• psx_crab@lemmy.zip
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    17 days ago

    as you can clearly look at the miles biked and driven and see that the deaths per mile are massively higher.

    Two thing:

    1. so does walking. Pedestrian death is significantly higher than bicycle death in US. Does that mean you should stop walking? :D

    2. cyclist doesn’t ride 200miles to visit their grandma, and more often than not the trip tend to be short per day. Car driver tend to live further from everywhere(look at suburb), that mean in a single day they travel more, so of course car could rake up more non-incident mile than pedestrian and bicycle. Even in Netherlands, the cycling haven, in 2023 the death per billion km is 15.6, despite having 270 cyclist death in the whole country, and despite cycling being a part of their life there.

    It looks damning if you only know how to take the statistic on face value, but in reality? It’s not. And let’s not talk about where the danger come from.

    What you are posting is that its possible for it to be less dangerous than before mediation

    DUH, you’re the one that saying bicycle is a laughable solution, yet city has been trying that way, so let’s not shift the goal.