I think I fly on average a bit more than once every two weeks. I'm in a car about every day, mostly for short trips--in the last month I probably spent about as much time in a car as in a plane. Pilots probably fly more hours than they drive.

You really have to fuck with the statistics to get driving to come anywhere close to commercial aviation in terms of safety, they're so far apart.

You can't influnce that when you fly.

Source?

> You can't influnce that when you fly

Whether you can influence a variable doesn't change its order of magnitude. Unless you're driving on a closed track at low enough speeds that if you pass out you'll be fine, you're safer flying than driving.

Look at accident reasons in the statistics. Velocity is a big part.

Changing the variable doesn’t change the overall order of a magnitude but the personal one.

If you don’t DUI your risk of dying because of DUI is lower

In theory it would be possible to create a safe driving car that would avoid unsafe roads, conditions, mental state, amount of driving, driving practices, speeds, distances etc. But a lot of the time it would just end up not being compatible with the road system and owning a car. And it still wouldn't totally prevent an accident, especially not caused by anyone else.

As someone who does both, the former is still controlled in a way we just don't do for cars.

Note that the moment we go to countries that are actually willing to take people's driver's licenses (and put them in jail when they drive without one, the way you'd expect to be treated flying a plane unlicensed), the safety statistics change. The only way we're getting that in America, however, is with self-driving cars.