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This is an interesting comparison, but I think it unfairly favours rockets because you seem to be calculating chance of fatality of each passenger/driver.

Typically astronauts will have less than 10 flights, whereas a driver could have 10,000 trips in a car.



Typically you won't be driving (or riding in) a car for up to a year non-stop (without so much as a fuel stop), either; I feel like that offsets the quantity of trips to at least some extent.




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