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But They Are Safer Than Driving…

Are Private Jets Safer Than Commercial Airliners? The Big Three auto companies say they are.

From Slate.

For good work on driving versus flying see Michael Sivak.

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  1. mdf Says:
    November 30th, 2008 at 11:56 am

    It strikes me as reasonable to think that getting in your car and driving 719 miles down the interstate is going to be a lot safer than driving 719 miles around a typical city. Is there any data that segments the risk of driving between city and highway? Near as I can tell, the usual sources for this information lumps it all together. And since a huge fraction of all driving is local, and city based, this may be skewing the risk ratio Sivak computes.

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