Hmmm is there a flaud to this ?

Question

Statistics show that planes are safer than cars, but compared to the amount of cars that are used a year to the amount of planes ? doesnt that make it a bit unfair?

thanks

Answer 1

Planes are safer per passenger mile.  Cars tend to be used for shorter journeys and at lower speeds so it's not a completely fair test.  However, if you want to travel 1,000 miles, a plane is safest.  The risk of being killed travelling 1,000 miles by train is about twice as much and the risk of being killed travelling 1,000 miles by car is about 40 times as much.

Answer 2

1. There are less drunk pilots in the skies..............

2. Planes are safer because less of them crash on average than cars.

3. It's safer because nobody is going to crash you.

And, it's also 9 times as fast! You could drive 10hours, or you could just fly one hour... You will be bored that hour... but you'll win 9 hours.

4. If you dont think air travel isn't safer then driving a car next time you're at a red light look who's driving the car next to you.

5. The stat is arrived at by comparing the number of passenger vehicles on the road with the number of airplanes in active service and the number of passenger they carry.

Then you look at the number of accidents for both and find that when compared to each other, given the above information, there are far fewer incidents of accidents and fatalities in air travel than in automobiles, relatively speaking.

This is relative, because far more people drive than fly, so the actual numbers are represented by percentage points...................

Answer 3

It's more about number of journeys and number of miles rather than number of cars or planes.

Answer 4

Yes in one way, but if a car is in an accident, there are 5,6,or 7 people in it when it full.

But when a plane is full and is in an accident, there are 300-400 lives in danger in one time.

Answer 5

there are lies ,d**n lies, and statistics

Answer 6

The statistics are derived in a relative sense as per first answer ie: if a car & a plane both travelled exactly the same distance then the likelihood of accident / injury in a car would be greater. BTW - I think you mean either flaw, or flawed.