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GO username or email address. Forgot your password? Remember Me Remember Me. Don't have a DriversEd. Sign Up. About It is hard to determine exactly how many people drive in the US. Some people may choose to not drive due to health reasons. Based on data, Part of the reason the percentage is higher for female licensed drivers is related to life expectancy. In a younger age bracket, ages up to 24, that ratio becomes the opposite. It is estimated there are about 1.
It is nearly impossible to determine how many licensed drivers there are in the world because different countries enforce driving differently. Some third-world countries may not enforce licensing or testing very much, or at all. The total number of drivers in the world is easier to determine than the number of licensed drivers in the world.
If you need to know how many Uber drivers there are, Uber claims 5 million worldwide as of the 4th quarter of Drivers are in 69 countries. The Ride Share Guy estimated there were between 1. Cnet estimated 1 million Uber drivers in the US in Business Insider claimed there were , Uber drivers in the US in Ride sharing declined significantly with the impact of coronavirus but seems to be recovering.
It has been claimed that there are , Lyft drivers in the United States and 1. CNet cites a report of 1. This is projected at 2,, by Vote count:.
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NHTSA, Want more data? Aspiring Drivers Weigh Automotive Revolution. Driving Fatalities Learn the main reasons that cause deadly motor vehicle crashes. SaferAmerica, In , there were 33, police-reported fatal motor vehicle crashes, resulting in 36, deaths. SaferAmerica, Road traffic crashes cause up to 50 million injuries globally each year. WHO, The number of annual road traffic deaths has reached 1. In in Canada, there were 1, motor vehicle fatalities, up 3.
Transport Canada, More than people die each year and nearly 2, are injured as a result of vehicles running red lights. IIHS, In , 6, passenger vehicle occupants died in rollover crashes. IIHS, In , the rollover rate of SUVs in fatal crashes was This rate exceeds the rollover rates in fatal crashes of all other common types of motor vehicles: cars, pickup trucks, vans, large trucks, and buses. IIHS, In In , there were 5.
These were the lowest rates since the early s. Transport Canada, In Canada, in , there were 4. In , there were 4. This represents an average of 49 road deaths per one million inhabitants. By this measure, the European Union's roads are the safest in the world. European Commission, Fatalities by Location Death rates from road traffic accidents are three times higher in low-income countries than in high-income countries. There were worker fatalities. Federal Railroad Administration, [SL1] In , there were 2, vehicle crashes at railroad crossings, including fatalities and injuries.
These figures are down sharply from , when there were 9, crashes at railroad crossings, including fatalities and 3, injuries. Operation Lifesaver, In , bicyclist deaths occurred about equally in rural and urban areas. IIHS, Among fatal large truck crashes in , FHWA, In , Only 1. FMCSA, IIHS, In crashes of large trucks in , 4, people were killed. Some crashes involved both a tractor-trailer and a single-unit truck. IIHS, Occupant deaths in large truck crashes per million truck miles traveled have declined substantially since In , the rates were 3.
By , these rates had declined to 0. However, IIHS, More than half of all road traffic deaths worldwide are among pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists. WHO, In , 5, motorcyclists were killed in crashes, more than double the number in IIHS, In , the number of motorcycle fatalities per mile traveled was nearly 29 times the number of car fatalities per mile traveled.
IIHS, Motorcycles account for only 0. IIHS, Supersport motorcycles have driver death rates about 4 times as high as that of cruisers and standards. Ninety percent of bicyclist deaths in were among those aged 20 and older. In every year since , many more male than female bicyclists were killed in crashes with motor vehicles. IIHS, Every year since , many more male than female bicyclists have been killed in crashes with motor vehicles.
Children of these ages had the second-highest pedestrian death rate in but the lowest in Pedestrians of these ages had the highest death rate every year since , although the gap between older pedestrians and those aged has narrowed considerably.
IIHS, Since , teenage crash deaths have decreased more among males than among females. IIHS, Fatalities by Age Globally, car accidents are the leading cause of death among young adults ages - and the ninth leading cause of death for all people. SaferAmerica, Road traffic crashes are the eighth leading cause of death for people of all ages. IIHS, In , children under 13 years of age were killed in motor vehicle accidents. Of these children, IIHS, In , motor vehicle crashes were the leading cause of death for female teenagers and the second leading cause after suicide of death for male teenagers.
Safe Kids Worldwide, Per mile driven, teen drivers ages 16 to 19 are nearly three times more likely than drivers aged 20 and older to be in a fatal crash. IIHS, In , the rate of pedestrian deaths per , population was highest for pedestrians ages Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, Sending or reading a text takes your eyes off the road for 5 seconds. At 55 mph, that's like driving the length of an entire football field with your eyes closed. AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, A study of 3, drivers' behavior in showed that these drivers engaged in potentially distracting activities during The most common distractions were interacting with an adult or teen passenger Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, Dialing a phone is one of the most dangerous distractions, increasing a driver's chance of crashing by 12 times.
Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, Reading or writing increased the risk of crashing by 10 times. Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, Driving while crying or visibly angry increased the risk of crashing by 10 times. Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, Using a hands-free electronic device is four times more distracting than talking to an adult passenger.
Driver's Alert, Child passengers can be 12 times more distracting to a driver than talking on a cell phone. One study found that the average parent driver took his or her eyes off the road for three minutes and 22 seconds during a minute trip. TeenSafe, Manual transmission vehicles double the chances of distracted driving crashes caused by food consumption. It took an average of 40 seconds to complete the programming of GPS navigation plus 13 more seconds for the brain to refocus after completing the task.
WIRED, Men are more likely than women to engage in distracting behavior; more than twice as many men as women watched a video.
Consumer Reports, Distracted driving in the US may be under-reported because many state crash-report forms don't have a field or code for many forms of distraction.
Driver Knowledge, Texting while driving increases the risk of crashing by 23 times. Only Missouri and Montana do not. Also, 24 states and Washington, DC ban the use of hand-held cell phones while driving. Governors Highway Safety Association, Texting increases your chances of rear-ending someone by a factor of 7. AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, The maximum amount of time that a driver can safely divert his or her attention from the road is two seconds.
It takes a driver an average of five seconds to send a text message. TeenSafe, Each day, 11 teens die in crashes caused by texting and driving. TeenSafe, In , Consumer Reports, Drunk Driving Statistics In , law enforcement agencies made nearly one million arrests for driving under the influence DUI. Three-fourths of those arrested were male. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Men are nearly twice as likely as women to have been intoxicated behind the wheel or involved in fatal motor vehicle traffic accidents.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Every day in America, another 30 people die in drunk driving crashes. That's one person every 48 minutes. IIHS, Among persons killed in motor vehicle accidents in , 1. A BAC of 0. IIHS, Among car drivers killed in motor vehicle accidents in , IIHS, Among drivers involved in fatal wrong-way crashes on divided highways in ,
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