Air travel is inherently more dangerous than automobile travel. This is intuitively and actually true. People learn from a very young age that falling hurts and

Air travel is inherently more dangerous than automobile travel. This is intuitively and actually true. People learn from a very young age that falling hurts and falling even 10 meters can be fatal. Falling, flying, great heights tickle the fear centers in your lizard brain. Vehicles are more like incremental improvements to things that are safe like running or riding a horse. Additionally auto accidents are mostly isolated to 2 parties on the roadway they're travelling. So we don't exercise the same caution with cars. Practically, air travel is safer because they are built, maintained, piloted, and continuously monitored by professionals. Conversely a 15 year old can build a kit car and drive it on the highway legally. If they break a dozen traffic laws they may or may not get caught and penalized. If we could get people to assess and respond to risk rationally, we could make a lot of things safer.