alt Hacker NewsYeah. This single accident was more deadly than all commercial air traffic in the EU in the past 10 years together, while 50 deaths per day is the average for car crashes in the EU. Wild orders of magnitude difference in safety.
Rough estimate: by car, you can travel from Lisbon to Talinn (4000km) 100,000 times before expecting to die; by train, almost 4 million times, by plane 400 million times.
And if you're the median person (not the average person), you can probably 3x those numbers, because such a large number of casualties in traffic are risk-seeking individuals (e.g. a drunk driver is included in "average person" but not in "median person")