On 11/25/11 12:02 , Jay Hennigan wrote:
On 11/25/11 11:34 AM, Joel jaeggli wrote:
Cars generically cause at lot more deaths than faulty traffic controllers 13.2 per 100,000 population in the US annually.
The cars don't (often) cause them. The drivers do. Yes, there are the rare mechanical failures but the most likely cause is wetware. Ditto airplane crashes. A mild example:
while they may well have otherwise been runover by an oxcart in the absence of automobiles, if they we're behind the wheel of a complex 2 ton machine there would be no accident.
http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20001212X18632
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