It’s an older article, but the point stands!

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    If you include non-fatal injuries, cars would be like way, WAY more dangerous than a train or plane.

    Better yet, include people outside of a car who’s been injured or killed by one, and those numbers would be astronomical.

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      10 months ago

      Higher yes. Astronomical? I dunno.

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        Well, around 40,000 people die because of motor vehicles in the US per year.

        But the national safety council reported over 5.4 million “medically consulted injuries”.

        That’s a lot of extra people that could be added to those stats.

        I can’t even imagine the global economic impact of car related death and injuries. In the US, it’s around a trillion dollars a year. Imagine if that money was spent on safer forms of transportation.

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          10 months ago

          Sure but a lot of those are things like whiplash etc.

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            Wiplash can leave you paralyzed or suffer a lifetime of neurological impairment, though.

            But in addition to whiplash injuries, you’re looking at broken bones, brain and spine damage, loss of limbs, facial disfigurement, burns, etc.

            It doesn’t go from minor injury to death when it comes to car crashes. There’s an entire spectrum of injuries in the middle.

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              10 months ago

              Sure. My point was about injuries outside vs inside the car.

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          Sure. I’m just not sure about the astronomical description.

          Genuinely curious if someone can do the math.