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If I drive 1 trip per day, a 0.1% chance of death on each trip means I would only survive 3 years on average. And I take more than 1 trip per day. Most people live much more than 3 years, so the risk is certainly less than 0.1% per trip.

Let's calculate it. There were 42,915 traffic deaths in the US in 2021.[1]

Americans take 411 billion trips per year.[2]

That's 42915/411000000000 = 0.00001% chance of death per trip. So a driving trip is 10000x safer than being swatted.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...

[2] https://www.bts.gov/statistical-products/surveys/national-ho...



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