>Scary. Are we, as the consumer, pushing for safer batteries? Nope, we aren't. We, as the consumer, say this on HN: >There is an inherent risk of loss of lif

>Scary. Are we, as the consumer, pushing for safer batteries? Nope, we aren't. We, as the consumer, say this on HN: >There is an inherent risk of loss of life whatever you do. We as a society just agreed that there's an acceptable level of it. Lithium-Ion batteries are on the higher level of it but their usefulness outweights it completely. To answer your question, there's a lot of things that have much higher chance of happening on an airplane e.g. a bird flying into the engine or a terrorist attack. Why push for innovation when you can just accept the inherent risk of death?