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I'm not sure that makes much sense as a safety metric, bicycles obviously travel less distance on average per instance used, so the 'rate of death' would not ha
by f_devd 4y ago
I'm not sure that makes much sense as a safety metric, bicycles obviously travel less distance on average per instance used, so the 'rate of death' would not have the same scaling as distance traveled
- lacker 4y agoWell, when I'm considering biking or driving my car, the destination is fixed. I can drive 2 miles to the store or I can bike 2 miles to the store. I'm not choosing between, should I take an average bicycle trip right now, or should I take an average car trip right now. So the danger per mile does seem like the relevant metric there.
- f_devd 4y agoYou are correct in your consideration, but above 15 kilometers bicycling is not an option while using a car is, so the cars have a hugely larger average drive distance which skews the metric making it effectively useless.