Very interesting. Thanks for the insight.

Just curious, what did you do in Iraq? Like were you a tank commander or a cook or a logistics officer or something?

I was born in 1996 so I didn't really understand what was going on in the middle east at the time we invaded.

What's even the point of the VA? I've only ever heard bad things

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Yeah, Kent, Bellevue, and Seattle are three entirely distinct cities.

Seattle is relatively normal, Bellevue is almost entirely inhabited by millionaires and wealthy Chinese exchange students, and Kent is where you live if Tapout tshirts and monster energy drinks are a daily part of your life.

I would imagine happiness does not equal how much you make, but happiness equals how much you make compared to last year.

If you're always improving your earnings, you'll be happy. But if you went from $100k to $75k, that would undoubtedly induce a lot of stress and unhappiness.

Seattle-Bellevue having a better ratio than Wenatchee, Walla Walla, and Tacoma is kinda funny.

The first two aren't exactly expensive towns, but they are minor tourist and vacation spots.

Tacoma though... Nobody wants to live in Tacoma.

The problem is that OP is comparing two different things.

One is the sum of all deaths year round, the other is a single event that lasts for a few hours to a few days at most.

The other problem is exposure. Most people drive every day, but most people aren't in a natural disaster every day.

It's just a bad way to compare data.

I did, and it does not show up.

I'm guessing it's something to do with dark mode vs light mode and the key being in a transparent part of the image.

Like I said, extremely slim

And don't forget time exposed.

Most people spend ~31,000 minutes (2 hour total commute, 5 days a week) in a car in one year.

Most people spend 0 minutes per year in a natural disaster.

Not only that, but cars are extremely useful, natural disasters are not.

Numerous people in the comments section have already made the mistake of thinking all the sections are based on last year's figures. And if that were the case it would paint natural disasters in a far worse light compared to cara... Which is why it's misleading.

Your chances of dying in a car are extremely slim. It's comparable to your chances of dying by suicide. Not exactly a "death zone".

None are all time accumulated.

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OP, I am curious to know which tools you used for the infographic.

Data and story aside, the visuals are really nice.

It's a good graphic visually, but the data comparison had too much cherry picking for it to be a good infographic overall.

And the fact that it's about a very hot topic debate (at least within Reddit, where users typically have a very hostile aggressive stance towards car ownership) just makes me think it's pushing an agenda at the cost of accuracy.

...no?

Think of it this way: Would you compare all tornado deaths in 2022 to the worst hurricane of all time? Probably not, because that's a bad way to compare two things.

Also, a car is much, much, MUCH less dangerous than any of these. Would you rather spend five minutes in a flood or five minutes in a car? The only reason cars are so high is because we spend 100,000x more time in a car than we do in an active natural disaster. Not to mention cars benefit us by transporting us, while there aren't a whole lot of upsides to natural disasters.

Also, you are awfully rude.

I understand the point, and using an apples to oranges comparison is disingenuous.

Yeah, the worst hurricane had ~10k deaths. The chart only shows 2k.

There are already a lot of comments pointing out the flaws in this infographic, and it seems like OP let an agenda get in the way of using accurate information.

This infographic is misleading.

Comparing the worst event of a particular category to the summation of all events in another is not a good comparison at all, and is misleading.

A better comparison would be to compare the worst car crash in history to the worst tornado in history.

Or, if you want to continue using running totals, just use the total number of tornado deaths in 2022 compared to the total number of automotive deaths in 2022.

This is why people make fun of redditors

That's the most generic song I've ever heard

Sorry I don't speak peasant

People finally realized riding the bus sucks.

It's not for lack of trying.