Per trip walking, bicycling, horse, car, airplane, space shuttle.
  Per mile space shuttle, airplane, car, horse, bicycling, walking.

The point was to illustrate that it's not some uncontrollable law of nature that more energy / power yields less safety.

Your also assuming all trips are in mixed traffic.

And then without looking up any statistics you assume your correct.

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I don't know where to begin.

In this table, bicycling has 170 deaths per billion journeys while flying has 117 and cars 40.

Different countries have different safety numbers for various reason. For example bicycling tends to be safer the more there is of it.

International Space Station is the safest way to travel, 17,150 mph, and zero deaths. Further, Deaths per billion journeys:

Car: 40 Foot: 40

But wait, more people are ~8x as many people are killed in cars vs walking in the US. So you only walk somewhere every few days?

Let's sanity check that: 1.24 million deaths occurred on the world’s roads. 7 billion people let's say they all average 2 trips a day * 365 days a year. That's ~485 deaths per billion trips.

Ok, so that chart is pure B.S.

On the other hand, most of the world's population doesn't drive a car so the number of trips is probably a lot less, making the number higher.

I think you have good points but your somewhat aggressive style is unnecessary.

I think per mile, commercial planes is about 2x as safe as cars -- not that much better as believed.

[1]http://www.airlinereporter.com/2010/09/flying-is-safe-and-i-...

Anyway, getting an apples to apples comparison between different modes of travel is almost impossible which was my original point.