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Let’s look at the actual numbers. Here is a link to one such comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16620968 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1662096
by jonathanyc 9y ago
Let’s look at the actual numbers. Here is a link to one such comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16620968 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16620968
- nightski 9y agoAre you really scaling off a single data point? I feel like you'd also have to compare the types of driving. What is the death per 100 million miles on a city street? If you exclude highway miles I'd imagine it's much worse.
- jonathanyc 9y agoIt is the only data we have. Ironically, one reason for the paucity of such data is that these companies have been so reluctant to make public their records—the reason this accident occurred in Arizona and not California is because Arizona has relaxed reporting requirements. And the commenter notes that extrapolating might not be wise. Are you really asserting your statements without any fact whatsoever?
- nightski 9y agoI did not assert anything other than that extrapolating a single data point doesn't really tell you anything and is pretty irrelevant.