“We can see the wreckage and the situation does not look good,” the head of lran’s Red Crescent, Pirhossein Kolivand, told state TV.

  • Praise Idleness
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    327 days ago

    Car isn’t much safer if we count all the factors.

    • FuglyDuck
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      26 days ago

      Cars become a lot safer when they close entire stretches of highways for you, the driver is a professionally trained driver, and never gets distracted or drunk while driving; and you’re driving something heavily up-armored.

      Helicopters are very complicated machines for whom total engine failure inevitably leads to a crash- a crash that generally people can’t walk away from.

      Yes it’s possible to safely land a helicopter without power- and most everywhere doing so is part of pilot training for rotary licenses. Those training landings are a) known, b) in ideal locations where it’s safe to land, c) generally in an aircraft that hasn’t lost control.

      Even then, they fuck it up they’re dead.

    • @DudeImMacGyver
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      Cars are dangerous, and for many people it is, by far, the most dangerous activity they take part every single day. I also don’t like being in them.

      My daily “driver” is almost always a bicycle, I only drive when I have to or on the rare occasion I feel like a drive do I take a car. I’ve lost 30 lbs, feel better than I have in years, saved a ton on gas, and lowered my carbon footprint significantly. Cars are still a danger of course, but the health benefits outweigh the risks.