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    10 months ago

    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

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      10 months ago

      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.

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        10 months ago

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

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          10 months ago

          “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.

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          10 months ago

          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.

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          10 months ago

          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.

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        10 months ago

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

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      10 months ago

      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

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          10 months ago

          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?

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          8 months ago

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

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            8 months ago

            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.

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              8 months ago

              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.world
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        10 months ago

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