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Hard to find up to date data, but looks like about two orders of magnitude, from ~5 deaths per billion miles to 0.05.
by concordDance 3y ago
Hard to find up to date data, but looks like about two orders of magnitude, from ~5 deaths per billion miles to 0.05.
- cjbprime 3y ago(Miles traveled is somewhat charitable to airlines and assumes trips are fungible between planes and cars.)
- oatmeal1 3y agoI'm not sure how you mean it's "charitable?" Could you explain?
- cjbprime 3y agoSure, sorry. Planes cover distance very quickly, and people use them for e.g. a six hour flight covering 4000 miles that they would not otherwise drive; this situation makes planes appear safer "per mile" than alternative valid metrics like "accidents per hour of travel" would.