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Re:Why we ignore thousands of daily car crashes by scoofy on Friday July 22, 2022 @01:03AM (#32188706)
Measure in “trips” not miles. Measuring in miles rewards suburban culture. Highway driving isn’t where deaths happen. They happen most on urban roads.
Re:Why we ignore thousands of daily car crashes by throwaway0a5e on Friday July 22, 2022 @08:18AM (#32191144)
Screw you both.

Measure butt-in-seat hours.

Re:Why we ignore thousands of daily car crashes by scoofy on Friday July 22, 2022 @11:07AM (#32192717)
That doesn’t count people who don’t get in a car wreck, simply because they walked to buy groceries
Re:Why we ignore thousands of daily car crashes by throwaway0a5e on Friday July 22, 2022 @11:09AM (#32192747)
Aren't we comparing drivers vs drivers here?

If we aren't then you're just measuring the fraction of the population that drives (which is largely a reflection of wealth and demographics) which isn't really a measurement of the safeness of the roads and driving.

Re:Why we ignore thousands of daily car crashes by scoofy on Friday July 22, 2022 @11:21AM (#32192914)
We’re talking about people killed trying to move around the place they live. Butt-in-seat hours is a fine way to measure automobile vs automobile stats, but when we’re talking about deaths from transportation, counting only automobile hours is silly. There are various ways to get around a city, and the way you do that hardly matters if it suits the purposes of that trip.