http://www.howwedrive.com/2008/11/26/but-they-are-safer-than-driving/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:57:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.howwedrive.com/2008/11/26/but-they-are-safer-than-driving/#comment-3161 mdf Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:56:34 +0000 http://www.howwedrive.com/?p=442#comment-3161 It strikes me as reasonable to think that getting in your car and driving 719 miles down the interstate is going to be a lot safer than driving 719 miles around a typical city. Is there any data that segments the risk of driving between city and highway? Near as I can tell, the usual sources for this information lumps it all together. And since a huge fraction of all driving is local, and city based, this may be skewing the risk ratio Sivak computes.

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