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Re:Europe is investing heavily in trains by bytehowl on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @04:39AM (#31000078)
A better metric is deaths per unit of distance travelled. I don't have the numbers, though.
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Re:Europe is investing heavily in trains by Retric on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @05:03AM (#31000223)
I disagree, a car with 4 passengers is going to have far more deaths per billion miles than a car with 1 passenger, but the risks per passenger is about the same.

That’s why people use deaths per passenger mile to compare things.

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Re:Europe is investing heavily in trains by bytehowl on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @05:24AM (#31000366)
...That's what I have said? The only thing that could be unclear about my comment is that I have meant distance traveled per passenger, not per vehicle.
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