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Is that right? That seems phenomenally bad. I feel like I have normal American driving habits and I drive a standard 10k miles per year... So I'm going to kill
by arcticfox 6y ago
Is that right? That seems phenomenally bad. I feel like I have normal American driving habits and I drive a standard 10k miles per year...
So I'm going to kill a pedestrian every 100 years? Assuming I drive normally for ~50 years, 500k miles, I have a 50% chance to kill a pedestrian?
- dekhn 6y agoonly assuming a random naive model. how careful you are and how dangerous the location also matter.
- thotsBgone 6y agoYeah, but it's also only counting pedestrian deaths.
- vincentmarle 6y ago25%
- Dylan16807 6y agoDid they change the number? The comment says one pedestrian death per 200 million miles right now, which is in the right ballpark and gives you a chance of 0.25%
- dekhn 6y agoyes I updated the number. Sorry about that.
- akira2501 6y ago1 out of 6 traffic fatalities is a pedestrian. Roads are designed poorly, ice exists, cities are built on steep hills, and people walk at night on the side of county highways.