Re:America’s Cars Are Getting Faster and More Efficient
by refurb on Thursday May 18, 2017 @06:30PM
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Interesting stat. 1 death for every 1 million miles. If the average person drives 12,000 miles per year for say 60 years (18 to 80, yes it's over estimating), that's 720,000 miles driven. That would infer your chance of dying in an auto accident is ~70% over a lifetime.
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Re:America’s Cars Are Getting Faster and More Efficient
by valuearb on Thursday May 18, 2017 @07:02PM
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Oops! It was 100 million miles, not 1 million miles, my mistake.
Re:America’s Cars Are Getting Faster and More Efficient
by refurb on Thursday May 18, 2017 @08:18PM
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That makes more sense. So your chance of dying in an auto accident is 0.7% over your lifetime.
It's probably less than that since I'm sure the average fatality per accident is >1.
Re:America’s Cars Are Getting Faster and More Efficient
by valuearb on Saturday May 20, 2017 @05:08PM
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Our odds are likely many times better than that. Deaths per 100MM are provably going to be cut in half over the next few decades, if not more. Automated driving assistants alone will do that, even without fully automated cars.