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Bicyles aren't very dangerous. Cars, on the other hand, are a leading cause of death in basically every country on earth.
by pasabagi 4y ago
Bicyles aren't very dangerous. Cars, on the other hand, are a leading cause of death in basically every country on earth.
- UncleEntity 4y agoYeah, you only have a ~seven times higher rate of death per mile traveled as compared to a car. It’s just there are significantly more car miles traveled so more car related deaths. statistics…
- pasabagi 4y ago... 'death rate', as in, the cyclist is killed by a car.
- sandworm101 4y agoCheck your stats. In most of the largest countries (India, China, Russia etc) buses are actually more dangerous than cars. One bus crash can be more dangerous than dozens of car crashes. And my phone just had a weather alert. -35c tomorrow, possible -50c with wind chill. I'm sure I'll see not a single bicycle ... but definitely a few snow mobiles. They are ridiculously dangerous and polluting, but at least they aren't cars.
- pasabagi 4y agoI would imagine that a very large portion of all deadly crashes (buses included) involve a car. Cars are pretty safe for their drivers; they are just very dangerous for everybody else. So, if you split 'passenger deaths' by 'vehicle category' you're going to have a lot of situations where a car hits a bus/cyclist/pedestrian, the driver survives, and whoever they hit does not. This creates misleading statistics.