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Toyota Accelerator Data Skewed Toward Elderly

Posted by kdawson on from the make-of-it-what-you-will dept.

An anonymous reader passes along this discussion on the data for the Toyota accelerator problem, from a few weeks back. (Here's a Google spreadsheet of the data.) "Several things are striking. First, the age distribution really is extremely skewed. The overwhelming majority are over 55. Here's what else you notice: a slight majority of the incidents involved someone either parking, pulling out of a parking space, in stop and go traffic, at a light or stop sign... in other words, probably starting up from a complete stop."

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  1. TFD (The Friggen Data) does not account for.. by w0mprat · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Many many things already pointed out so far.

    This is naughty even, TFA & TFS indirectly claim something that the data does not support.

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