Why was hitchhiking more socially acceptable back in the day?

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ParanoidObsessive posted...
Yeah, but statistics can be misleading. There were more incidents then because there was a much larger percentage of people doing it then.

In other words, it's a similar concept to how 1% of 1000 is more than 90% of 10.

There's probably a much higher chance of things going wrong now, if only because of the fact that the only people who are likely to be hitchhiking or picking up hitchhikers now are the crazies.
that's why GameReviews used the term "murder rate" aka not gross numbers
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