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Re: Petrol & diesel vehicles ban (2040).
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Originally Posted by Chris
The safety record of the early decades of civil aviation springs to mind here. There were some horrific incidents involving large loss of life, on well known western airlines, at US and European airports. It was enough of a talking point to secure a movie franchise in the 1970s (Airport, and then a couple of spoofs, Airplane!). But the benefits and overall safety of the civil jet airliner far outweighed the risks, so they have continued, and the disasters have informed safety improvements so that these days*, the only places you really hear of plane crashes are with the poorly maintained fleets of developing countries.
*Human agency notwithstanding
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just a few decades of large loss of life to look forward to then while the boffins iron out the lethal side of driverless killer cars 
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