Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by LorenPechtel 876 days ago
Yup. Miles driven actually have little impact on accidents. Rather, it's interactions that matter. Miles of you all going down the same freeway at about the same speed involve almost no interactions.

(This is also why airplane fatalities bear little relationship to the flight time--because they're mostly takeoff and landing. Accidents when you're peacefully up at cruise altitude are rare.)