May 14, 2015

Deaths per billion passenger miles

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

213 in 1B, 7.3 in 1B, etc.

There is only about a 0.0328% difference between the 213 value and the 0.07 values. These values are not really statistically significant.

Not that I would ride a motorcycle, but with an airplane its the first step out the door that will kill you. And that, for me, is really what makes the difference.

-DaTheorist

Anonymous said...

I find it interesting that bicycles were left off this chart.

AgustinG said...

Bicycles were probably left off because, according to the indicated source, it is "difficult to calculate accurately because we don't know the number of bicycle miles traveled in the U.S. annually, because the sources disagree so strongly."

http://bicycleuniverse.info/transpo/almanac-safety.html