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Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag by stellar678 on Thursday April 25, 2019 @12:50AM (#19745073)
It’s funny you mention 99.99% - because 40,000 people are killed by car crashes in a year in the United States, which is actually .012% of the population. So cars actually do a bit worse than your stat...
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Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag by iamaelephant on Thursday April 25, 2019 @01:09AM (#19745174)
Yes this makes perfect sense if every person in USA took one car journey in a year.
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Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag by maxxxxx on Thursday April 25, 2019 @12:52AM (#19745084)
If a majority of the population used a rocket daily then the numbers would be different. The number of people killed per space flight is probably a little higher than the number if people killed per drive in a car.
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Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag by cperciva on Thursday April 25, 2019 @01:03AM (#19745143)
Per trip, not per year.
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