Obligatory, that's not what the name means, the Dangeous part of the title is taken from one of the pilot ranks, which means the "pilot" is dangerous, it has no reference to whether or not the game itself is dangerous, players actually have almost full control over that and can make it as dangerous or easy as they like. Actually the OP could grab one mission per cargo run that sends elite level mission NPC's after them just to make it as dangerous as he wants it to be, but then he would get blown up and lose all his cargo. The OP doesn't actually want it dangerous, because that would kill his 100m per round trade route if got killed 2 or 3 times every round.
