Social Driving or Flying - Which do you feel is safer? (Without looking at the stats)

[Takes Two To Tango]

In your gut feeling or just your subjective perspective, which do you feel is less dangerous?

I'm going to say both are dangerous to a degree. But I feel like I have no control in a plane and if something bad happens there that's it, while you feel like you have control when driving.

Even saying that driving has a lot more ways to get into an accident and you can't control how other people drive.

So it's pretty close I'd say.

 

[Osculater]

Driving because I can't afford a plane

 

[William Huggins]

Depends on the country, if it's Brazil it's definitely flying.........

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

Depends on the country, if it's Brazil it's definitely flying.........

Driving is that bad in Brazil?

 

[LEWIS540]

Pretty common knowledge that flying is statistically far safer than driving, no?

Yeah, you have no control, but that’s a good thing. Pilots are almost entirely highly trained and highly competent. Majority of drivers, not so much.

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

Pretty common knowledge that flying is statistically far safer than driving, no?

Yeah, you have no control, but that’s a good thing. Pilots are almost entirely highly trained and highly competent. Majority of drivers, not so much.

True statistically it is vastly safer, but we end up driving way more than flying. How many hours of driving do we do compare to flying?

 

[LEWIS540]

True statistically it is vastly safer, but we end up driving way more than flying. How many hours of driving do we do compare to flying?

I’m pretty sure that’s taken into account when then they work out these stats.

 

[zapataxiv]

True statistically it is vastly safer, but we end up driving way more than flying. How many hours of driving do we do compare to flying?

as a sherdogger it's definitely flying
my butler drives a custom built Charlotte pulled by four lambos
which feels safe but my planes are pilots by a race of tribal people who are raised to be pilots and all they do is fly planes
they have a complex religion where I am their overlord and the greatest honor is to serve me and pilot effectively
the males become pilots while the females are hostesses

 

[William Huggins]

Driving is that bad in Brazil?

Hahaha, it's hilarious, some of the antics......... You're traveling at 120kph with 5 cars in front stuck behind a large truck, it's night and there's heavy rain, you see the truck starting to break for a sharp bend, that's when the Toyota pickup behind you decides to start overtaking.......

And the usual, way to transport your washing machine is on a small motorbike.

 

[Frode Falch]

Driving. Because at least then I am in control myself.

 

[Dobymick]

I did a ton of flying and never had any trouble or felt unsafe. It was always uneventful

While driving I almost died twice. Even though I wasn't the one driving on both. One I was at a bus that crashed on the road at night in some kind of concrete block that was at the side of the road due to some construction going on. The other one was traveling with friends and the driver almost got us all killed crashing into a truck. Another second or two and we would be gone

So yeah, flying is definitely safer

 

[LEWIS540]

Driving. Because at least then I am in control myself.

……as opposed to the highly skilled guy in the cockpit?

And what about the other million cars on the road being driven by drunks, texters, idiots etc? Not much control of them.

 

[moreorless87]

I can tell any dislike of flying is irrational because I'm actually much more comfortable flying somewere like Nepal in a small prop plane between mountains than I am on a Jet at 30,000 feet when statistically the latter is obviously vastly safer. The idea of being in a metal tube 8 miles in the air is just unnatural though were as in the latter situation the ground is so much closer, also I can imagine jumping out in a dingy if we run out of fuel.

Also though places were flying is dodgy like Nepal most likely driving is even dodgier, the chances of a landslide or just going off a cliff into a river with no barrier.

 

[TheTickG]

In your gut feeling or just your subjective perspective, which do you feel is less dangerous?

I'm going to say both are dangerous to a degree. But I feel like I have no control in a plane and if something bad happens there that's it, while you feel like you have control when driving.

Even saying that driving has a lot more ways to get into an accident and you can't control how other people drive.

So it's pretty close I'd say.

Flying. Less people nearby to cause problems.

 

[Frode Falch]

……as opposed to the highly skilled guy in the cockpit?

And what about the other million cars on the road being driven by drunks, texters, idiots etc? Not much control of them.

I never said i was 100% safe either way. If a plane start to fail, i dont think the pilot skill level gonna do much. I myself can only sit in my seat and hope for the best. But the odds are slim. Probably death by fireball..

In my car, at least i have my own skills and reflexed. And that help alot. Together with simple tactical choices you make. When, where, and how you drive..

My biggest worry on the roads, is that i am aware of how many clueless idiots that stumble through life. With no awareness.. and most of them got a driving license.

Thats kinda scary.

But i drive not relaxed, not paranoid, but ready.

Code orange. Not red or green.. if that make sense

 

[Uber_Noober]

I prefer driving if I can, but I know flying is safer by statistics, but give Boeing another 6 months or so and the stat line might move a little.

 

[Thrawn33]

I fear more for my life driving to JFK or LaGuardia than I do flying out of it.

 

[plataoplombo]

I think if there's the same amount of planes in the sky as there cars on the road, the stats were be way different.

 

[Oblivian]

I'd be almost certain that flying is safer.

 

[Elvis.]

Flying by far , they give every jackass on earth a license to drive a car no matter how incompetent they are