On 500 mile trip to, and from, in last 3 weeks I was conscious of heightened need for 'defensive driving skills'. Found myself on the look-out for escape routes from highway. Would going for guard rail dump us into a ravine, or just a forested (!) shoulder? Another even longer trip comes up next week…
On 500 mile trip to, and from, in last 3 weeks I was conscious of heightened need for 'defensive driving skills'. Found myself on the look-out for escape routes from highway. Would going for guard rail dump us into a ravine, or just a forested (!) shoulder? Another even longer trip comes up next week, for a family funeral (don't know if vax related), ---I have even more concern for oddities in driving. But it's another reason for not taking a plane there. I have been on guard for this for at least a year--figuring that on the highway you have at least some hope of escaping the madman while you are at the wheel--in a plane, say your prayers when the pilot goes down.
Journalist and author Salena Zito, who travels a lot in the heartland, interviewing people and getting a feel for how average folk are thinking, said or tweeted that she never takes an expressway, but only the old U.S. highways, and never eats in a chain restaurant (or stays in a chain hotel? this one seems challenging). Anyway, you can set your map app to avoid expressways, and it's *such* a pleasant way to travel! It takes a bit longer, but I don't care.
Personally, I don't fear the plane rides at all, because commercial airlines always have at least one copilot, and all those in the cockpit can fly the jet, plus there's autopilot for those few moments of panic when the pilot is stroking out.
As far as I know, cars and trucks don't have that.
I would not, however, get on a SINGLE-pilot plane. Way too many crashes lately.
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On 500 mile trip to, and from, in last 3 weeks I was conscious of heightened need for 'defensive driving skills'. Found myself on the look-out for escape routes from highway. Would going for guard rail dump us into a ravine, or just a forested (!) shoulder? Another even longer trip comes up next week, for a family funeral (don't know if vax related), ---I have even more concern for oddities in driving. But it's another reason for not taking a plane there. I have been on guard for this for at least a year--figuring that on the highway you have at least some hope of escaping the madman while you are at the wheel--in a plane, say your prayers when the pilot goes down.
Journalist and author Salena Zito, who travels a lot in the heartland, interviewing people and getting a feel for how average folk are thinking, said or tweeted that she never takes an expressway, but only the old U.S. highways, and never eats in a chain restaurant (or stays in a chain hotel? this one seems challenging). Anyway, you can set your map app to avoid expressways, and it's *such* a pleasant way to travel! It takes a bit longer, but I don't care.
Personally, I don't fear the plane rides at all, because commercial airlines always have at least one copilot, and all those in the cockpit can fly the jet, plus there's autopilot for those few moments of panic when the pilot is stroking out.
As far as I know, cars and trucks don't have that.
I would not, however, get on a SINGLE-pilot plane. Way too many crashes lately.