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Originally Posted by tompe
I think you get a higher expected bad outcome for cars. So I do not think this is a reason. I think it is a psychological reason and the fact that you overestimate the risks when you get a lot of news reports about airplane crashes (but no reports about car crashes).
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I don't agree. Plane crashes happen very rarely, but when they do, dozens or hundreds of people die. Car crashes happen a lot, but when they do, only relatively small numbers of people die. This is partly because planes carry up to 500 people and cars only carry up to about 7, but mainly because car crashes are very survivable whereas plane crashes just aren't.
Yes, there's psychology in the fact that we spend less time worrying about deaths for car accidents than any other cause of death. But, with respect to plane crashes, there's that simple reason - they don't happen much, but when they do they're always very bad.