• mysticpickle@lemmy.ca
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    16 days ago

    Motorcycles are dangerous AF. You are actually less likely to die driving drunk in a car than fully sober on motorcycle. I’m pretty sure most folks here consider drunk driving pretty irresponsible. There’s a reason ER docs call those things “donorcycles”

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      15 days ago

      You are actually less likely to die driving drunk in a car than fully sober on motorcycle

      … because you will get hit by a drunken car driver while riding, it seems

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        14 days ago

        Not so much that but more that motorcycles have much fewer inherent safety features compared to a car like fuckin’ safety belts that keep you from flying head-first into a tree. You are 30 times more likely to die per mile driven on a motorcycle than in a car.

        https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/813732

        You’re playing Russian roulette with a theoretical hundred chamber revolver. Dude in a car puts in one bullet, spins, and pulls the trigger. Dude on a motorcycle puts in thirty before their turn. Most people watching would put a raincoat on before the motorcycle guy pulls.

        That is a fuckton more risk.

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          14 days ago

          I understand why, just find the wording very poor

          Still, thank you for the links to statistics