> I don't think the crash requirements need to compare to commercial aviation, but to cars. This is competing with cars. A lot of car crashes are not fatal. W

> I don't think the crash requirements need to compare to commercial aviation, but to cars. This is competing with cars. A lot of car crashes are not fatal. Would you be able to say the same of electric airplanes? I'm guessing fatality rate will be much higher, and with added collateral damage of a lithium ion bomb falling from the sky onto other cars, buildings, etc. the public will not tolerate electric plane crash rates the same as car crashes.