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When my car dies I don't drown
What kind of boat sinks when it has no power?
... do you think the engine is the only part that needs maintenance?
Do you think that it suddenly loses buoyancy?
Edit: dead implies no power, what boat requires power to float?
Last I checked a dead car doesn't erupt into flames when the power plant dies, or the transmission blows.
Boats don't sink because they can't go forward.
You can row a powerless boat like you can push a dead car.
There are many failure modes on a boat.
An engine failure can mean running around on rocks and wrecking the hull, or a failure of a through hull fitting can flood the boat, or a failure of the hull itself.
And a loss of brakes can put you over a cliff in a car.
All these failures are the same types of failures a car can have.
Cars can get you stranded and trapped.
None of what you stated makes boats any more dangerous than cars.
OK? The point was, there's a lot of failure modes that result in the boat sinking, which is an inherently bad situation to be in.
Whereas most of the ways a car can fail you result in being stranded
And there are as many failure modes that can cause harm to the *operator of a car.
The point is, when the engine dies you don't drown.
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