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hluskayesterday at 6:04 PM1 replyview on HN

Not at all. Demonstrating that miles driven increases pedestrian deaths would be tremendously useful.


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Karrot_Kreamyesterday at 6:47 PM

? The correlation is trivially demonstrable. You can probably ask an agent to pull the relevant datasets for a state, run a linear regression, and demonstrate this. It's the entire reason traffic crash statistics in the US are normalized per mile.