“there are still only an average of two pedestrians per year killed by an e-bike accident. That number for cars? Around 100 per year in NYC. It’s not complicated math – cars are 50x more lethal in the city.Around 100 per year in NYC.”
Since the articles author chose to be so pedantic about it: There are about 65,000 e-bikes in NYC, and about 2,000,000 cars. The math is simple. There’s way more car deaths because there’s way more cars. If you adjust the numbers make cars and ebikes equal and assume the too small value of 2 ebikes deaths to be a statistical average, it would amount to 2 ebike deaths for every 3.3 car deaths.
So yes, ebikes are definitely less deadly, but hardly less deadly than the screwball claim of 50x less.
If a guy riding a unicycle backwards down a NYC street with a fanny pack full of nitroglycerin fell down and blew up, I guess I can tell everyone it’s only half as deadly to ride a unicycle backwards while carrying nitro, since there was only a single fatality while doing it.
“there are still only an average of two pedestrians per year killed by an e-bike accident. That number for cars? Around 100 per year in NYC. It’s not complicated math – cars are 50x more lethal in the city.Around 100 per year in NYC.”
Since the articles author chose to be so pedantic about it: There are about 65,000 e-bikes in NYC, and about 2,000,000 cars. The math is simple. There’s way more car deaths because there’s way more cars. If you adjust the numbers make cars and ebikes equal and assume the too small value of 2 ebikes deaths to be a statistical average, it would amount to 2 ebike deaths for every 3.3 car deaths.
So yes, ebikes are definitely less deadly, but hardly less deadly than the screwball claim of 50x less.
If a guy riding a unicycle backwards down a NYC street with a fanny pack full of nitroglycerin fell down and blew up, I guess I can tell everyone it’s only half as deadly to ride a unicycle backwards while carrying nitro, since there was only a single fatality while doing it.