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2022-11-04 09:53:20 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

This tweet conflates the risk of subway deaths in 1 yr with lifetime risk of dying in a car. Using a common baseline in 2021 there were 8 deaths per 331M subway mi. traveled vs 1.33 deaths per 100M car mi. traveled Riding a mile on the subway was 1.82x riskier than in a car https://new.mta.info/agency/new-york-city-transit/subway-bus-ridership-2021 https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/early-estimate-2021-traffic-fatalities

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• This tweet conflates the risk of subway deaths in 1 yr with lifetime risk of dying in a car. Using a common baseline in 2021 there were 8 deaths per 331M subway mi. traveled vs 1.33 deaths per 100M car mi. traveled Riding a mile on the subway was 1.82x riskier than in a car https://new.mta.info/agency/new-york-city-transit/subway-bus-ridership-2021 https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/early-estimate-2021-traffic-fatalities