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Airliners have (2000-2010) 0.2 fatalities per 10 billion passenger-mile. That's passenger-mile - there are tens or hundreds of passenger on each flight. In 201
by oldgradstudent 7y ago
Airliners have (2000-2010) 0.2 fatalities per 10 billion passenger-mile. That's passenger-mile - there are tens or hundreds of passenger on each flight.
In 2017, UPS had 5 fatalities per 14 billion miles driven, or 3.6 fatalities per 10 billion miles. Given that a UPS truck has tens or hundreds of packages the fatalities per package-mile is much lower.
Using UPS would be far safer than using delivery drones, even delivery drones reach the reliability and safety levels of commercial airliners.