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You don't think the benefits that automobiles brought to the world are worth more than "2nd greatest engineering blunder"?

• billmalarky 9y ago
  I imagine ambulances save more lives than automobiles take.
  • amch 9y ago
    Seems pretty easy to quantify - it looks like there are ~37K motor vehicle deaths in a given year [0] and "Approximately 6.2 million patient transport ambulance trips occur annually." [1] Ambulances would need to save their passengers' lives <1% of the time for them to "break even" so to speak. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in_U.S._by_year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i... [1] https://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/nti/pdf/811677.pdf https://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/nti/pdf/811677.pdf
    • fenwick67 9y ago
      Many many ambulance trips are non-emergency. Even the emergency trips, it's difficult to say whether the person would have died if they didn't have an ambulance. Overall this would be pretty hard to quantify.