Something i have not seen in any statistics is the cost in lives of all of this security that is for our own good. We have added even more cost in dollars and time to the safest way to travel all in the name of making flying safer. As flying becomes more expensive and down right unfriendly more and more people are going to drive which is substantially less safe. Are there any statistics that show how many more people will die because they didn't fly?

And i know that peoples perceptions have a great deal to do with the "value" of increased security. As an example, my sister in law worked for a banking transaction company and she was part of the disaster recovery team. She and one of her coworkers were required to go to another data center several states away for a disaster drill. Now this was before 911 and my sister in law and her coworker were not allowed to fly on the same airplane because of safety concerns, but they were allowed to drive together to get from the office to the airport. When i asked her about it being more dangerous for the two of them to be in the same car than on the same plane, she replied that when several people in the same company die on a plane crash it makes national news. So management decided that this was a perceived threat that the company could avoid whether or not it made sense.