In NYC there are 250 traffic fatalities per year with 1 million daily drivers

There are 10 murders in the subway per year with 2 million daily riders

The cars are WAY more dangerous and it’s not even funny. Plus cars cause 50,000 injuries per year. The amount of money we waste on cars is insane.

Yes, i know that the subway is way safer than driving. The post i was responding to, however, does not.

I'm pretty sure one of the properties of cars is that they can catch on fire (due to all that gasoline, which is famously flammable), so I don't think you should start driving if you want to avoid burning to death

Cars are mostly dangerous to other people, less so to the people inside of them. Especially at inner-city speeds.

(Well, at least when you like at direct injury. People inside the cars might have long running health effects from insufficient exercise.)

Even as a car occupant, you’re still significantly likelier to die in a crash than you are riding the subway. In NYC — but also basically anywhere else, at any time of day.

Being on a subway, regardless of the parent poster's sarcastic point about "only" one person being burned to death, is far safer than driving.

This very simple conclusion does not require an "ethical" statistics class, and you are being disingenuous and rude in your post. Have you considered reading HN's posting guidelines?