Re:The Silent Anniversary: Fifteen Years Since Our Last Majo...
by rodgerd on Thursday December 08, 2016 @05:42PM
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> Driving you can control for everything pretty much but the 'other guy'.
Yes, and all the evidence says you're terrible at it.
Re:The Silent Anniversary: Fifteen Years Since Our Last Majo...
by wtbob on Thursday December 08, 2016 @09:08PM
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I don't know about that. Nearly every adult American drives nearly every day of his life, and only about 30,000 die each year. That's still too high, of course, and I look forward to autonomous cars, but it does mean that while many of us know of folks who've been in fatal accidents the vast, vast majority of us won't.
Driving you can control for everything pretty much but the 'other guy'.
When flying you are depending on multiple 'other guys or gals' all doing their job correctly, not making mistakes in multiple areas where there is no way for you to verify. So the unknown factor is considerably higher, regardless of statistics.
With driving if the weather is bad you can typically drive later/earlier a different day. With flying that is not the case. You are locked in financially to perhaps taking a bigger chance than you might if you could just work around the weather (in two cities).