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And here's my problem. Lives saved/taken is not the only dichotomy present, yet that is the one focused on my proponents for ebikes. Injuries sustained is much
by cheschire 1y ago
And here's my problem. Lives saved/taken is not the only dichotomy present, yet that is the one focused on my proponents for ebikes.
Injuries sustained is much more difficult to quantify yet it's the more interesting comparison. The article says the ratio is 120 to 1 of lives taken by cars vs ebikes. I think that is because a car accident is significantly more likely to kill the pedestrian rather than only injure them. I would be interested in reading how many pedestrians are injured at all by other people's ebikes vs other people's cars.
- onlyrealcuzzo 1y agoMy crystal ball isn't working, but I'm going out on a limb and doubting it's even 120x as many - which would be less total bike injuries than exclusively car deaths... It's also estimated that there's 10-50x as many car injuries as car-related deaths... Which means even to get to the injury rate of cars - you're looking for, potentially, as many 6000x as many serious bike accidents. It's possible, but it doesn't seem likely.
- AdamN 1y agoThis is important but I've seen a car hit a pedestrian in NYC and no long term injury and no police. So any stats would need projected, science-backed 'real' numbers to drive policy, not just what's reported.
- giraffe_lady 1y agoMy city doesn't track injuries by vehicle with this granularity yet but injuries involving cars here are deep into the tens of thousands per year. I would also be uh, interested, in seeing how bikes could possibly compare.