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		andyl on June 28, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SpaceX – Launch Vehicle Failure Over a 10 year period 2003->2013: 2,395,000 car fires causing 4,050 deaths and 13,215 injuries roughly: 656 fires and one death every day http://www.nfpa.org/research/reports-and-statistics/vehicle-...

arrrg on June 28, 2015 [–]

This data is valuable but also slightly I'll-fitted for this purpose.

How many relatively recently sold modern gasoline vehicles in a similar category to the Tesla catch on fire? That's the proper number for the comparison.

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