[bendhoefs]

What he's saying is they may have calculated rates based on how many cars of that brand were sold rather than how many are still "in circulation".

[riversflow]

or, maybe, if you are the type of person who can only afford a car whose brand no longer exists, you are sufficiently risk averse that you are much less likely to get an accident. Makes sense to me. Also, it may be that a lot of these car brands only exists in a sort of suvivorship-biased place. For example, I drive a '94 Camry, in large part because I've never had a need to replace it, having never been in an accident.

[passwordoops]

Then the out of production brands would have infinity DUI, accidents, etc...

No, I think DP (1) didn't understand "rates" in the title then (2) critiqued methodology without opening the link