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==Explanation==
 
==Explanation==
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In this comic the couple [[Megan]] and [[Cueball]] want to rent a car. The [[:Category:Multiple Cueballs|Cueball-like guy]] from the {{w|car rental}} agency tells them they only have two vehicles available:
 
In this comic the couple [[Megan]] and [[Cueball]] want to rent a car. The [[:Category:Multiple Cueballs|Cueball-like guy]] from the {{w|car rental}} agency tells them they only have two vehicles available:
* One car that puts its occupants into mortal danger, so much such that it is called ''The Murder Car''. The danger, however, is abstract—the car is haunted by a {{w|ghost}}, and actual death befalls only "maybe one in six". (That is the equivalent of a round of {{w|Russian Roulette}}.) This is the fatality rate for drivers (in this case, Megan), while the rate for passengers is not mentioned.
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* One car that puts its occupants into mortal danger, so much so that it is called ''The Murder Car''. The danger, however, is abstract – the car is haunted by a {{w|ghost}}, and actual death befalls only "maybe one in six". (That is the equivalent of a round of {{w|Russian Roulette}}.) This is the fatality rate for drivers (in this case, Megan), while the rate for passengers is not mentioned.
* The other car, a regular {{w|Sedan (automobile)|sedan}}, has a defective {{w|GPS}} that incessantly gives instructions to go specifically to {{w|Seattle}}, regardless of the driver's intention to go there, and it cannot be turned off.
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* The other car, a regular {{w|Sedan (automobile)|sedan}}, has a defective {{w|GPS}} that incessantly gives instructions to go specifically to {{w|Seattle}}, regardless of the driver's intention to go there. And it cannot be turned off.
  
Megan believes she can ignore this and accepts the less lethal car. The comic suggests that driving with a GPS that tries to guide you to a different destination than that which you wish to visit—so it is always recalculating and asking you to do U-turns—is incredibly annoying. So annoying that given the choice between the persistent low-level annoyance of the GPS on one hand, and the ("low") probability of being murdered on the other, most people will choose the latter option. After all, they might survive murderous ghosts but they feel they will not survive long having to listen to the broken GPS.
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Megan believes she can ignore this and accepts the least lethal car. The comic suggests that driving with a GPS that tries to guide you to a different destination than that which you wish to visit – so it is always recalculating and asking you to do U-turns – is incredibly annoying. So annoying that given the choice between the persistent low-level annoyance of the GPS on one hand, and the ("low") probability of being murdered on the other, most people will choose the latter option. After all, they might survive murderous ghosts but they feel they will not survive long having to listen to the broken GPS.
  
According to the title text, the murderous ghosts haunt both cars, but as soon as the car starts driving and the GPS begins to drone on, even the ghost cannot stand listening to the broken GPS and stops possessing it.
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According to the title text, the murderous ghosts haunt both cars, but as soon as the car starts driving and the GPS begins to drone on, even the ghost cannot stand listening to the broken GPS and stops possessing it. It is possible that the title text is implying that the ghosts are actually responsible for the defective GPS, and by doing this, draw people into the only non-defective car available, the murder car.
  
Apart from the joke about GPS, this is also a subtle joke on the horrible cars one might get at a car rental service.
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Apart from the joke about GPS, there is also a joke on the horrible cars one might get at a car rental service...
  
It is also possible that the car rental service is trying to drive people away from the haunted car, which we can assume is just a normal car, to get more profit when people come back and take the "haunted" car when their GPS is broken.
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==Trivia==
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*With an estimated 1.25 million vehicular deaths globally in 2013[http://www.who.int/gho/road_safety/mortality/traffic_deaths_number/en/] and approx 53.7 million cars sold in the same year [https://www.statista.com/statistics/200002/international-car-sales-since-1990/], the number of fatalities per vehicle sold comes to be around 2.3% or about 1 in 43.5.
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** The above number is an intentionally misleading statistic. See [[1102: Fastest-Growing]]
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** (i.e. As of 2014, there were 253 million cars on the road in the US [http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-ihs-automotive-average-age-car-20140609-story.html] and only 32,675 deaths [https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/812246], giving a rate of fatalities per car of slightly over 0.01%, or 1 in 10,000)
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***That equates to a reduction in risk by a factor of 99.56% over the course of a single year, perhaps due to the development of several new collision-avoidance systems in 2013. [https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimgorzelany/2012/05/03/hottest-new-car-features-for-2013/]
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*The global number of haunted cars is not available, but believed to be at least five in number. [http://www.autoblog.com/2014/10/31/five-cursed-haunted-cars/]
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*Similarly, while the number of faulty car GPS devices is not available, Garmin recalled 1.3 million Nuvi GPS units in 2011. [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/26/garmin-gps-recall-nuvi_n_695967.html] These recalls were not for bad directions, but for fire hazards.
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*There are records of several {{w|Death by GPS | deaths resulting from following faulty GPS directions or maps}}, particularly while traveling in unfamiliar or difficult terrain. [http://www.newser.com/story/214008/woman-killed-after-gps-takes-her-to-wrong-street.html] [http://www.npr.org/2011/07/26/137646147/the-gps-a-fatally-misleading-travel-companion] [https://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/05/death-by-gps/]
  
 
==Transcript==
 
==Transcript==
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:[The guy lifts his hand and looks at Megan and Cueball.]
 
:[The guy lifts his hand and looks at Megan and Cueball.]
 
:Guy: The other is a regular sedan.
 
:Guy: The other is a regular sedan.
:Guy: But it has a GPS that's stuck trying to navigate to Seattle, and you can’t turn it off.
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:Guy: But it has a GPS that's stuck trying to navigate to Seattle.
 
:Megan: ...I can ignore it, right? That's fine.
 
:Megan: ...I can ignore it, right? That's fine.
  
 
:[In a frame-less panel Megan and Cueball drive in the sedan.]
 
:[In a frame-less panel Megan and Cueball drive in the sedan.]
:GPS: ''Turn left''
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:GPS: Turn left
:GPS: ''Recalculating''
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:GPS: Recalculating
:GPS: ''Make a U-turn''
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:GPS: Make a U-Turn
:GPS: ''Recalculating''
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:GPS: Recalculating
:GPS: ''Turn right''
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:GPS: Turn right
:GPS: ''Make a U-turn''
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:GPS: Make a U-Turn
:GPS: ''Recalculating''
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:GPS: Recalculating
  
 
:[Megan and Cueball walk back into the agency with the guy behind his desk. Megan holds out the car keys in one hand.]
 
:[Megan and Cueball walk back into the agency with the guy behind his desk. Megan holds out the car keys in one hand.]
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:Megan: We'll take the murder car.
 
:Megan: We'll take the murder car.
 
:Guy: Popular choice.
 
:Guy: Popular choice.
 
==Trivia==
 
*With an estimated 1.25 million vehicular deaths globally in 2013[http://www.who.int/gho/road_safety/mortality/traffic_deaths_number/en/] and approx. 1,187 million vehicles on the road in the same year [https://www.statista.com/statistics/281134/number-of-vehicles-in-use-worldwide/], the number of fatalities per vehicle comes to be around 0.1% or about 1 in 950. This number includes trucks and commecial vehicles.
 
* As of 2014, there were 253 million cars on the road in the US [http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-ihs-automotive-average-age-car-20140609-story.html] and only 32,675 deaths [https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/812246], giving a rate of fatalities per car of slightly over 0.01%, or 1 in 7,700)
 
* The car lethality risk is lower in the US by a factor of 8, compared to the worldwide vehicular lethality risk.
 
 
*The global number of haunted cars is not available, but believed to be at least five in number. [http://www.autoblog.com/2014/10/31/five-cursed-haunted-cars/]
 
 
*Similarly, while the number of faulty car GPS devices is not available, Garmin recalled 1.3 million Nuvi GPS units in 2011. [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/26/garmin-gps-recall-nuvi_n_695967.html] These recalls were not for bad directions, but for fire hazards.
 
 
*There are records of several {{w|Death by GPS | deaths resulting from following faulty GPS directions or maps}}, particularly while traveling in unfamiliar or difficult terrain. [http://www.newser.com/story/214008/woman-killed-after-gps-takes-her-to-wrong-street.html] [http://www.npr.org/2011/07/26/137646147/the-gps-a-fatally-misleading-travel-companion] [https://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/05/death-by-gps/]
 
  
 
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