During 2009, motor vehicles in Canada traveled 13 trillion km.
• Over this time, there were 2035 motor vehicle fatalities; 55% of these were drivers and 22% were passengers.
• You are about to drive 4700 km to Vancouver, but your mother feels this is an outrageous risk and offers to pay for a plane ticket.
• Knowing that air travel is considered the safest form of transportation (at 0.056 fatalities per billion passenger-km) you think about this:
• The trip by air will be shorter than driving (since planes can travel along great circle routes the distance is only 3400 km) but you must take a taxi 20 km to and from the airport.
