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Re:In Colorado, an Ambitious New Highway Policy Is Not Build... by sotix on Friday May 31, 2024 @02:01PM (#40538363)
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.

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Re:In Colorado, an Ambitious New Highway Policy Is Not Build... by ambyra on Friday May 31, 2024 @04:42PM (#40540013)
I 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.
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Re:In Colorado, an Ambitious New Highway Policy Is Not Build... by resolutebat on Saturday June 01, 2024 @05:12PM (#40549107)
Traffic 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_i...

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Re:In Colorado, an Ambitious New Highway Policy Is Not Build... by ambyra on Sunday June 02, 2024 @09:34PM (#40558572)
This is not necessarily from extreme behavior, most Thai are on relatively slow scooters.
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Re:In Colorado, an Ambitious New Highway Policy Is Not Build... by kjkjadksj on Saturday June 01, 2024 @06:55PM (#40549815)
The 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.
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