[higherup]

>very few people refuse to drive over the unlikely possibility of a fatal car accident, or live in a basement on the remote possibility that a tree or meteor will fall on their home.

That is because there is no media that is fear mongering on these things by reporting 24x7 on every car accident in gruesome details, and run reports on how driving in a car is very dangerous, when there is a chance that one of the thounsand other drivers that you come across on the road might be a crazed, drunk, distracted person that could hit you, support it with "statistics", and just because you survived the last trip, does not mean that you ll survive the next.

They will also run stories about these "anti-walk" persons who took a car or bike, but died in a horrible crashes.

The point is, everything is a line between risk and benefits, and when the risk and benefits are a matter of perception, media has great potential to come in and set where that line is..