Re:A Tragic Loss
by semi-extrinsic on Thursday June 30, 2016 @05:39PM
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Ford sells 6-7 million cars each year, so there's going to be close to 100 million Fords driving around globally. There's a little over 100 000 Teslas. So since there is 1000x as many Fords, and assuming every Ford is just as safe as a Tesla, you quite literally get thousands of fatalities a year.
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Re:A Tragic Loss
by stcredzero on Thursday June 30, 2016 @05:51PM
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assuming every Ford is just as safe as a Tesla, you quite literally get thousands of fatalities a year.
Which is about right.
According to wikipedia there were 32,675 fatalities in 2014.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i..., around 10 fatalities per 100,000 population.
The CDC data with comparison to other ways people die in the US is at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm
Table 28 of http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus15.pdf#019 is relevant to this discussion