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[rm]

This is a fantastic article:

http://nymag.com/news/features/53788/

It really captures of the competing narratives and realities of modern flight (and the general conflicts we have culturally when it comes to risk vs. reliability).

That said, if you have any fear about commercial air travel, this might not be the article for you. It doesn't tell horror stories or anything like that, but finding out just how computerized it all is strikes me as pretty disturbing.

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[timiathan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and whether manual or automated, the numbers speak for themselves -- I don't care how they do it, as long as people aren't dying and getting hurt, and it's the safest way to get from one place to a far away other.

The real problem though, it's the ridiculously inefficient energy consumption. The technology is out there for an entire train system based on magnetic tubes that uses 1/1,000th the energy, and the only hurdle is that we're too lazy to invest in laying the tracks.