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Why focus on houses? SUVs drive into ground level shops and restaurants every single day. Places which tend to exists at ground level for accessibility reasons, and contain much more people than your average house.

https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/driver-crashes-through-gas-...

https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/car-into-kohls

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/vehicle-careens-into...

https://turnto10.com/amp/news/local/massachusetts-wrentham-v...

https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/video-shows-suv-crashing...

https://abcnews.go.com/US/dead-hospitalized-car-plows-dc-res...

https://www.gainsberglaw.com/blog/cars-crash-into-buildings-...

I could find thousands of these.

An airplane falling from the sky is far less likely to hit anyone than a car suddenly accelerating into a store because the driver is flooring the accelerator instead of the brake. These incidents are so common that they have an extensive wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_unintended_acceleration

You can find some numbers at https://www.storefrontsafety.org/statistics.html They claim this happens around 60 times a day.

parent prvit 4 years ago

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