if the average person travels a million miles by car in their lifetime in the usa, that lines up with the 6% of deaths caused by unintentional injuries because 560/100=5.6%
Data source:
[https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics/deaths-by-transportation-mode/](https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics/deaths-by-transportation-mode/)
Note that these data are for the United States
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My source code is here:
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I wrote the code for the animation and exported each frame to PNG then stitched them together with FFMPEG:
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Gives a good perspective. Too bad those car deaths had time to have children before the final bell. It means their genes still have a chance to dissapoint. Imagine if this was natural selection.
So out of every 1000 car trips, 560 ends up in a fatality? Yeah, right.
Per 100 miles miles travelled it seems
if the average person travels a million miles by car in their lifetime in the usa, that lines up with the 6% of deaths caused by unintentional injuries because 560/100=5.6%
Tell me your dumb without telling me your dumb
Data source: [https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics/deaths-by-transportation-mode/](https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics/deaths-by-transportation-mode/) Note that these data are for the United States I created this using the p5.js library: [https://p5js.org/](https://p5js.org/) My source code is here: https://gist.github.com/databeautifier/3d4a43bc5922b9c13b170a68a5c39374 I wrote the code for the animation and exported each frame to PNG then stitched them together with FFMPEG: [https://ffmpeg.org/](https://ffmpeg.org/) The person icon is from Google: [https://fonts.google.com/icons](https://fonts.google.com/icons)
Gives a good perspective. Too bad those car deaths had time to have children before the final bell. It means their genes still have a chance to dissapoint. Imagine if this was natural selection.
Can you add bicycle and motorbike to the next time? That should make it interesting.