Mike Ey, Microsoft HoloLens designer, killed in hit and run

Re:Mike Ey, Microsoft HoloLens designer, killed in hit and run by powertower on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @07:00PM (#9148335)

The number of cars in the US is something like 10 times of the number of cars in the UK.

Also you have to consider a bunch of other variables such as the difference in the traveling distances between work, home, and play.

And take into consideration things such an increase of X in volume of traffic might increase deaths by kX. With k being 2 or 5 or 10.

And then the gap narrows.

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Re:Mike Ey, Microsoft HoloLens designer, killed in hit and run by timthorn on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @07:20PM (#9148445)

Fair point - so taking the proportion of road deaths related to drink as the measure instead (which should control for your points to a great recent), 31% of US deaths are drink related, compared to 15.2% in the UK. (according to https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...).

Not the 10x difference, but still 2x.

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