling. It's supporting its own drag and its own mass."