FartsWithAnAccentM to micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is [email protected] • 5 days agoIf you think electric bikes are bad, there’s a much bigger menace hitting our roadselectrek.coexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up153
arrow-up153external-linkIf you think electric bikes are bad, there’s a much bigger menace hitting our roadselectrek.coFartsWithAnAccentM to micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is [email protected] • 5 days agomessage-square15fedilink
Electric bikes are a menace. They go almost as fast as a car (if the car is parking), they’re whisper…
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•edit-25 days agoYou have to do deaths per vehicle on the road. Raw data is useless for making any sort of comparison.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-23 days agoProbably deaths per distance traveled rather than vehicle count.
minus-squareAnnoyed_🦀 linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 days agoDeath per distance traveled shouldn’t be use on thing that usually travel short distance though, because pedestrian death is the highest if measured this way, making the impression that walking is dangerous.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•3 days agoYeah, I think both metrics are valuable. Also the ratio of incidents where pedestrians did/didn’t die might be useful.
You have to do deaths per vehicle on the road. Raw data is useless for making any sort of comparison.
Probably deaths per distance traveled rather than vehicle count.
Death per distance traveled shouldn’t be use on thing that usually travel short distance though, because pedestrian death is the highest if measured this way, making the impression that walking is dangerous.
Yeah, I think both metrics are valuable. Also the ratio of incidents where pedestrians did/didn’t die might be useful.