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You have to separate out what feels safe from what is safe; our intuition isn't always up to the task of sorting that out. (There's the usual example of airplan
by phyzome 10y ago
You have to separate out what feels safe from what is safe; our intuition isn't always up to the task of sorting that out. (There's the usual example of airplane travel being very safe, but people being scared of it.)
I bet there's also some complexity here around incidents vs. injuries vs. deaths.
- ZeroGravitas 10y agoAnother complexity is that one thing that makes a big difference to cyclist's safety, is the number of people who cycle, so you can have a vicious or virtuous cycle of people taking up cycling and making it safer, or people giving up cycling and making it less safe.