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Everything is a death trap

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Personally, I prefer that my death traps have seat belts, air bags, and a steering wheel so that I can control where I'm going.

After all, when was the last time you heard a news report of a car being blown into power lines?

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That's dumb logic. You're assuming that you can control the drunk in an 18 wheeler who swerves into your lane at the last second going 75 mph in the opposite direction, killing you instantly.

Death trap. You get into one everyday. How about an elevator? What if it malfunctions and you go into a free fall? Doubt you take the stairs every day "just to be in control".

This sort of logic is what allows the terrorists to win.

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To be honest, life is a nothing but a death trap, and one in which we only have the most minimal of control over. Therefore my ability to try and exert as much control as possible within those parameters while minimalizing the dangers inherent therein is my utmost concern.

Therefore, I don't walk around on the ledges of one hundred story buildings in high winds, or fly in hot air balloons with no means of positive control, and which offer no protection other than an fragile open wicker basket.

Then again, we all have different levels of what we consider to be acceptable risk. But to say we should completely throw all reasonable precaution to the wind because a car might crash, or an elevator might malfunction, is absurd.