Better drivers?

"Jose" wrote in message ...
I think this is faulty reasoning. Unless you hide behind "relatively
speaking", it may be simply that flying is more dangerous than driving.

Jose
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Do you really believe that flying is more dangerous than driving?
When was the last time you drove in any major city?
And how many times did you have to modify your speed, direction
or stopping distance because of another drivers mistake?

I find that I'm much safer in a plane than in a car.

The statistics show the 50,000 drivers die per year.
I believe the number for airplane accidents is around 900 per year
worldwide.
And if I'm not mistaken, the 50k is in the U.S. alone.

Can anyone back up the stats, I know I have seen them printed somewhere
before.

David

"FLAV8R" wrote:
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I find that I'm much safer in a plane than in a car.
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Can anyone back up the stats, I know I have seen them printed somewhere
before.

This probably isn't what you are thinking of, but it is tbe only study I've
found on the web that compares the accident rate of various modes of
transportation and normalizes the data:

http://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/...omparisons.pdf

For my own comparative purposes, GA flying appears to be ~7 times more
likely to lead to a fatal accident than driving (rounded average of columns
1 and 4 in table 5; all the other columns use measures not relevant to my
own situation).

I find that I'm much safer in a plane than in a car.

"find" implies knowledge - results of investigations and such. Perhaps
more apt would be "believe" (unless you have had a sufficient number of
car crashes =and= airplane crashes from which to draw valid conclusions).

The statistics show the 50,000 drivers die per year.
I believe the number for airplane accidents is around 900

Numbers are meaningless without appropriate normalization. Per mile?
Per year? Per passenger? Per flight? Per dollar?

Jose
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