Re:French lawmakers approve a ban on short domestic flights
by bildung on Monday April 12, 2021 @02:24AM
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Sadly that isn't the case: The actual fatalities and accidents per billion km driven is higher in the US than many other industrialized countries, so it's not about more km/miles being driven in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
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Re:French lawmakers approve a ban on short domestic flights
by AnthonyMouse on Monday April 12, 2021 @03:15PM
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In terms of fatalities per billion km the US is between Belgium and New Zealand. Not really up there with Somalia.
And the ranking there is kind of misleading because the types of countries that collect fatalities per unit distance at all are the ones that tend to do really well on it. We don't have the data for Russia or China but guesstimating based on accidents per 100k vehicles, it's bad.
Whereas e.g. Germany does really well. But fatalities per unit distance for the US isn't even twice the number in Germany, whereas in terms of fatalities per 100k population, the US is 335% of Germany. Consistent with the bulk of the difference being explained in terms of more miles traveled.
Re:French lawmakers approve a ban on short domestic flights
by Guthur on Monday April 12, 2021 @02:43AM
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Are they also reluctant to wear seat belts?
Re:French lawmakers approve a ban on short domestic flights
by bildung on Monday April 12, 2021 @03:37AM
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Seat belt usage is about the same: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt_use_rates_by_country