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One other thing that is easily forgotten, trains are much safer and feel safer. In road traffic there are maybe 50 deaths per year per million people (wild gue
by mpol 4y ago
One other thing that is easily forgotten, trains are much safer and feel safer.
In road traffic there are maybe 50 deaths per year per million people (wild guess, but not that far off). With trains in Europe, it's not even 1 per year per million. I don't have to think about all the "almost-accidents" that are part of road traffic. This does come with a price, but buying a newer and safer car also comes with a price.
- bytehowl 4y agoA better metric is deaths per unit of distance travelled. I don't have the numbers, though.
- Retric 4y agoI disagree, a car with 4 passengers is going to have far more deaths per billion miles than a car with 1 passenger, but the risks per passenger is about the same. That’s why people use deaths per passenger mile to compare things.
- bytehowl 4y ago...That's what I have said? The only thing that could be unclear about my comment is that I have meant distance traveled per passenger, not per vehicle.