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I would love to see the numbers you pulled out of thin air for your statement on deaths caused by software. I've met at least one developer who quit the profession because they were writing code that "would probably lead to someone's death."

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> they were writing code that "would probably lead to someone's death"

Versus cars, where I'd be shocked if there's a single mass-produced model that hasn't killed someone.

As of 2015, there were 9 car models without recorded deaths - https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/record-9-models-have-...

I'm not sure how statistically significant the numbers are, but it's something!

If I'm reading this correctly, those cars nave no "driver deaths" that means, that no one has died while driving those cars. This is a bit like a shotgun, which has potentially killed many people, but has not killed its owner.

Imagine if everyone was only allowed to drive those 9 car models.

I'm a pedestrian. I don't drive. I'm sure the cars don't have air bags on their bumpers.

Actually some Volvos do have pedestrian air bags!

(But your point still stands, of course.)

Then there would be deaths. The stats are skewed significantly towards vehicles of which there are more of so you'd always have to discount this figure by how many vehicles there were of that type to begin with and to be even more accurate how many passenger miles were driven with those vehicles.

More complete driver death rate statistics can be found here.

http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/driver-death-rates

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