[tzs]

That's based on deaths per mile, right? I'm not sure that is the best way to compare different kinds of transport.

For an extreme example imagine a company that offers trips to the Andromeda galaxy on a fleet of starships. Each ship carries 100 passengers.

There's a 99% chance that the ship explodes when they turn on the warp drive which kills everyone on board. If the ship doesn't explode it will make it safely to the destination.

The passenger fatality rate for that service is only 0.0000000000000069 fatalities per mile. That's nearly 5 orders of magnitude lower than the rate for commercial airlines. It's over 8 orders of magnitude lower than for cars.

But I doubt many people here would consider that to actually be safer than the drive to the spaceport.

[jiaaro]

The main difference is that you wouldn’t instead drive the whole way instead once you find out the risk. But people do drive the same places they fly

[adastra22]

Do they? I’ve never driven from San Francisco to Taipei or London.

But even in context, they’re talking about “the drive to the airport.” Do they drive hundreds/thousands of miles to get to the airport?