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by m463 2471 days ago
Well, teslas ARE more likely to crash than commercial airliners, because "everyone knows you are more likely to die driving to the airport than in the plane"

Other than that, tesla does publish some data:

https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport

That said, people commonly constrain the Tesla comparisons to newer cars or in some other way.

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See wikipedia's "aviation_safety" page. Avaiation is clearly safer per mile (a factor of 60 or so), but not that much safer per hour (factor of 4 per so), but is 3 times more dangerous per journey.

So driving to the airport might well be safer than flying across the country according to the journey metric. Even using the hour metric I often am less than an hour from the airport and take more than a 4 hour flight.