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Its like with airplane crashes vs car crashes. The chance that you get an accident with your car is significantly higher, but usually the airplane accident ends up on "BREAKING NEWS". Its just a matter of impact.
> The chance that you get an accident with your car is significantly higher
There's a difference between fatalities and accidents. Fatalities are surprisingly low. Plus, Air travel is only significantly safer per-km, per-journey it's not at all safer [1].
> Air travel is only significantly safer per-km, per-journey it's not at all safer
Of course there are far more car journeys taken than plane ones, so the GP's point stands (and since the point was just to make an analogy, unless you disagree that plane crashes get far more news coverage than car crashes, I'm not sure what the point of disagreement was).
(note those numbers also come from the UK, 1990-2000. If you took the numbers from the US, the car fatalities would be significantly higher (per capita or per km) and if they were from the last decade the air fatalities far lower)
Its like with airplane crashes vs car crashes. The chance that you get an accident with your car is significantly higher, but usually the airplane accident ends up on "BREAKING NEWS". Its just a matter of impact.