What Is the Safest Form of Travel
If you actually care about safety, book a flight. Then take a train to the airport. Then walk from the train station to the terminal—walking is also shockingly safe, despite what your knees think.
But the real gag is this: you’re more likely to die staying home and falling down the stairs than you are on that scary Boeing 737. Falls kill roughly 40,000 Americans a year. Planes? Maybe a dozen.
So next time you’re buckling your seatbelt on a plane, just remember that you are statistically immortal in that seat compared to the parking lot you just left.
But please, for the love of science, don’t text and drive to the airport. That’s where the real danger lives.