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Americans’ confidence in air travel falls after string of plane crashes, poll shows (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 11 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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A new AP-NORC poll shows that Americans’ confidence in air travel has declined after several fatal plane crashes in 2025.

Only 64% now believe flying is safe, down from 71% last year, while the number of those who feel it is unsafe rose by 12%.

Confidence in pilots, air traffic controllers, and the federal government has also dropped. Recent crashes, including a deadly collision over Washington, D.C., have fueled public concern.

Meanwhile, Trump has begun firing hundreds of FAA employees, raising further safety worries.

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[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah, and it can be defeated with elementary school level math, so anyone in government who agreed to fund it should be brought back to school (though they are probably just more corrupt than stupid).

Everyone in the industry tries to focus on how fast a hyperloop can go, and tries to keep any criticism focused on the engineering challenges (and to be clear, there are many, many engineering and safety challenges).

It should never be discussed as "LA to the Bay in X minutes", it needs to be discussed in terms of passengers per hour.

Given that these vehicles travel very fast, passengers will need to remain seated while the vehicle is in motion. Let's pretend that the occupants of each vehicle are capable of leaving the vehicle with their luggage in under the FAA's targeted evacuation time of 90 seconds (even though luggage makes it take like 10x that). That's 40 loads per hour, and let's be generous and say they fit 40 people, that's 1600 people per hour.

That puts it on par with a lane of car traffic. Maybe you can squeeze some more people in there, or really crack a whip to get people out quick, but you won't be able to get to a fraction of the passengers per hour of high speed rail at ~20,000.

When you actually do calculations with all the other factors, you get ~350 passengers per hour.