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- From: turner@ssdt-tempe.sps.mot.com (Robert Turner)
- Subject: Re: Subjective Safety Measure(Re: man-rating)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.145918.3604@newsgate.sps.mot.com>
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- References: <1993Jan7.152456.25477@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1993Jan7.181829.13714@cs.ucf.edu> <1993Jan7.204434.16621@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 14:59:18 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan7.204434.16621@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan7.181829.13714@cs.ucf.edu> clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke) writes:
- >>The rating of transportation system safety by fatalities per
- >>passenger mile always struck me as bogus. Subjectively, what
- >>matters is the probability of exit. That is if I climb in and
- >>close the door, what are my chances of opening the door and
- >>climbing out. By this measure the STS is only about 1 in 50,
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- Isn't the elevator considered the safest mode of transportation meeting both the
- "if I get in, I get out" and "deaths per passenger mile".
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- Robert
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