Safest way to travel.....

Actually, whilst airline flying probably is safer, the statistics you often see are skewed, because they compare the number of accidents against distance travelled to get the danger ratio. That is giving an unfair advantage to airlines, because they sometimes travel enormous distances, yet the vast majority of accidents happen at take off or landing, which have to be undertaken regardless of how long the flight is.

If all airline flights were only ten miles long, you would see the statistics making it look far more unsafe, even though the actual number and rate of accidents would be no different (or at least barely different).

At the same time though, there are statistics that you're more likely to get into an automobile accident close to home.

No one flies for 10 miles, any any statistics on that would be irrelevant.

That's not the point though. The point is that the theory of measuring airline safety by number of miles travelled is an entirely inaccurate statistic, because longer journeys do not significantly increase risk, whilst with cars they do.

My point being that if an air journey is equally dangerous at ten miles (which plenty pf private aviators fly, btw) than at 1000 miles, this obviously shows that the 'accidents per mile travelled' statistic is nonsense.

Whereas the risk of a car accident, very simply, increases the longer your journey is.

It's a very dangerous mis-use of statistical evidence.

Originally posted by Blaxican
Has anyone ever stopped to consider that the reason why statisticly their are more car crashes is necause they're like 5 times more Cars then there are Planes? Iono...

Or maybe because any idiot can drive a car.

Precisely.

I've known someone to fail 5 tests and pass on the 6th. If you fail twice you shouldn't be able to try again for a while.

-AC

Well, in Illinois I don't think you can try again for a few months and if you fail 3 times you can't again for a full year. I think. Been a few years since any thoughts like that have had to cross my mind.

Though it's so damn easy I don't know how people can fail, period...

Anyway, I've found that since I've started driving, I tend to very much dislike being in a car when someone else is driving. I had figured I'd've been afraid of flying, but it doesn't bother me at all.

i am gonna start using floo powder.

Statiscally speaking, the safest way to travel is by hovercraft

Teleprter travel and airplanes are probably the safest.

You're in a car and something goes wrong, it isn't nearly as godawful as a plane screwing up.

10,000 feet to fall.