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    • 13617@lemmy.worldEnglish
      33·
      9 个月前

      thought you were serious for a second, for those who aren’t getting the joke, driving your car is thousands of times more dangerous than taking a plane flight

      • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
        10·
        9 个月前

        But all those articles about Boeing issues will get more people to drive. It’s ironic how fighting for higher flying safety standards can kill people. The surplus in car crash fatalities in the months after 9/11 was higher than the number of passengers on all the planes involved.

        • MrBusiness@lemmy.zipEnglish
          10·
          9 个月前

          We need more trains in North America. From my experience between planes, trains, and automobiles (and boats) trains have been the best experience.

          • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            9 个月前

            They’d also be the easiest to make self-driving.

            Don’t want to deal with things like lane changes, identifying traffic signals, erratic drivers, etc? Just focus on self driving trains instead. They go back and forth on a set path, on a set schedule, and can automatically watch for things like people/animals/debris on the tracks, electronically receive stop/go signals, etc…

            All the focus is on self-driving cars, when it really should be on trains.

          • puppy@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            9 个月前

            “Knocks on wood”. Japan’s bullet trains have zero fatalities after more than 60 years of service. Trains are the absolute safest if managed properly.

          • Zink@programming.devEnglish
            2·
            9 个月前

            I’m one of those people that likes to get a window seat and occasionally check out the views and marvel at what is really going on at that moment.

            But the flying experience sucks. If there was an option to chill in a comfy train to replace short and medium flights, I would be right there with you.

        • Zink@programming.devEnglish
          4·
          9 个月前

          It really is insane how many people’s perception of safety is so completely opposite to reality.

      • BobGnarley@lemm.eeEnglish
        310·
        9 个月前

        Idk man I see this statistic all the time but you might survive a car crash but if you fall from a metal tube in the sky you are most likely dead as fuck. I think crashes happen lessoften but when you do crash in a plane theres usually zero survivors

          • BobGnarley@lemm.eeEnglish
            11·
            9 个月前

            Ok ok lol I can see why you’d say this so let me frame it another way. I’ve personally been in a car crash before (two), and I survived. Do you know one single person personally yourself who has survived a plane crash? What about two of them? Now what about car crashes? I bet you know at least one person who has survived a car crash, right?

            • Takumidesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              9 个月前

              I know more people that have died in car crashes (2, in separate instances, and one person that died in a motorcycle accident) than people who have died in plane crashes (0).

              But that doesn’t actually matter, because a) anecdotal evidence means very little, if not nothing when considering the scale of transportation industries and b) the numbers don’t lie. Since 1970, 85,555 people have died in fatal aviation incidents. Around 100,000 people die or are disabled in car accidents every single month.

              Your misunderstanding of statistics and probability and your idea that because the concept of a minor car accident exists, it nullifies the fact that they are dangerous, is just wrong.

          • BobGnarley@lemm.eeEnglish
            11·
            8 个月前

            I came back to find this comment. How do you feel about flying now? Make sure it’s not a Boeing amirite?

            • Takumidesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              8 个月前

              I am an airframe and powerplant certified mechanic, I worked on 737NGs for years as well as a320/1/neo, etc.

              I know more about aviation than you, I know more about plane crashes than you.

              • BobGnarley@lemm.eeEnglish
                1·
                8 个月前

                Hey if all that is true then yes you 100 percent do know more than I do about it that’s no question lol just poking at it again because of the news with Boeing killing that guy and the tons of problems they’ve found them to have and they’re still up there zipping around like nothing is happening.

        • puppy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          9 个月前

          There are stats about fatalities you know? Not just number of incidents. Cars are orders of magnitude more dangerous in those stats as well.

        • trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
          6·
          9 个月前

          Some people on lemmy are smart, likely a higher ratio than many other sites, but there’s still a ridiculous surplus of fools

          • meyotch@slrpnk.netEnglish
            61·
            9 个月前

            And all those smart people still have incredibly stupid opinions outside their areas of expertise. Everyone is a moron in the wrong context.

            • trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
              4·
              9 个月前

              I’d posit a well rounded education doesn’t necessarily agree with that. You don’t need a professional education in a topic to be able to provide a decent opinion, it’s just that many people opt not to work on their own educations and prefer to be spoon fed materials, and it’s this behaviour that produces morons in almost every context, rather than individuals that have problematic views in a few topics.