[William Tell]

Won't it be wonderful when Toyotas are just as safe as the Space Shuttle?

Nasa's safety record is that about 2% of space shuttles blow-up, killing all aboard.

Figuring about 10,000,000 Toyotas on the road in the U.S., that would mean we can look forward to about 200,000 blown up Toyotas.

[ArrogantBustard]

The Space Shuttle's safety record seems to be a 1% chance of catastrophic failure and 1% chance of catastrophic failure on reentry.

The combined safety record of Mercury, Gemini and Apollo is ZERO catastrophic failures in >20 flights.

IMO, catastrophic failure involves complete hull loss and loss of life.

[diogenes ghost]

"NASA's safety record is that about 2% of space shuttles blow-up, killing all aboard."

Nope....expect 3,333,333 exploding Toyotas.

Six shuttles built, two destroyed....so far.

Fully one third....great record.