Originally Posted by
explorer
that link is showing the total deaths per models, but it doesn't statistically show the percentage per volume sold. if i compute it right:
Toyota Avalon - 60 deaths (least deaths, but is that the safest?)
Ford F-Series - 238 deaths (most number of deaths, but is that the unsafest?)
let's see....there's no number of accidents per model recorded, so we have no choice but use the number of units sold per model:
toyota avalon - 30,000 units sold per year (my best guess, but i would beat it can hardly reach that figure)
ford f150 - 800,000 units sold per year
given the above data:
toyota avalon - 60 deaths / 30,000 units sold = 0.002 or 0.2%
ford f150 - 238 deaths / 800,000 units sold = 0.0002975 or 0.02975%
...so the ford f150 is 10 times safer (0.02975% vs. 0.2%) than the toyota avalon (which has the least number of deaths) if computed based on the number of units used (sold) assuming all the units sold have accidents and those presented deaths are true.
Methinks the Battle of Carthage scene in Russel Crowe's Gladiator (yr. 2000) is a homage to that...
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