Fire, the second safest way to travel!

alixxlove · 5 months

I feel like the odds of dying in a car wreck are lower than 1 in 125.

hello_toast · 5 months

I'd like to know what the odds are of dying when it come to travelling by trebuchet...

Varsted · 5 months

That's only because they haven't perfected the floo network yet.

Flutterdash14 · 5 months

Second safest indeed

alittlelamb · 5 months

Ahh, I remember that book. Prentice Hall's 'Drive Right,' right?

Scoldering · 5 months

You're trying to tell me that a little under 1% of all people are gonna die in a car crash?

InsertEnigmaHere · 5 months

Then I shall never travel in a yellow Dodge Stratus.

CandleJakk · 5 months

Who travels by fire?

Squalor- · 5 months

What are the odds of dying in a car whose engine caught fire in a plane?

puskunk · 5 months

Those of us who ride motorcycles disagree.

PShireman · 5 months

HAH i have the exact same drivers ed textbook! Now im mad at myself for not using that for karma...

eviloperator · 5 months

The problem is I drive every day and since I'm poor I fly only twice a year.

citizennumber3 · 5 months

The first time I flew on an airplane, the stranger sitting across from me tried to comfort me by mentioning this fact. "You're way more likely to die in a car crash." All I could think was, "Wow, cool. I wasn't really afraid of the plane crashing but NOW I'm afraid to simply, you know, do anything requiring mobility." She never warned me about traveling by fire, though...

Bitch.

shutupjoey · 5 months

I drive on the 401 for a living. Fuck my life.

omnithrope · 5 months

This is patently false. I get to work by fire every day and I've yet to have a problem.

that_guitar_guy · 5 months

I've only ever been in a car 124 times in my life. Guess I'm never getting in one again.

AntiTheory · 5 months

As a furry, I try to avoid using fire as a method of transportation.

ebolabandit · 5 months

dem floo powder accidents. stupid wizards.

iamthewillrus · 5 months

Cars have the statistical advantage, or rather disadvantage, of being used all the time. Almost no one uses planes everyday

Joe_the_Barbarian · 5 months

Now "Chariots of Fire" finally makes sense.

crazyshitwouldhappen · 5 months

Did you find this in a drivers ed book?! Saw this yesterday, in the book.

Anglach3l · 5 months

Well done with the title...

Notrub42 · 5 months

Yes my driver's ed book had ridiculous statements like this.

"If the oil level is below the line that says add 1 quart, then add a quart of oil." (Just for an example.)

Anyun · 5 months

Maybe they meant floo powder...

freddit25 · 5 months

"DIAGON ALLEY"
"What did he say?"
"I think he said diagonally?"

Katykakle · 5 months

floo powder it is.

suddenly_ponies · 5 months

These statistics are such crap. IF your car crashes, your survival rate is probably greater than 20%. If a plane does, your survival rate is lower than 2%.

This is marketing at work folks, ignore it

TheLonelyCloud · 5 months

Oh shit, I had that exact same drivers Ed book. Boring as hell. Ah,that brings me back.

veterejf · 5 months

I hate how statistics like this don't have a context. Maybe I just am missing something? 1 in 125 what die in a car crash? In a year, of people that die? Idk, I don't get it.

co2gamer · 5 months

Motor bikes?

amurphy7 · 5 months

I remember this exact book from driver's ed in high school. Glad someone else noticed this.

tylerxedge · 5 months

HOLY SHIT!

I remember seeing that in my drivers-ed class book. Now I have PROOF AND MY MOM CAN STOP MAKING FUN OF ME!

why_ask_why · 5 months

TSA agent should inspect our car, and search us, every time we try to get into a car.

kdawggg · 5 months

I'm pretty sure the odds of dying in a car crash are way lower than that. It's still pretty high, but it's no way near that number.

freddy3kid · 5 months

Well the odds are higher because you use a car more often. Nobody flies 10 miles to work, alas we do not hear of plane crashes on a daily basis

darthn3ss · 5 months

This was my drivers ed book.

Ultimate_Timmeh · 5 months

Statistics, proof that you're more likely to die in a plane crash than win the lottery.

DrMoses · 5 months

I prefer to walk on the line, travel by FIRE!

thegirlinyourcake · 5 months

SO the DMV recognizes the Floo Network now?

Esc4p3 · 5 months

Wait, is fire a mode of transportation?

farmthis · 5 months

Walking is more dangerous than driving, I believe.

"Tripping and falling" also results in more deaths than guns, both homicides and accidents.

"Bees" are an order of magnitude deadlier than terrorists.

...

People suck at evaluating risks rationally and managing their fears.

I_Have_Just_ · 5 months

What about the odds of dying from being a ViolentMasturbator ?

SoggyCheez · 5 months

I can think of more dangerous methods of transportation.

deathbytray · 5 months

Actually, if you compare the rate of accidental death per miles travelled, you'll find that fire is by far the most dangerous way to travel.

packerfan55 · 5 months

I don't think these numbers account for the fact that you drive far more than you fly. I remember a statistic similar to this in Freakonomics, and when you adjusted plane rides with car rides they were quite a bit closer, but still cars were more dangerous.

8BITBRUISER · 5 months

Me: "Hey! I came to get my license!"

Mr. License Man: "Right away sir, in what vehicular device did you want to get your license in?"

Me: "Fire please!"

MLM: "Um.. whut. Son, who told you fire was a vehicular device?"

Me: "The internet..."

swampfish · 5 months

...ignoring of course all the other more dangerous ways to travel like motorcycle, bicycles, jet-skis, snow-skis, etc...

unimpresseddriver · 5 months

So if I travel in a fire I am less likely to die than if I travel by car?

stickmansgirl · 5 months

This is a driver's ed book... am I right? The font and color look the same as my old highschool's driver's ed book. This is driving me nuts, I MUST KNOW.

mrgnome1538 · 5 months

where are you from? i have the same drivers ED book

cheese-and-candy · 5 months

Fire will always be the number one way to travel for me.

Eminian · 5 months

I saw this as : you will crash in an airplane that catches on fire then you get hit by a car. If you ask me that is a life well spent.

cobhc333 · 5 months

Hey look a car crash!

DarkLordMelkor · 5 months

I just saw this in my Drivers Ed book yesterday

[deleted] · 5 months

Yep another example of BS.

My advise so to stop reading that publication.

SkyBS · 5 months

Yup, this was my textbook.

sexybeast2015 · 5 months

I'm using this exact book, right now. Mommy?

Beulshite · 5 months

I don't know about you... But here in the wizarding world, we travel by fireplace sometimes.

seanjh63 · 5 months

You know what really bothers me? How often do people fly? Or be around huge flames -___-? In statistics, I'm pretty sure this data wouldn't fly.

Pepper_MD · 5 months

As a man with a degree in Statistics, that's fucking stupid.

tweenrave · 5 months

Maybe 1 in every 125 car accidents someone dies?

MyNarcolepticNarwhal · 5 months

Holy crap I got this book at my drivers Ed class yesterday! What state do you live in, you think we are in the same class?

TapedRapedGaped · 5 months

That's, still fucking there. Education.

RomanCandle332 · 5 months

Clearly the obvious solution is to take airplanes everywhere. To school? Yes. To work? Yes. To the mall? Yes. To a Whore House? Yes--but get a bigger airplane so you can take women back with you.

zayilatan · 5 months

Floo powder. duh

kabukistar · 5 months

Bad data anyways, because it's comparing something most people do daily (ride in a car) to something they do much less frequently (fly on a plane).

I could say that you're more likely to die in a car crash than getting shot in the chest with a cannon. It doesn't make getting shot in the chest with a cannon safer than driving.

woomahodal · 5 months

You have terrible handwriting, my good sir.

McGravin · 5 months

Odds that a plane will catch on fire and crash directly onto a car: 1 in 23 trillion.

kenmaclean · 5 months

Wrong. The most dangerous way to travel is drunkenly riding a wild bear while wearing nothing but a suit made of nitroglycerin in plastic baggies. while holding flaming scissors. Also the bear is made of chainsaws.

GoldenToenail · 5 months

Diagon alley!!!!!!

dangerous_beans · 5 months

Well, if I'm traveling by floo...

ApeX_Walrus · 5 months

I remember seeing this in my driver's ed book last year

krameratneu · 5 months

As a stats guy - the odds of dying in a plane crash are a lot closer to the odds of dying in a car crash when you look at it in a hours-of-travel-in-each type of vehicle basis

Lhabs · 5 months

The problem is that the average person travels in a car so much more than they do in an airplane

Killzark · 5 months

I've been in over 125 car rides. Checkmate statistics!

ZeeHypnotist · 5 months

Odds of dying in a car wreck are about 1 in 6500.

As in, 1 in 6500 people will die yearly on average.

Source: All these results

planification · 5 months

Yeah, commercial air is safe. But hobby pilots crash all the time. Experience makes a big difference.

pazilya · 5 months

You must work at the Florida Department Of Transportation.

buttonforest · 5 months

Floo Network users can confirm this and the dangers of mumbling your desired destination.

xoites · 5 months

For anyone looking for stats here they are:

http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s1103.pdf

No matter the numbers it seems we all need to take driving a bit more seriously.

Ashanmaril · 5 months

Wow. I'm absolutely destroying those odds.

I've been in a car WAY more than 125 times, and I haven't even died ONCE!

But in all seriousness, as someone that just finished up driver training, they make up most of those stats as scare tactics so you'll be a more cautious/defensive driver. :P

simpledistraction · 5 months

Thanks for the reminder. I totaled my car today. I'm not dead yet though!

Jwojcek · 5 months

This is in my textbook!!

[deleted] · 5 months

This picture made me laugh out loud. My sides are a bit sore from the laughter. Thanks for the post.

daedric_emperor · 5 months

I used that same textbook. It sucks ass.

mickycam · 5 months

I was being lectured on this very picture in Driver's Ed yesterday. God help the highways.

Wadegoerzen · 5 months

FLOO POWDER!!

XypherFTW · 5 months

Gotta love Florida's driver's Ed textbooks

ColdCaulkCraig · 5 months

1 : 4,600,000 and my grandparents absolutely REFUSE to fly. They would rather travel 11 hours in a car because then "the terrorists can't get them". It's pretty bad. My mom once payed $500 on plane tickets for them and they ended up canceling the trip because they didnt want to fly. My mom ended up losing a couple hundred dollars in cancellation fees.

gabachocerote · 5 months

Did this post prompt anyone else to look up lists of chances of dying from various causes? Now I feel sayd...

pointlesslyredundant · 5 months

Flu powder? Harry Potter? Someone not discussing stats? Anyone?

bejahu · 5 months

So you will die in a car wreck once in every 125 times you drive somewhere or is it you will die once in every 125 car wrecks you're in?

iam7yearsold · 5 months

This kills the human

rhubarbbus · 5 months

Who travels by fire?

Lestalia · 5 months

So, next time I nerd rage and tell someone to die in a car fire...that's fairly likely?

Tsinoyboi · 5 months

Flame on!

blowmyreddit · 5 months

Usually I don't travel in fires. Not sure about anybody else, but, not me.

aviatorzack · 5 months

Diagon Alley?

Deadforfun1 · 5 months

So this is implying that fire is a transportation method?

ehoehler · 5 months

So long as you have flu powder. Fire is also the fastest mode of transportation.

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