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Originally Posted by jkoral
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I'm shocked there are people that really don't want to drive their cars.
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X2, look at the facts and make a decision based on it.
Guessing there have been less than 30 deaths caused by the airbags over a few years but over 30,000 die each year in car accidents in the U.S.?
If the Takata odds scare you then based on the overall numbers you should never drive any car unless absolutely necessary (regardless of the airbags).
EDIT from a quick search -
http://richmond.legalexaminer.com/de...aths-mounting/
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Takata airbags have been recalled in approximately 25 million vehicles worldwide, and at least 12 deaths have been attributed publicly to the defective airbags. I say “publicly” because there have been confidential settlements, which may have been kept from the public.
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So far less than one in a million.
http://www.nsc.org/NSC%20Images_Corp...ng-graphic.jpg
Considering lifetime odds of dying in a car accident are 1 in 112 and lifetime odds of dying from contact with bee's, wasps, or hornets is 1 in 55,764, the less than 1 in a million for the airbags doesn't scare me.
One more fun fact -
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Falling coconuts cause 150 human deaths every year on average, that's 30 times more than sharks.
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