[crazygringo]

> And in the rare cases when things do go wrong your chances of survival are much higher.

That's a completely irrelevant metric.

The only thing that matters is my risk of injury/death per passenger mile. Trains are much worse. End of story.

What you're saying is that trains get into far more accidents, but that don't injure/kill you. On top of still being much more likely to injure/kill you.

And you think that's a good thing...?

[Symbiote]

You should compare to a country which invests significant effort into a safe railway, such as the UK.

There have been 7 passenger deaths in the UK in the last 20 years, with around 60 billion passenger km each year.

That seems to be of the same magnitude as aircraft passenger deaths per km, though I can't find those statistics in precisely the same form.