Originally Posted by
ItsJustMe
Here's a good question. Do you base how you live your life on statistics?
No, I was bike-commuting before that article, and I'll continue after (and would after anyways even if it showed statistically, validly, that biking is more dangerous than driving -- but I would be armed with information that would help me take increased precautions)
But really the article is not for preaching at the choir; it is for helping to educate the masses who do not bike because they think (unfoundedly feel) it's too dangerous, a thought which is false, and which might be successfully rebutted with a statistical argument.