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by KennyBlanken 1040 days ago
1)Absolute counts are meaningless given the wildly disproportionate population sizes. We're talking many orders of magnitude difference here. Cruise operates 100 vehicles during the day, 300 at night.

2)Absolute counts worldwide are meaningless when comparing against crashes in SF.

3)You picked an arbitrary period

4)Whether it makes the news is not reliable for statistical comparison. Millions of crashes go unmentioned. Many of them don't even result in a report to any officials.