By: Jim H
The head coach of the LA rams is a bicycle commuter. This article says LA has more paved bike lanes than any other city in the country....
View ArticleBy: FMaz
First, I fully agree with the generality of the article, but part of the math is wrong: “In other words, driving causes an expected 0.42% reduction in my lifespan. 0.42% of 60 years is about 4 months.”...
View ArticleBy: Michael
In calculating the risk analysis of an activity. Morbidity must be considered. When car companies started using seatbelts, more people survived accidents but there also were more paraplegics and other...
View ArticleBy: anonymousengineer555
This post could probably go anywhere there is the argument about SUVs and safety during collisions, so ill just share it here. Basically IIHS crash testing SUV/Trucks into cars, and recent design...
View ArticleBy: Douglas Miller
I have been a serious cyclist for about 30 years including 10 years of racing and coaching. I have seen some of my commuter friends who also were Racers get hit and hurt badly. Maybe that is just bad...
View ArticleBy: Marijana Babic
Free range kids moved to Let Grow https://letgrow.org I’d say it’s a great place for parents who want to keep some sanity in modern fear-driven parenthood standards.
View ArticleBy: Gillian
Bikemaps.org does a nice job of displaying bike collision data. It also indicates popular bike routes by compiling strava data.
View ArticleBy: Emily Gowen
Love this comment- so true! As a bike commuter it blows my mind that safety concerns should outweigh the benefits of joy, health, and fun- not to mention getting to move even when traffic is slowed to...
View ArticleBy: Brooks
So I know this isn’t the main point of the article (which I think is great by the way), but I wanted to comment on the driving risk calculation because it’s off by a few orders of magnitude. An...
View ArticleBy: Mr. Money Mustache
Hi Brooks – I think you might have confused the graphical chart in this article (which is based on per 100,000 VEHICLES), with the fatality rate per mile (1 in 100 million MILES), which I cited in the...
View ArticleBy: Renee
http://www.bath.ac.uk/news/articles/releases/overtaking110906.html This is the article that claims that a helmet is insignificant towards increasing bicycle riders’ safety. Their experiment tested how...
View ArticleBy: John G.
Just a comment I could not help but respond. I was hit by a car while riding a bike and was in a coma. 21 days in the hospital and lucky to be alive. Folks if you are out there, wear a helmet, a good...
View ArticleBy: Mike
MMM, you should do a rehash of this article in light of the hysteria surrounding COVID19. That’d be great!
View ArticleBy: Stephen A. Schullo
Hi MMM, I brought this topic up again because of another safety topic that is a very expensive illusion, which I am sure you and all of your followers know intimately. Annuity products. These products...
View ArticleBy: Angie
Love the article and I am in full agreement that ‘not taking the risk to make the most out of life’ is one of the biggest risks of all. But just to play Devil’s advocate on the +1.5 month life...
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