When you find the correlation between drivers of manual transmission vehicles and our higher per capita death rate, you're onto something, until then, not so much.No, my position was that maybe a system that allows people to drive a manual, having been taught to drive and tested for your licence in an automatic may be a contributory factor to the higher level of deaths in the US than the UK or Australia. I do not know if that is the case or not. Even if it is there will be many other causal factors as I am pretty sure it will not be a simple matter.
But it seems you are certain the testing regime isn't a factor, which means you must know what the cause of the difference is. Please feel free to explain what the underlying causes are and point to the academic research that identified them.
We have higher speeds in lots of areas, we have lower inspections that have to be passed, we have lots of fast cars, lots of shitty roads, lots of shitty drivers, lots of places with icy roads, etc. We also have a very low comparative average of manual transmission equipped vehicles on the roads. Go find another tree to bark up, the coon done left that one.