Originally Posted by
ericm979
30,000 people die in car accidents each year. I know an entire family that was killed. Yet we all still drive.
People are bad at calculating risk.
Try getting out early on weekend mornings.
That's like saying less than one person dies by falling into lava each year, so it's perfectly safe to go skip around on the lip of a volcano cauldron. The logic doesn't work.
For just about any given trip on a road, the chance of dying on riding bike is way higher than if you did the same trip in a car. The reason so many less cyclists die a year is because there are so many less man hours spent on a bicycle on the road.
As a cyclist who rides on the road, your chances of getting hurt are high. As a random lazy person who doesn't own a bike, your chances are zero. What kinda people do you think we're talking about in this thread?