Uber-Style Flight-Sharing Service Shot Down by U.S. Court

Re:Uber-Style Flight-Sharing Service Shot Down by U.S. Court by VLM on Monday December 21, 2015 @10:37AM (#10771529)

"General aviation is also about 20 times more dangerous than driving a car"

Yet the title of your link is "Why Private Planes Are Nearly as Deadly as Cars" and by nearly, the clickbait means:

"Breaking out the data per mile puts the accident rate of private aviation at one-sixth the accident rate in automobiles"

The truth is likely somewhere in between that 1:120 range.

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Re:Uber-Style Flight-Sharing Service Shot Down by U.S. Court by mcguire on Monday December 21, 2015 @11:00AM (#10771654)

"[For automobiles] the fatality rate was 1.1 deaths per 100 million vehicle-miles traveled. Assuming an average vehicle speed of 50 miles per hour (a big assumption), the fatality rate for automobiles translates to 1.1 per every 2 million hours. Taking the preliminary 2013 fatality rate in general aviation of 1.05 fatalities for every 100,000 hours of flight time and scaling it up to 2 million hours gives a comparison rate of 21 general aviation fatalities per every 2 million hours."

Depends on how you measure.

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