Re:The most dangerous car in America is...
by jasontraff on Tuesday June 14, 2011 @03:02PM
(#2654262)
I wondered about this too. The other part is -- how much is a car driven. Even if you look at behavior, is a 350z that much safer than a Porsche 911? Or is it just that 350z are driven [X] number of times more often, in the same manner, and thus result in a much higher death rate.
For example, are there other, stronger predictors of deadly accidents such as age, geography, or occupation? And are those people more likely to buy certain cars? I notice Buick has fewer deaths per million, but could that be because Buick attracts more cautious or less frequent drivers?
I assume the IIHS has competent statisticians. But I'd still be interested to see how strongly the differences between drivers factor into this.