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Motorcycles are not safe, and certainly not safer than cars. However, you can reduce the extreme fatality rate significantly if you cut out drunk riding and eve
by sotix 2y ago
Motorcycles are not safe, and certainly not safer than cars. However, you can reduce the extreme fatality rate significantly if you cut out drunk riding and even more so if you have more than six months of experience and wear all the gear all the time. It’s a risky activity that attracts people that don’t make smart decisions. When I got my license, the five others in my class all owned a motorcycle and rode them for a year without a license or training.
It’s a weird activity that’s simultaneously very unsafe due to car drivers but also due to the average rider themselves.
- ambyra 2y agoI think that’s limited to the US. In Thailand, kids ride motorcycles from a very young age, and don’t exhibit the crazy driving on that they do here. I think if more families drove motorcycles, it would no longer be considered cool or extreme, and that behavior would disappear. It reminds me of the high drinking age situation in the United States. When people here start drinking, they end up in emergency room, which is not the case in Europe, where they have a much lower drinking age.
- resolutebat 2y agoTraffic fatalities in Thailand are the highest in SE Asia and 73% of them are on motorcycles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in_Thailand_by_year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i...
- ambyra 2y agoThis is not necessarily from extreme behavior, most Thai are on relatively slow scooters.
- kjkjadksj 2y agoThe average age of first drink in the us is like 16 years old. The law doesn’t stop anyone from drinking it just serves to ruin peoples lives with a criminal record for behavior a huge percent of people engage with.