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by afunctionof 1221 days ago
I would be interested in seeing a graph comparing the rate of automobile fatalities to the rate of public transit fatalities.
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I'm not sure what value there would be in that comparison. Cars and public transit are not filling the same role in society, regardless of how often that claim is made on HN. And that's completely ignoring the counterfactual of how mortality overall would change if we actually tried to make public transit fill all the roles cars have today.