> 2. It's probably still safer, per mile traveled, than my driving commute, and I don't give climbing into a car a second thought.

maybe at the start when everything was within its specified flying hours

but after a few years it's going to be way worse

If driving were 10 times more dangerous than it is now, we'd all still be doing it.

your lifetime risk of dying in a motor accident is about 1 in 100 (depending on where in the world you live)

I suspect you'd see fewer people driving if it was 1 in 10

> I suspect you'd see fewer people driving if it was 1 in 10

Everybody dies, and I need to get to work/see grandma/go to the grocery. People drove about as much in the 60s, when the per-vehicle mile travel deaths in the US were 5 times what they are today.

>I suspect you'd see fewer people driving if it was 1 in 10

I don't. The cohort of people that make risk assessments with regards to routine every-day things and change their plans accordingly is minuscule, and most places around the world do not have an equivalent form of transportation.

Even with minor/un-needed activities people tend to ignore risk. Every cigarette smoker over a long enough period will develop health problems and eventually die faster than they would have otherwise, but it's still a thing; and it doesn't offer the advantage of actually facilitating getting to work on time and feeding your family.

the coronavirus fatality was also similar no? yet we had lockdowns...