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Parachuting/skydiving is incredibly low risk compared to the average person's perception. The us had 9 deaths last year in 3.8 million skydives.
Wing suit usage has a similar number, IF you don't include base jumpers, which you shouldn't, because it's fundamentally a very, very different sport that happens to use (almost) the same equipment. You wouldn't include each bump in a nascar race as an accident and lump it into driving statistics, I would hope, nor do the same for people hiking in the woods and people fist fighting bears in the woods.
Considering I travel a mile or two, give or take, on each canopy flight when I jump, that's 9 deaths in ~8 million miles. Wing suits have a much better glide ratio when flying, so that would change things up as well. I'm curious how that would hold up to walking. Using the other feller's number of 4000 pedestrian deaths (on stairs) in germany, and estimating they walk 3 miles a day in a country of ~83 million, that's 249 million miles, giving us 1.6x10^-5, while skydiving is 2.4x10^-6.
But really... who would consider those activities as a mode of transport anyway?
Huh, well I am apparently wrong then.
Thanks for the correction!
As to who would consider them a mode of transportation... ... James Bond? Ethan Hunt?
lol, it was meant as a joke.
I'm on lemmy...
what's a joke?
Uh, the US commuter train system?