The parachute won't help you during the dangerous part of flight.

Do you know what the most fatal portion of the sport of skydiving is? Statistically, the most deaths occur during the drive to or from the airport. Now just think of how safe _commercial_ air travel is.

I can't never not think that if there were as few cars as there are planes in the sky (10k ?) road fatality stats would look very different.

That sounds like a good argument for better public transportation. Not much air travel is by general aviation.

Primarily because you can’t control how others drive