AD Who would have thought that driving could be safer than flying? It isn’t actually, and certainly not in India, where a life is lost every four minutes in a road accident. The pandemic, however, has turned everything on its head. With the virus still lingering, a lot of people find it safer to spend long hours (even days) on our highways, risking life and limb, rather than sit next to a stranger on a short flight. Compared to a plane, a car is your own private space, your bubble on wheels and it’s this form of isolated travel that only a car can offer, which has unwittingly rekindled the romance of the road. Driving is, indeed, the new flying.