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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
Once upon a time I mathed out the odds of becoming a highway fatality; found the data for fatalities/miles travelled, and whatnnot.
The odds of becoming a highway fatality are something like thus: you'd have to drive 24/7 for like 350,000 years before your number comes up.
This is what's causing a major national freak-out?
If someone wants to math it again to validate/correct, great. I ain't doing it again, felt like it was ignored/disbelieved the first time anyway.
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I'm getting that it would take ~350 years driving 24/7 at 35mph to die, on average. Roughly, there's a one in ten thousand chance that someone will die in a car accident each year they drive. Course, given the difference in behavior behind the wheel, I'm pretty sure this can vary widely from person to person.