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To keep things in perspective we should compare fatalities per person trips or person miles. Total deaths doesn't mean as much when a lot more people travel by
by omikun 3y ago
To keep things in perspective we should compare fatalities per person trips or person miles. Total deaths doesn't mean as much when a lot more people travel by car.
- stouset 3y agoWe do, and there has been one death due to an incident on a major U.S. airline since November 2001. You can maybe argue two, where a woman was killed after exiting an Asiana plane after it crashed at SFO. She was hit by an emergency vehicle responding to the scene.
- sokoloff 3y agoAsiana is not in the set of "major US airlines". Separately, major US airlines can reliably fly a daytime visual approach with a fully working airplane into a major airport.
- hardcopy 3y agoeh. To a certain extent you should compare based on distance traveled, maybe. But total miles driven in the USA are quite high compared to other countries. Lots of driving simply doesn't need to happen, but occurs because we induce it by the way we design the places where we build. I don't really care how safe driving is per mile, I care if I'm going to be dead at the end of the year.