Monday, April 5, 2010

Toyota Accelerator Data Skewed Toward Elderly

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/04/05/0019227/Toyota-Accelerator-Data-Skewed-Toward-Elderly?art_pos=20
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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