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> In a car you usually fasten your seatbelt all the time so that you don't have to guess when the risk is going to occur. In a plane there's no reason not to ac
by wfunction 10y ago
> In a car you usually fasten your seatbelt all the time so that you don't have to guess when the risk is going to occur. In a plane there's no reason not to act the same way.
Sure there is. The chances of dying in a car accident are around 1% whereas the same in an air accident is, like, 100x less likely?
It's like how you wear a helmet when you're in a construction zone but you don't wear a helmet when walking around the city despite the nonzero chance that something might fall on your head. (Or do you?)
- Moru 10y agoWe are not only talking about dying in accidents, hitting your head on the ceiling can still hurt a lot. The risk does not only come from meeting planes, it can also be natural turbulence that you get no warning for. The reasons there are less accidents in the planes is not because they are inherently more safe (ever read up how helicopters work?), it comes from the rigorous rules around everything flying. The rules exists mostly because something happened and the industry set rules to make it not happen again. You wear helmets on construction sites because the risk of something falling on your head is so much higher when people are working with loose tools in high altitudes, hanging from ropes or whatever. (And the company is responsible for your safety so will protect their asses from getting sued.)