I’m going to stop saying “safe travels.” Travel is safe.
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Airplane travel is safe. More people die from cars than ever before
The absolute number is irrelevant in terms of safety. You have to look at deaths per vehicle-mile traveled, which is at an all-time low - down to ~12 per billion VMT from ~47 in 1970.pic.twitter.com/CC6YCMO3so
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i thought you would be looking at global numbers, given people are traveling
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Hard to find aggregate international numbers, but here's an example. Since cars are getting safer every year, it's hard to imagine from a first principles standpoint why the death rate per vehicle-km driven would be increasing. What am I missing?pic.twitter.com/QtKAvK8Y4t
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