Kayak customers can exclude Max 9 aircraft after cabin panel blowout on Alaska Airlines flight

Online travel agent allows customers to filter out Boeing 737 Max planes::Kayak customers can exclude Max 9 aircraft after cabin panel blowout on Alaska Airlines flight

  • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
    10·
    11 months ago

    But all those articles about Boeing issues will get more people to drive. It’s ironic how fighting for higher flying safety standards can kill people. The surplus in car crash fatalities in the months after 9/11 was higher than the number of passengers on all the planes involved.

    • MrBusiness@lemmy.zipEnglish
      10·
      11 months ago

      We need more trains in North America. From my experience between planes, trains, and automobiles (and boats) trains have been the best experience.

      • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        They’d also be the easiest to make self-driving.

        Don’t want to deal with things like lane changes, identifying traffic signals, erratic drivers, etc? Just focus on self driving trains instead. They go back and forth on a set path, on a set schedule, and can automatically watch for things like people/animals/debris on the tracks, electronically receive stop/go signals, etc…

        All the focus is on self-driving cars, when it really should be on trains.

      • puppy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        “Knocks on wood”. Japan’s bullet trains have zero fatalities after more than 60 years of service. Trains are the absolute safest if managed properly.

      • Zink@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        I’m one of those people that likes to get a window seat and occasionally check out the views and marvel at what is really going on at that moment.

        But the flying experience sucks. If there was an option to chill in a comfy train to replace short and medium flights, I would be right there with you.

    • Zink@programming.devEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      It really is insane how many people’s perception of safety is so completely opposite to reality.