Re:Seth Vidal, creator of yum, killed in hit and run accident
by malandrew on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @07:48PM
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That 4.7x can probably be completely attributed to all the safety equipment that protects the person in a car. A more valid metric would be accidents (not injuries) per vehicle mile traveled.
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Re:Seth Vidal, creator of yum, killed in hit and run accident
by vanderZwan on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @05:28AM
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No, it wouldn't, because that's not what we're discussing. The discussion was danger one vehicle poses to the other, and the only significant cause for bike fatalities is car accidents - there are no chasms to fall in in the flattest country in the world, and the speed at which one travels on a bike is much slower so much less likely to be fatal in case of a crash with a stationary object. So this is a very real metric of how dangerous bikes are to cars and vice versa.
EDIT: And even then it's skewed in favour of the car, because for cars the fatality rate is more likely due to crashes with other cars.