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Every time you enter a car there is a higher chance of "will I die during this trip" than when you enter a plane.
Yes the "chance to survive a plane crash" is lower than the "chance to survive a car crash" but the chance to ever be in a plane crash is incredibly low, even when you factor in the number of cars vs number of planes etc.
Yeah you get it, exactly. The way they used to describe airplane safety back in the 90s seemed based on "chance to be in a plane crash," and while those numbers were pretty reassuring, the numbers for "chance to survive a plane crash" were not.