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Dec 28, 2012 | 10:13 am

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airmotive

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Originally Posted by CPRich

Sorry, but simple statistics prove this wrong.

Deaths per Billion KM:
Air: 0.05
Bus: 0.4
Rail: 0.6
Auto: 3.1

Old data, but I doubt the relative numbers have changed.

I don't find it hard to believe that at least 1.5% of air travelers would chose to drive instead of stay home, were they forced to buy additional seats.

Find me more than 1 lap-child death this year. I can provide you thousands of child deaths by auto.

While any child death is a tragedy, nothing is perfectly safe - don't make the good worse by trying to be perfect.

Then we should also have the option of putting 400 people onto 737's in standing room only at $25 a person. After all, if it saves lives by allowing people who normally would have to drive but can now afford to fly...

Respectfully, you can have one side of this argument or the other; you can't have both.

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