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statistic should be per hour spent in the transport, not per mile
by ssijak 3y ago
statistic should be per hour spent in the transport, not per mile
- gruez 3y ago1. That doesn't make any sense. You're not flying as some sort of recreational activity to pass the time. You're flying because you want to get from point a to point b. If you're making that journey, it makes sense to compare which method is the safest for the entire journey, not for 1 hour of it. 2. Even if we ignored the above, applying this adjustment doesn't change the conclusion that planes are safer than driving by a fair margin. The 737 MAX cruise at 521 mph. Cars top out at around 60mph. If we round that off to planes being 10x faster and normalize for that (ie. 10x the death rate), you still get 0.57 for a car vs <0.01 for a plane.