Before you dismiss the headline as ridiculous, please consider the facts. The crotch groping, naked scanning and long security lines have driven many people to void the airport and take to the road. Terrorists would have to blow up 4 planes full of passengers a month to equal the carnage that occurs on our highways.
TSA is killing us...
Compare the dangers of air travel to those of driving. To make flying
as dangerous as using a car, a four-plane disaster on the scale of 9/11
would have to occur every month, according to analysis published in the
American Scientist. Researchers at Cornell University suggest that
people switching from air to road transportation in the aftermath of the
9/11 attacks led to an increase of 242 driving fatalities per
month—which means that a lot more people died on the roads as an
indirect result of 9/11 than died from being on the planes that terrible
day. They also suggest that enhanced domestic baggage screening alone
reduced passenger volume by about 5 percent in the five years after
9/11, and the substitution of driving for flying by those seeking to
avoid security hassles over that period resulted in more than 100 road
fatalities.
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