Southwest 1380: think about the flight attendants

Re:Southwest 1380: think about the flight attendants by JackFr on Thursday April 19, 2018 @11:26AM (#16876685)

> Road deaths are double the OECD average.

I think you overstate that.

Consider fatalities per billion vehicle kilometers -- Americans drive more than the OECD average. The Czech Republic and Korea have rates triple those of the next closest OECD country, and the US fares better than Japan and Belgium.

Not only is it not Mad Max, it's basically within the norms of the OECD.

https://asset.keepeek-cache.com/medias/domain21/_pdf/media26...

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Re:Southwest 1380: think about the flight attendants by romwell on Thursday April 19, 2018 @05:47PM (#16880467)

I've been saying for a while that in the US, the real killer is the suburban infrastructure.

Forget guns. Way more people are dying in car crashes than from any other violent cause or accident type. And, as you said, Americans aren't bad drivers per se.

It's just that in the US, there are way more miles driven per person than in European countries. This number - and the car fatalities - drop in dense cities like NYC with public transportation that works.

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Re:Southwest 1380: think about the flight attendants by emodendroket on Thursday April 19, 2018 @04:01PM (#16879577)

I've always found being in a car in Korea terrifying, so I'm glad to have statistics to back up my impressions.

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