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Alicorn comments on Is a Purely Rational World a Technologically Advanced World? - Less Wrong Discussion

-3 Post author: tygorton 20 May 2012 04:40AM

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Comment author: Alicorn 20 May 2012 05:56:48PM 1 point [-]

The peak death rate by motor vehicle peaked at 269 per million in 1970. The motorization of ambulances alone saves far more than one in a thousand.

This is a good statistic and I am pleased to have learned it.