lad

I understand why, just find the wording very poor

Still, thank you for the links to statistics

Statistics is skewed even more for cars, I travel by car less than 20 times per year now, and each ride is usually under 15 minutes, this would be very different rides from intercity/-state rides someone could do every day or every week and chances of being in an accident would also be very different

You can multiply this by the average trip distance to get per trip.

This statistics is a bit sus because it’s unclear where it comes from, but average flight distance may be around 1000–3000, while average motorcycle travel distance will not be less than 15 miles (I would guess more than 50, really). So the difference between motorcycle and the plane might not be as big, but it will still be 15–150 times. Also I don’t think that per trip is really useful metric

This is really sad, I don’t want to drive a tin can of death just so I am more protected from others driving tin cans of death :(

At least I don’t drive e-bike and use bike lanes ¯\⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)\⁠_⁠/⁠¯

I would expect that pedestrian walk far less distance than cars drive, so even a twofold difference in absolute numbers will disappear when normalised by distance. For instance there is a general advice of walking 10k paces every day which is about 7km, average car speed in the city should be around 30km/h, so even if we assume 30 minutes of commute every day (and this is too generous, I believe) it will be more than two times the distance people (should) walk

I’m guilty of that, I admit, there are so many more ways to get wasted use stairs

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

Interesting how my german statistic shows way lower numbers than the original statistic.

Maybe the original was for some specific country with worse road conditions than Germany. Or it was from a different time, or wasn’t real at all, dunno

Thread started from ‘walking’, not from being a pedestrian, and stairs usually require exactly walking