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> America has the world’s safest air travel but sucks so bad at car safety

Yes, because any moron is allowed to drive.

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Everybody deserves freedom of movement regardless of how smart you think they are.

At every driver's ed they teach you that driving is a privilege, not a right.

You are free to take the bus or ride a bike if one is incapable of driving safely. The rest of society isn't forced to suffer.

There are too many parts of the continent with zero bus transit where distances between any two points make bicycling infeasible. In those places the alternative to driving is not traveling at all. Until those can be equalized then yes I do consider driving a right even for the people you look down upon.

So should everyone be allowed to fly whatever plane they want in whatever airspace they want because there are parts to the country where even cars aren't a viable means of transportation?

I'm obviously talking about populated places.

Yes, me too. There are towns in Alaska with no roads in or out.

> There are too many parts of the continent with zero bus transit where distances between any two points make bicycling infeasible. In those places the alternative to driving is not traveling at all.

Or having someone competent drive you. There isn’t a right to travel anywhere in the world at the speed of your choosing – someone who is unwilling to drive responsibly shouldn’t be allowed to endanger everyone else because they don’t want to find a ride.

You're talking about what people should be allowed to do, which is not what I'm talking about.

I'm explaining why the safety of driving vs flying are so different. And the reason is that any moron is allowed to drive.

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