Wednesday, March 10, 2010
“My back-of-the-envelope calculations (explained in a footnote below) suggest that if you drive one of the Toyotas recalled for acceleration problems and don’t bother to comply with the recall, your chances of being involved in a fatal accident over the next two years because of the unfixed problem are a bit worse than one in a million — 2.8 in a million, to be more exact. Meanwhile, your chances of being killed in a car accident during the next two years just by virtue of being an American are one in 5,244.” Robert Wright via rc3.org. I was pretty sure all this Toyota hysteria was just that. On the upside, it’s probably a great time to buy a Toyota.
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