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by hinkley 3491 days ago
One in a million odds breaks down when you're talking about a population size of billions. A couple hundred cellphones every year catching on fire is still pretty noteworthy.
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If that's noteworthy, what does one call a class of product that causes >1.25 million deaths per year? (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic...)

Definitely worth fixing if it's not too hard/expensive, but probably not worth spending much time worrying about it.