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Re:Cancer-Linked Chemicals Manufactured by 3M Are Turning Up... by darpa_escapee on Monday November 05, 2018 @03:03PM (#18385440)
To put this number into perspective, there are roughly ~30k automobile related fatalities in the US each year.

HN tends to glorify self-driving vehicles because they might put a dent into that statistic. I wonder why that concern doesn't apply to drinking water.

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Re:Cancer-Linked Chemicals Manufactured by 3M Are Turning Up... by graeme on Monday November 05, 2018 @03:15PM (#18385528)
In fairness, the cancer odds were lifetime. So would would have to divide that hypothetixal by 80 or so to compare to annual car deaths: 750
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