"Slow iteration, each mistake that you could learn from potentially costs a hundred lives" The potential for disaster is absolutely there, but aircraft crashes

"Slow iteration, each mistake that you could learn from potentially costs a hundred lives" The potential for disaster is absolutely there, but aircraft crashes rarely do cause that many deaths, they are just the ones media loves to cover. The survival rate of aircraft crashes are at about 90%. Every year millions of people die on the road, amounting to several thousand each day. That means that just a bump of 10% in the death rate of automobile accidents would mean hundreds of thousands more victims every year, they're just distributed across many accidents that would only be reported on during a slow news day. A bump up in aviation death rates would mean a couple thousand more. http://abcnews.go.com/International/odds-surviving-plane-crash/story?id=22886654 http://abcnews.go.com/International/odds-surviving-plane-cra... http://www.who.int/gho/road_safety/mortality/traffic_deaths_number/en/ http://www.who.int/gho/road_safety/mortality/traffic_deaths_...