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hluska 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs

Not at all. Demonstrating that miles driven increases pedestrian deaths would be tremendously useful.

Karrot_Kream 3 months ago [–]

? The correlation is trivially demonstrable. You can probably ask an agent to pull the relevant datasets for a state, run a linear regression, and demonstrate this. It's the entire reason traffic crash statistics in the US are normalized per mile.

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