kevingoes

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“Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.” in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
[–] kevingoes@feddit.online 1 points 3 days ago

I'm starting with the man in the mirror
I'm asking him to change his ways
And no message could have been any clearer
If you wanna make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself and then make a change

Michael Jackson

Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] kevingoes@feddit.online 2 points 4 days ago

Thanks for checking! That was in fact a typo and I edited my comment to reflect it!

Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] kevingoes@feddit.online 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

From the linked article:

Since 1923, the mileage death rate has decreased 93% and now stands at 1.38 deaths per 100 million miles driven.

This is about 72,000,000 miles between motor vehicle deaths, not 500,000 miles.

According to this article https://driving-tests.org/driving-statistics/:

In 2022, there were 5,930,496 police-reported motor vehicle crashes (Source: https://driving-tests.org/driving-statistics/)

And

In 2022, there were 235,086,153 licensed drivers and 303,528,576 registered vehicles in the United States. These drivers drove a total of 3,196,191 million (i.e., over three trillion) vehicle miles that year. (NHTSA, August 2024) (Source: https://driving-tests.org/driving-statistics/)

Which is just over 500,000 miles between police reported crashes.

Edited to correct numbers as noted by comments!