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dhaivatpandya on April 17, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lyft gaining on Uber as it spends big on growth

Although the author may not have provided a citation for the claim, this has pretty much nothing to do with "life experience"? Roughly speaking, if you have a certain likelihood of knowing someone that dies in a car accident in a given year and every year of your life is somehow independent, it is not inconceivable that (most) people by the age of 50 know someone killed by a human-driven. car.

nsgi on April 18, 2016 | [–]

Also, deaths in car accidents are decreasing, so older people are likely to have known more people that died in car accidents in their youth than younger people today.

justincormack on April 17, 2016 | [–]

Depends on how many people you know and geographical distribution of accidents. It might be the case or it might not.

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