[cscurmudgeon]

Do you think it is remotely plausible that:

P(causing death | minor violation ) > P(causing death | ~ minor violation)

Also:

P(reckless driving | without cops) > P(reckless driving | cops)

Here let me one step further and present data:

> California to Stop Towing, Impounding Vehicles of Unlicensed Drivers

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/california-impounding-...

"According to a study conducted by the California Department of Motor Vehicles, unlicensed drivers are almost three times more likely to cause a fatal crash than licensed drivers."

https://www.berginjurylawyers.com/blog/auto-accident/unlicen...

Is NYTimes so journalistically lazy/corrupt that they couldn't connect two obvious pieces of facts?

[mmmpop]

I don't know and I'm not participating in this conversation further because of your stealth edit for the NYT piece. Also you're making what I perceive to be a bad-faith argument which was reinforced by your altering your original post in a significant way without saying as much.

[cscurmudgeon]

> I don't know and I'm not participating in this conversation further because of your stealth edit for the NYT piece

> by your altering your original post in a significant way without saying as much.

Lol, providing more examples is altering "in a significant way"?

I disagree but, hey, you found an out.

[halffaday]

Yes.

I think the opinion NYT is programming into their readers is that normal people owning the means of private transportation is bad. The particular facts or coherence of the argument is immaterial.

Just believe the opposite of whatever Pravda says and you’ll be a’ight.