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Cars are the probabilistically one of the most risky form of transport. I doubt that you are concerned about that fact when you get in to one.
by VBprogrammer 16y ago
Cars are the probabilistically one of the most risky form of transport. I doubt that you are concerned about that fact when you get in to one.
- whyenot 16y agoRisk of death isn't the only issue. In a car accident you don't have to worry about cesium-137 rendering the area near the accident unusable by humans for 100 years or more.
- dmm 16y agoDriving a car doesn't produce large, economical quantities of electricity either, it's about managed risk and cost-benefit considerations.
- OpieCunningham 16y agoQuantitatively, cars are extremely safe based on the number of drivers and the frequency with which they drive. If you put a billion people around Chernobyl during the accident the number of people dead would greatly outnumber the number dead from all car accidents throughout history. Put another way, on average driving 100 million miles is safer than flying 100 million miles (contrary to popular belief that flying is safer than driving). http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/planecrash/risk-01.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/planecrash/risk-01.html You can see the fallacy of "cars are dangerous" when you compare cars to motorcycles on that chart, because most people don't ride motorcycles so the probability of death for most people is lower than for a car. Fukushima is extraordinarily safe for everyone living in Iceland. It is far less safe for everyone living in Japan.