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If emergency room doctors made laws, motorcycles would be illegal. We're all susceptible to being deluded by our naive realism. Like how I think anyone driving
by jp555 9y ago
If emergency room doctors made laws, motorcycles would be illegal.
We're all susceptible to being deluded by our naive realism. Like how I think anyone driving faster than me is a maniac and anyone driving slower is a moron. The objective reality is that everybody thinks that.
- kinkrtyavimoodh 9y agoOr perhaps they'd be subsidized as it brings them business :P
- Neliquat 9y agoI wish. The insurance on my R1 outweighs my other bikes and cars, combined. And I honestly can't blame them. That thing is breathtakingly fast.
- f000g00b00gar 9y agoNaive is eating animals and then complaining about our species' extinction as a result of climate change. The two are exorbitantly linked - global warming and killing animals.
- deegles 9y agoThis study found that 70% of drivers think they're "above average": http://www.theaa.ie/blog/70-of-drivers-rate-themselves-as-above-average/ http://www.theaa.ie/blog/70-of-drivers-rate-themselves-as-ab...
- antisthenes 9y agoSo 71% of the predictors are actually correct.
- JeremyBanks 9y agoThat actually seems like a pretty good metaphor, because the motorcycle is probably only legal due to historical inertia, not modern analysis. If the motorcycle were invented today, do you think it would ever be legal? In America, perhaps, but probably not in countries that are more heavy-handed with regulation and bear the costs of public healthcare. It's an insane and dangerous vehicle. I have several friends who have survived nasty car crashes and fully recovered. The only one who had a nasty motorcycle accident... well, his heart's still beating, but I'd hardly call it life.
- njharman 9y agoCars are the dangerous thing on road. Banning them would eliminate half of all motorcycle accidents, cite below. Idiots riding without helmets and being intoxicated greatly skew the fatality statistics. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcycle_safety https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcycle_safety Findings from motorcycle safety study. 75% of accidents were found to involve a motorcycle and a passenger vehicle. Almost half of the fatal accidents show alcohol involvement. In the multiple vehicle accidents, the driver of the other vehicle violated the motorcycle right-of-way and caused the accident in two-thirds of those accidents. The report's additional findings show that the wearing of appropriate gear, specifically, helmets and durable garment, mitigates crash injuries substantially The failure of motorists to detect and recognize motorcycles in traffic is the predominating cause of motorcycle accidents.
- JeremyBanks 9y ago> Per vehicle mile traveled, motorcyclists' risk of a fatal crash is 35 times greater than a passenger car. Wow, that's even worse than I expected, relative to a baseline that isn't very safe to begin with. It's unconscionable to keep these on the road.
- AstralStorm 9y agoYou meant cars of course, as they cause 75% of those accidents? (And others, often involving pedestrians.) I'd expect most of the accidents caused by motorcyclists to involve excessive speed.
- regnum 9y agoI'm open-minded, but I'll always go with the data. As Dr. Kim Williams the president of the American College of Cardiology said "There are two kinds of cardiologists: vegans and those who haven’t read the data."
- jdietrich 9y ago>If emergency room doctors made laws, motorcycles would be illegal. From a completely callous perspective, we'd miss all the healthy young organs that enter the donor pool. They don't call them "donorcycles" for nothing.