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It makes no sense to look at number of flights for a comparison. You need to look at passenger miles.

• hunter2_ 2y ago
  You need to look at hours invested. If I'm planning to go away for a week, I'm choosing whether to sit in a car for 12 hours or airports+airplanes for 12 hours -- these are the equivalent options for how to spend my time away from home, so between these, how much safer is one over the other? Said another way, compare "trips by plane" against "a set of car trips whose average duration matches that of trips by plane."
  • gruez 2y ago
    >[...] these are the equivalent options for how to spend my time away from home No they're not. If you're in San Fransisco for instance, a 12 hour drive maybe gets you to LA, Vegas, and maybe salt lake city. It can't even get you to Seattle or Phoenix. Meanwhile even if you factor in getting to the airport 3 hours before departure, 1 hour to get to the airport, and 1 hour to get to your final destination, that leaves you with 7 hours of flight time. That's enough for a direct flight anywhere in the lower 48 states, and as well as many cities in Canada and Mexico.
    • hunter2_ 2y ago
      If I have a certain amount of time to spend and want a reasonable ratio of travel time to time-at-destination, some ratio that I prefer regardless of mode of travel, those are indeed the options I can choose from (e.g., driving to the next state or flying across the country). There will be many factors leading to a decision of which option to select, and if I want travel safety to be a factor, then the safety stats need to be presented as I'm describing.
    • NekkoDroid 2y ago
      Fuck, in 12 hours time I can get from Germany to USA Atlanta no problem, probably still 1-2 hours extra time.