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Re:The Fight for the “Right to Repair” by afarrell on Thursday July 14, 2016 @09:38AM (#12093614)
> 99.9999% of the time

There are 109,277 workers in the US who drive to work and back on their own[1]. 6 nines means a quandry once every 10 weekdays...which I guess is actually pretty rare all things considered. Okay carry on.

[1] page 7 of https://www.census.gov/hhes/commuting/files/2014/acs-32.pdf

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Re:The Fight for the “Right to Repair” by mikeash on Thursday July 14, 2016 @09:54AM (#12093761)
Er, that number is in thousands. It's 109 million.

But I'm talking about crashes, not normal drives. I think ethical considerations will be one-in-a-million events for crashes, not for normal drives.

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