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I'm sure this epiphany now has you wear a helmet in your car, where risk of life-threatening head-trauma is significantly higher than when riding a bicycle?
by revelation 12y ago
I'm sure this epiphany now has you wear a helmet in your car, where risk of life-threatening head-trauma is significantly higher than when riding a bicycle?
- cynicalkane 12y agoUh, the risk of life-threatening head trauma is significantly lower in a car. Cars are the safest form of personal travel.
- gamache 12y agoOnly if you're inside one.
- panglott 12y agoHelmets are still the best way to reduce a lot of head injuries among motorists. Cars travel at a much higher speed than pedestrians/bicycles, so it takes a lot more to dampen the injuries, and auto-related head injuries are simply more common than bicycle-related ones. It's absolutely as reasonable to exhort motorists and pedestrians to wear helmets as it is to exhort cyclists to do so.
- stronglikedan 12y agohttp://blog.ycombinator.com/new-hacker-news-guideline http://blog.ycombinator.com/new-hacker-news-guideline
- makeitsuckless 12y agoYeah, that's exactly why I have a bit of a problem with such guidelines. It protects people from the normal consequences of insulting outer people's intelligence. Sometimes it's useful to know when your behaviour pisses other people off.
- stronglikedan 12y agoIf what I said pisses you off, then you have bigger issues to work on.
- revelation 12y agoI personally find it insulting to have the same mindless comment appear every time somebody mentions helmet. It is inevitably a story of n=1 how somebody believes his helmet did X, and usually completely and utterly misses the point of the parent comment. Just to reiterate this: if you suggest a piece of styrofoam is a useful protection in a discussion where the overwhelming risk factor is being crashed into by a 4 ton metal hunk, you're trivializing the issue and distracting away from meaningful actions.