Re:US airlines transported passengers over two light-years s...
by TacticalCoder on Monday December 02, 2024 @02:41PM
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> I once analyzed the numbers and flying isn't actually much safer than driving per trip.
Especially if you compare to highway driving, which I take it is the most similar to flying (as in: people usually don't use a plane as a transportation method to go to the grocery store). When I go to my secondary home, it's 95% highway driving.
In the EU not even 1 in 12 road fatality happens on the highway. You remove all the "between 18 and 25 years old drunk without a seatbelt on a friday or saturday night" accidents on the highways and it's something like not even 1 in 25 fatality happening on highways.
FWIW I very rarely fly. Last time was 2019. I simply hate the whole experience (being packed like sardines inside a tin can ain't my thing but then being treated like cattle at airports is kinda unbearable to me).
Especially if you compare to highway driving, which I take it is the most similar to flying (as in: people usually don't use a plane as a transportation method to go to the grocery store). When I go to my secondary home, it's 95% highway driving.
In the EU not even 1 in 12 road fatality happens on the highway. You remove all the "between 18 and 25 years old drunk without a seatbelt on a friday or saturday night" accidents on the highways and it's something like not even 1 in 25 fatality happening on highways.
FWIW I very rarely fly. Last time was 2019. I simply hate the whole experience (being packed like sardines inside a tin can ain't my thing but then being treated like cattle at airports is kinda unbearable to me).