Why don't airlines give parachutes?

[che]

All this is great for the average idiot, but theyre not the ones I'm concerned about. I can find a way for myself to survive given a slower velocity and altitude, and a new plane model with a legit escape exit. I just don't feel good putting my own life in the hands of others. Same thing with roller coasters. At least while driving my own car I can feel like I'm in control and can avoid other idiots. Maybe I'll just have to get rich so I can fly my own private jet around so I feel like I'm not relying on others. I hate that feeling.

[Merlin]

Flying nowadays is too much of a hassle anyway. By the time you get through all the security BS, the flight delays, etc... I can drive the same distance and get there faster. Not in all cases of course, but a colleague of mine had such an experience recently. By the time she got back home, she had wasted 9 hours to go from Florida to South Carolina in airports. She could have drove that distance in 8 hours and it would have been cheaper.

I do somehow feel "safer" in my car than I do with other means of transportation, but then I watch one of those police video shows and remember just how untrue that feeling is. No matter how safe you are, all it takes is some guy running from the cops blazing through a stop light at 100 mph and you're ejected from your car/smashed/etc before you even realize he ran the light. It is far more likely than a plane crash. That actually struck home just two weeks ago. A new employee at my job was starting his first day. He pulled out of the badge office and was struck and killed by another employee who fell asleep behind the wheel on his way home (we have multiple shifts). This place drives safety up your ass all day every day and it happened here of all places. I'll take that airplane any day (if it wasn't for the damned delays and bogus security checks).