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Apart from the obvious reasons (more cars, more “driving culture”), there appears to be a broader factor: Americans tend to suffer accidental deaths at much higher rates than other countries across a whole spectrum of different areas.Some of those areas you understand intuitively: more cars, more road deaths. More guns, more accidental shootings, etc. But Americans seem to suffer from more everything deaths than other countries, so there is probably a broader factor at work.I am not sure what it might be (not really my field), but I have always wondered if Americans are just way less risk averse than other countries. You see so many TV shows in America celebrating regular people attempting stupid and risk stunts (and, not surprisingly, many of them end up dead). There is just a much greater general culture of risk taking and risk acceptance.

You don’t. They aren’t liable to accept every ride.There are lots of good reasons why they may have decided to cancel your ride.Here are just a few:They looked at your rating and decided that they didn’t want to risk accepting you as a passenger.This one is related to the first. They have driven you before and don’t want to repeat the experience. Any uber driver who sticks with it for a while has faced this situation.This is also related to the first. You have a reputation with drivers in the area, and they have warned each other about you. Definitely happens.They were driving in a high traffic area that was in surge and they could tell that you walked out of surge area just so you could save the fee. I know it sucks as the passenger, but they don’t have to give up surge rides to go pick you up.This is related to the last one. You are in a surge zone, but you pushed your pin just outside the zone. Then you sent them a text saying, “Oh I’m really at XXXXX”. They cancelled you because you misrepresented yourself and wasted their time.You tried to put more people in their car than they are legally able to carry.You caused problems or were rude when they stopped to pick you up.They didn’t feel comfortable for whatever reason picking you up.The most common one - you took too long to respond when notified that your uber had arrived.Bottom line - uber drivers are driving their own vehicle, and they get to make some of their own decisions as to who gets a ride in their vehicle.

Many astronauts are military officers, and are typically insured under SGLI (servicemembers group life insurance). For the non-military astronauts, I assume there's a comparable risk-accepting government life insurance program.