The quote is from an ambulance chaser site...

According to the National Safety Council (NSC), an American’s lifetime odds of dying in a car crash are 1 in 107 as of 2019.

  • ShitPosterior [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Wow, that's alot higher than I'd have expected. Weird how automobile deaths are totally normalized in this country.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Weird how automobile deaths are totally normalized in this country.

      I saw the stat in a unsourced tweet so I had to google it. I couldn't quite believe it. I knew the stat was high but I just couldn't quite accept that it was that high. I thought whoever gave the stat screwed up and maybe the real number was something like 1 in 307.

      Rant: Unsourced stuff really annoys me.

      • ShitPosterior [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        Good on you for double checking and being skeptical though, so much easier to just hard code that shit into your brain as a new fact

        • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          just hard code that shit into your brain as a new fact

          My wetware is bad enough. The last thing I need to do is add new bugs due to my laziness.