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Measure in “trips” not miles. Measuring in miles rewards suburban culture. Highway driving isn’t where deaths happen. They happen most on urban roads.
by scoofy 4y ago
Measure in “trips” not miles. Measuring in miles rewards suburban culture. Highway driving isn’t where deaths happen. They happen most on urban roads.
- throwaway0a5e 4y agoScrew you both. Measure butt-in-seat hours.
- scoofy 4y agoThat doesn’t count people who don’t get in a car wreck, simply because they walked to buy groceries
- throwaway0a5e 4y agoAren't we comparing drivers vs drivers here? If we aren't then you're just measuring the fraction of the population that drives (which is largely a reflection of wealth and demographics) which isn't really a measurement of the safeness of the roads and driving.
- scoofy 4y agoWe’re talking about people killed trying to move around the place they live. Butt-in-seat hours is a fine way to measure automobile vs automobile stats, but when we’re talking about deaths from transportation, counting only automobile hours is silly. There are various ways to get around a city, and the way you do that hardly matters if it suits the purposes of that trip.