"Daniel J. Stern" wrote:
>
> On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Garth Almgren wrote:
>
> > > I have looked online and sickened to see 40,000 plus people die every
> > > year. thats over 400,000 people in 10 years!
> >
> > That's actually not much, given how much we Americans drive. The NHTSA's
> > FARS front page places the fatality rate at 1.48 fatalities per
> > 100,000,000 vehicle miles traveled (2003), and that's the lowest it has
> > been roughly since the advent of the automobile.
>
> ...nevertheless, despite all the baseless "We're number one!"
> chestpounding, the US is only 10th-best and 16th-best in the world in
> deaths per vehicle-distance travelled and per vehicle registered,
> respectively (www.scienceservingsociety.com).

So you're saying that we need to kill more people? Can I pick?

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