Commercial air travel is about 110x safer in terms of fatalities per passenger mile than driving or riding in a car [1]. In 2014, incidents where at least one

Commercial air travel is about 110x safer in terms of fatalities per passenger mile than driving or riding in a car [1]. In 2014, incidents where at least one driver had a detectable amount of alcohol in their system accounted for 36% of traffic fatalities in the US. Even if you exclude those fatalities entirely, driving is still 70x more dangerous. Now of course you can claim that you're just a better driver than the average person (like 93% of Americans do [3]), but no matter how good of a driver you are, I doubt if it would come anywhere close to making up for a 70x difference. [1] http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~ipsavage/436-appendix.pdf http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~ipsavage/436-appendix.... [2] https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/Publication/812231 https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/Publication/8122... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority