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> And you could certainly make the same argument about airliners, which have a death rate <10% that of trains (and <1% that of cars). You can, but it's not a f
by antisthenes 4y ago
> And you could certainly make the same argument about airliners, which have a death rate <10% that of trains (and <1% that of cars).
You can, but it's not a fair comparison. 99.9% of deaths of railroad transport is people killed while crossing rails - e.g. pedestrians.
If you consider rail passengers only, it is far lower than airlines and cars, something on the scale of 2-3 people/year.
Airplanes are cheating in the sense that there are no pedestrians in the air to collide with.
- dogecoinbase 4y agoI mean, not _zero_[0]... but close enough, really. 0: https://www.aopa.org/training-and-safety/air-safety-institute/accident-analysis/featured-accidents/terminal-velocity-when-airplanes-and-skydivers-collide https://www.aopa.org/training-and-safety/air-safety-institut...
- davewasthere 4y agoWow.. And if you asked me to predict the outcome of that incident, I'd have said the fatalities would have been the other way around... go figure!
- antisthenes 4y agoHaha, ok, I stand corrected. Interesting stat.