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Originally Posted by Pinecone
How high of a risk are you willing to subject yourself and your family members to?
1 in a million? 1 in a billion?
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... The number of deaths per passenger mile on commercial airlines in the United States between 1995 and 2000 is about 3 deaths per 10 billion passenger miles.
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NHTSA documents 1.14 deaths per 100 million miles in 2009. That's road, not air. Feel free to round to 1.
Calculate your personal risk by dividing 100,000,000 by whatever happens to be the sum of your current and past odometers.
OTOH, every roadway death we hear about seems to involve a cell phone.
