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Deaths per billion: |Journeys | Hours | KM Bus| 4.3 | 11.1 | 0.4 Air| 117 | 30.8 | 0.05 That's rea
by esperent 6y ago
Deaths per billion:
|Journeys | Hours | KM
Bus| 4.3 | 11.1 | 0.4
Air| 117 | 30.8 | 0.05
That's really interesting. Per KM, air is way safer than bus, but per journey it's roughly the same degree in the other direction.
I'm having a hard time saying which one is safer from that data. However, both are very, very safe.
I would like to see "Air" replaced by "737 Max" though.
- igravious 6y agoHuh? That's interesting! Don't tell me that when people tout the safety of air transport they're using deaths per billions of km rather than per (billions of) journeys. Journeys is the important metric, surely!
- esperent 6y agoThe median bus journeys is probably about 20 minutes long since intercity journeys are probably dwarfed in number by city busses, so I'm not sure per journey is the best metric here. Per hour or per KM seems better, or possible take a weighted average of all three.