Originally Posted by
spare_wheel
if measurements of risk are so fundamentally flawed then what exactly is the rationale for using safety gear X?
Custom? Tradition? Fashion?
Do you really believe that measurement/evaluation of safety/risk for pedestrians or bicycling is nothing more than providing "stats" of total fatalities and nothing more? "ACS mode share" means almost nothing as it provides only the vaguest correlation to total pedestrian or bicyclist exposure to hazard and zero relationship to all bicyclist or pedestrian exposure that occurs when not commuting. This juggling of almost random numbers supports nothing you are claiming about statistical safety.