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Airbags save around 2,000 people per year in the US. That means each person has a .0005% chance of needing it each year. That's not "very common".
by ars 5y ago
Airbags save around 2,000 people per year in the US. That means each person has a .0005% chance of needing it each year.
That's not "very common".
- thanhhaimai 5y ago2000 seems really low. Do you happen to have a source for it?
- ars 5y agohttps://www.nhtsa.gov/equipment/air-bags https://www.nhtsa.gov/equipment/air-bags It's actually less: 1,681/year over 30 years, although it seems like it went up toward the end of the range, so I wrote 2,000.
- google234123 5y ago2.5 million burglaries occurr every year and FBI claim that about 68 thousand cases of injuries resulted from that. Source: https://www.alarms.org/burglary-statistics/ https://www.alarms.org/burglary-statistics/ (FBI says 1 million burglaries) https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-2016/topic-pages/tables/table-15 https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
- cshokie 5y agoThat accounts for deaths prevented but does not credit any injuries avoided or made less severe. Those are going to be some multiple of deaths.