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Originally Posted by Tcoat
NO! The Legacy is not the safest production car ever because it has a zero death rate. Death rate is not an indication of the safety of the car and can certainly not be used to compare one car to another. It is taking one number out of total context and applying it as a standard and that does not work. There is no control to this number that can be used to compare it to other cars. You would have to know the exact root cause of each accident and then break the deaths out into those causes to be able to make any comparison based on deaths. The variables are infinite and non comparable as a whole. There just is no science behind saying that X car is safer because there are less deaths no matter how obvious it seems on the surface. The reason that some cars are higher and some lower can be attributed more to the demographic of the drivers than the actual safety of the car. That is why insurance rates vary more by age, location and driving history than by what kind of car it is. Hell the value of the car plays more of a part in setting insurance rates than how many deaths there were.
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I respect your view on it.
However, just to put it out there again; some people go to church every Sunday expecting a promise rather than a covenant.
Personally, you might want to look at it solipsistically. Safe driving comes from within.