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Nobody ever stabbed me in my car.

tehwebguy 1y ago
Nobody ever stabbed you on the subway either lmao
vel0city 1y ago
You don't have to be stabbed for a fellow driver to kill you. They just have to look at their phone or have too many drinks at the bar or not realize how much their new meds are affecting them or underestimate how tired they are.
dangus 1y ago
If you normalize transit assault rates versus car crash injury rates (in other words, assume we all take transit instead of cars and normalize based on 2% trips being transit by multiplying the transit statistics by 98/2), the car crash injury rate is still 4x higher than the transit assault injury rate. If you combine all transit deaths plus assault deaths (again, normalized) you are still at a lower than car crash deaths. I based this on 2019 statistics. Per trip you are 4x more likely to be injured in a car crash than be injured in a transit assault incident. I realize this is all napkin math and could be wrong, but I really want to emphasize just how crazy high the car crash injury and death statistics are. Over 6 million car crashes happen per year. 2 million+ car crash injuries, and close to 40,000 deaths. Transit assaults and other incidents of the sort really are a rarity in comparison to all the ways driving can injure you. The only thing that your car gives you is the ignorant bliss of believing you are in control and nobody else can affect you. The last thing to keep in mind is that getting assaulted while on transit doesn't necessarily mean you were a random victim. A lot or imagine possibly most most assaults are happening between people who know each other. In that case, public transit is merely a neutral location for the incident. And the other last thing to keep in mind is that transit users are healthier with better cardiovascular rates and lower rates of obesity. Every 1% of increased transit use is associated with .2% lower obesity rate. Heart disease kills a whole lot more people than transit assaults.

Nobody ever stabbed you on the subway either lmao

You don't have to be stabbed for a fellow driver to kill you. They just have to look at their phone or have too many drinks at the bar or not realize how much their new meds are affecting them or underestimate how tired they are.

dangus 1y ago

If you normalize transit assault rates versus car crash injury rates (in other words, assume we all take transit instead of cars and normalize based on 2% trips being transit by multiplying the transit statistics by 98/2), the car crash injury rate is still 4x higher than the transit assault injury rate. If you combine all transit deaths plus assault deaths (again, normalized) you are still at a lower than car crash deaths. I based this on 2019 statistics. Per trip you are 4x more likely to be injured in a car crash than be injured in a transit assault incident. I realize this is all napkin math and could be wrong, but I really want to emphasize just how crazy high the car crash injury and death statistics are. Over 6 million car crashes happen per year. 2 million+ car crash injuries, and close to 40,000 deaths. Transit assaults and other incidents of the sort really are a rarity in comparison to all the ways driving can injure you. The only thing that your car gives you is the ignorant bliss of believing you are in control and nobody else can affect you. The last thing to keep in mind is that getting assaulted while on transit doesn't necessarily mean you were a random victim. A lot or imagine possibly most most assaults are happening between people who know each other. In that case, public transit is merely a neutral location for the incident. And the other last thing to keep in mind is that transit users are healthier with better cardiovascular rates and lower rates of obesity. Every 1% of increased transit use is associated with .2% lower obesity rate. Heart disease kills a whole lot more people than transit assaults.