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Old 05-16-10, 10:11 AM
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Originally Posted by dougmc
... it's a guess... especially for cyclists, is a guess... I also imagine... but I do believe that ... if he should bike or if he should ride, and if he decides to drive today, the odds of him arriving at work uninjured are higher than if he rode...
some guesses are more accurate than others (for a number of reasons)

Originally Posted by dougmc
If cars were limited to bicycle speeds, deaths and injuries would go way down, perhaps by an order or two of magnitude? And if you sped bicycles up to cars speeds, well, they'd be motorcycles with a death rate increased by an order of magnitude.
it sounds here like you are concurring that because of a cars speed, the car is a more dangerous vehicle.
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