How many bikes on the road each day (boring statistics)

[The Shaggy D.A.]

Life's too short to worry about numbers.

I beat 3-1 odds of being deaded/some level of quadraspazzed/potato
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[M.C]

[thx1138]

[kramdra]

TLDR...

It is the hesitant, slow, and less agile and less observant motorcyclists that die. I may ride like an utter cunt some days but it is also what keeps me safe - primarily lane splitting VS sitting in a car tailgate sandwich, one of the more dangerous situations to be in. Example - https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=JC5J_1541472144
Especially in the rain where cars panic, drive slower, less predictable, and tail gate much closer.

Bad weather, ride faster. Get out of bad situations as quickly as possible in a controlled and safe way. It will not appear safe to an oblivious car when you go between them at a decent speed in the wet.

[Phil_B]

[talkToTheHat]

GP Friend "I'm a safe* driver, I've never had a crash. But it can't be safe zooming past cars, coming out of nowhere at those speeds you do..."

Me: "I would consider it effective risk management to get out of the way of a driver that isn't looking in their mirrors as as soon as possible and making sufficient noise as to advertise one's presence is probably a bonus."

GP "But how do you know if someone's seen you?"

me "Well you can't, but you can see when someone's either not looking or is looking at the wrong thing. Mirrors works both ways"

GP "You can't seriously be telling me you look to see where a driver's looking before you pass them"

Me "And to asses whether they're likely to pull out of a junction on me, or brake suddenly, having finally looked back at the road."

GP stunned silence

my thankfully internal monologue: have you just worked out the bikes you didn't see filtering past were making extra noise in the hope that you'd wake the fuck up before you solved the transplant organ shortage?

The only way i can explain the level of concern trolling that goes on is there is some kind of subconcious causal link between being a mildly oblivious driver and the risk of killing the one motorcyclist you know so the obvious thing to do is discourage them from riding.

I wonder if there's numbers on the risk of killing someone else during an activity, in some kind of hours per micromort kind of format.[/i]
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[Johanna]

[talkToTheHat]

So riding a bike if risk is proportional to miles it puts me at a 0.1% chance of death over 10,000 miles in a year?

Interestingly that's a micromort per every 10 miles. Interestingly that's an increase from the one per 6 miles cited on wikipedia

Has that just doubled my risk of dying this year? Or is that accounted for in the statistics because of the risks exposed to everyone.

Also, for those who havn't seen it, ROSPA: https://www.rospa.com/rospaweb/docs/advice-services/road-safety/motorcyclists/common-motorcycle-crash-causes.pdf

and HURT https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/MOTORCYCLE_ACCIDENT_CAUSE_FACTORS_AND_IDENTIFICATION_OF_COUNTERMEASURES_VOLUME_I-_TECHNICAL_REPORT.pdf
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[Riejufixing]

[talkToTheHat]

2276 miles/year is probably representative of annual rider mileage, so we're looking at billion as 1000 million. The long scale (aka British) billion has fallen into disuse since Harld Wilson endorsed the international english usage of the short scale. Note that most of yerp and french and spanish influenced countries world wide are using the long scale.

This is an interesting contrast to the adoption of metric/SI
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[Johanna]

[M.C]

[talkToTheHat]