Outside of a brief aside in the movie Fight Club and what I assume are economic reasons, I’ve never seen good compelling reasons why airplanes are grounded for accidents, while cars do not seem to undergo the same level of scrutiny?
Is it just because cars are tested more before they enter the market?
From an outsider’s perspective, it seems that airplanes are already much safer than cars- so what gives?
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Planes are way more regulated than cars because of how lethal an unrecoverable accident (or operator error) is.
A serious safety defect in a car will result in a shrill recall notice. But it’s difficult for any one system on a car to endanger people the way a bad autopilot or structural element on a plane will.
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