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People are notoriously bad at evaluating catastrophic failure event chances.

Most people will say: "Yeah, it's a big unsafe (they won't even phrase it like that), but I will be more careful and it will be all right".

Then the next day they'll go to that party and drive home tipsy.

The cognitive dissonance won't even register.