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I'd much rather be on a road where cars are driven by something that makes predictable, calculated decisions and can actually make sense of some of the more impenetrable roundabouts, and don't do things like perform sudden, impromptu illegal u-turns, last minute lane changes, lean on the horn when they feel minorly inconvenienced, or otherwise make driving utterly hellish.

The worst part about driving for me is definitely the other drivers. It's why I can't do it.

Part of the problem with statistics like this is that they frequently rely on "deaths of people who drink alcohol" rather than "deaths of people directly due to alcohol". It's just a consequence of trying to do health statistics on any kind of large populations. So if someone drinks alcohol, then has an accident while sober, they will frequently still count as being alcohol related.

If a person who drinks catches Hepatitis C from a bad tattoo and dies from hepatitis, it will still count as an alcohol related death.

If a person who drinks has a heart attack, it still counts as being an alcohol related death. Cancer and drink alcohol? Alcohol related death. And so on...

It is impossible to truly quantify these deaths in order to come up with a number of "people who wouldn't have died if it wasn't for alcohol" because there is no way of really measuring how many of those people wouldn't have gotten any of these illnesses anyway, and you can't measure if they would have survived illnesses if there weren't complications related to alcohol.

It's a common problem with public health statistics like this.