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Safety in cars vs planes can vary depending on how you look at it..

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Wow planes really aren't that safe on a per-journey basis, compared with other forms of transport. This surprises me.
 
Mike Gayner said:
Wow planes really aren't that safe on a per-journey basis, compared with other forms of transport. This surprises me.
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It is probably because when one goes down, even if that is unlikely, a ton of people die. So in that aspect, although car accidents are more frequent, the number of deaths is a small fraction of a plane accident.

The deaths per kilometer measurement is a bit of a dumb measurement, if you ask me. It dilutes the meaning of the statistic.
 
Dumac said:
It is probably because when one goes down, even if that is unlikely, a ton of people die. So in that aspect, although car accidents are more frequent, the number of deaths is a small fraction of a plane accident.

The deaths per kilometer measurement is a bit of a dumb measurement, if you ask me. It dilutes the meaning of the statistic.
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and your not going to take a plane to goto the local convenience store
 
Dumac said:
It is probably because when one goes down, even if that is unlikely, a ton of people die. So in that aspect, although car accidents are more frequent, the number of deaths is a small fraction of a plane accident.

The deaths per kilometer measurement is a bit of a dumb measurement, if you ask me. It dilutes the meaning of the statistic.
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How often do you fly vs walk?
 
I just want a fighting chance to live. Hitting the ground, strapped in, surrounded by two huge vats of jet fuel just isn't encouraging. At least the 165 Km/h train is on the ground when it decides to clear the landscape with 500 tons of steel.
 
slayer202 said:
yeah, this is the most important factor. it's probably more accurate to just compare total number of deaths per mode of transit
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Comparing total car deaths vs total plane deaths is completely useless. There are more passenger miles and passenger journeys per day for cars than there are for planes. That will cause the count for cars to far exceed that for planes without giving any real insight into the safety of traveling by them.

Comparing the deaths per passenger mile (or kilometer) is probably the most valid comparison out there. You don't sit around thinking "Oh I should go on a journey today and don't care how far it is", you decide you need to get from point A to point B, which has a fixed distance. You'd use the chance of death per mile to figure out the relative danger of the different ways to get there.
 
Imp said:
I just want a fighting chance to live. Hitting the ground, strapped in, surrounded by two huge vats of jet fuel just isn't encouraging. At least the 165 Km/h train is on the ground when it decides to clear the landscape with 500 tons of steel.
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I'm pretty sure airplanes should have seat cushions that act, not as flotation devices, but as parachutes.
 
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