Plane and train crashes are much bigger deals than car crashes. You hear about every single one of them. You don't hear about the thousands of fatal car accidents that happen each day. Stop being such a sheep.
and surprisingly too, they made three crappy movies that insulted everyone who died on the titanic. (reviews of all three)
How have you made it this far in life with absolutely no critical thinking skills or reasoning ability at all? Genuinely curious. Are you able to go to school anymore?
If the news was full of successful flights and safe travel it wouldn't be able to report on anything important or interesting, the news never reports on things going properly or success except about sports.
They're in the news because they're much more likely to kill and involve more people. However, they happen very infrequently. Car crashes, on the other hand, are usually non-lethal but they occur extremely frequently. There are generally around 2 plane crashes WORLDWIDE per month. There are around 6 car crashes per DAY in my city, which has less than a million people. You don't even have to do any math to know that there are several orders of magnitude more car crashes than plane crashes. Take a look at some recent plane crashes: http://www.planecrashinfo.com/recent.htm So in a plane crash, a plane is more dangerous, however the likelyhood of a crash is so much smaller than a car that it offsets the danger of the crash itself. Thus, it's significantly safer to fly than drive.
Make that same list but with car crashes. It'd be too big to fit on a webpage. Also the chance of survival is not 0%, it is actually 95.7% believe it or not. Like I said, flying is the safest way of transport. My uncle is a pilot for 32 years now who has never had an accident, and my father goes on business trips often - about 8 a year - and has never even had anything such as an emergency landing. EDIT: To add to my point, the list you showed was 33 examples. 33. In 2010, there were an estimated 5,419,000 car crashes (30,296 fatal crashes), killing 32,999 and injuring 2,239,000 IN THE US ALONE.
I wonder how walking compares to flying? Presumably walking would be more dangerous. I also wonder if suicides contribute to those numbers, since it's not uncommon for people to jump in front of trains. In terms of train crashes it seems pretty strange that they still happen. Then again, being someone who travels on them about 10 times a year it's a miracle they don't go flying of the tracks more often considering how rough certain sections of rail are. Also wonder if that includes trams in rail too, not sure how big that number would be but there was a fairly large tram incident in the UK not all that long ago.
In the UK, one person getting killed and 6 people seriously injured makes it onto the main national news
So what you're saying is, your friend of a friend rolled a Pathfinder due to this maneuver: SUVs like the Pathfinder have a high center of gravity, making them incredibly prone to rolling over, and what your friend of a friend did was simply demonstrate that.
In the United States, Donald Trump making a tweet gets a higher media priority than an earthquake. Or totally replaces the story about it all together.
Yes. I wasn't there, I didn't see it, but he must have screwed it up in some way because you should be able to do that in a modern suv.
I think you can do a reverse 180 in a modern SUV if you disable traction control and electronic stability control on them. I don't know why car companies are trying to make cars idiot-proof nowadays with blind spot detection, forward collision warning, autobrake, etc...
Because people are idiots. Plus stability control is not going to make a car less stable in the hands of a high school student trying to do a reverse 180 in a parking lot. The reason a lot of SUVs don't roll over these days is heavily in part due to stability control, since a lot of them would fail the elk test without it. As for all of the stuff trying to make the cars uncrashable, it's a good way for them to test and improve their self driving tech on the road without being responsible if a crash happens. While also having the upshot of preventing a whole load of accidents. Plus in Europe it is now basically required to get a 5 star encap safety rating.
You can drink on an airplane. can't even drink in a car even if your not driving where I live. nothing like a bloody Mary at 10km altitude when your catching a late night flight to San Francisco and you can't sleep on planes for some reason. how can you not feel safe knowing that whoever in the cockpit isn't flying the plane, Is probably playing GBA classics and sipping on duty free redbull.
