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Originally Posted by SentraSE-R
More realistically, with 300 million people in the country, 1 out of every hundred is going to be injured in an auto accident every year. If you drive 50 years, you've got a 50%-50% chance of being injured in an accident. Would you rather have it happen in an 80s tin can, or in the newest whiz-bang car with all the current safety features?
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I think that's a bit simplistic. If someone really wanted to look at the difference in risk, I think it'd be better to compared fatality rates in 19xx when the average car was n years old to fatality rates in 20yy when the average car was m years old. Better yet, go over the fatality rate/accident rate case by case and see how they change w/ car type as well as driver profile, provided that info was available, which I doubt.
