> Air travel is only significantly safer per-km, per-journey it's not at all safer
Of course there are far more car journeys taken than plane ones, so the GP's point stands (and since the point was just to make an analogy, unless you disagree that plane crashes get far more news coverage than car crashes, I'm not sure what the point of disagreement was).
(note those numbers also come from the UK, 1990-2000. If you took the numbers from the US, the car fatalities would be significantly higher (per capita or per km) and if they were from the last decade the air fatalities far lower)
Of course there are far more car journeys taken than plane ones, so the GP's point stands (and since the point was just to make an analogy, unless you disagree that plane crashes get far more news coverage than car crashes, I'm not sure what the point of disagreement was).
(note those numbers also come from the UK, 1990-2000. If you took the numbers from the US, the car fatalities would be significantly higher (per capita or per km) and if they were from the last decade the air fatalities far lower)