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I think it’s more of an illusion of control… you can control your car to some extent like choosing flights that might have better weather that day or something
by ericmay 5y ago
I think it’s more of an illusion of control… you can control your car to some extent like choosing flights that might have better weather that day or something but ultimately nobody thinks they’ll be a statistic until they are. Plenty of people die choosing lower traffic roads too.
- agumonkey 5y agoIf you drive slow alone the chance of fatal crash are near zero. Slow, not mildly fast. When you're in the plane you have zero options. You don't even have a parachute. I just don't get it :)
- ericmay 5y agoPrimarily because you can’t control how others drive
- dotancohen 5y agoThe parachute won't help you during the dangerous part of flight. Do you know what the most fatal portion of the sport of skydiving is? Statistically, the most deaths occur during the drive to or from the airport. Now just think of how safe _commercial_ air travel is.
- agumonkey 5y agoI can't never not think that if there were as few cars as there are planes in the sky (10k ?) road fatality stats would look very different.
- dotancohen 5y agoThat sounds like a good argument for better public transportation. Not much air travel is by general aviation.