Cycling—It’s Safer Than Living!
| Activity | Fatalities* |
| Skydiving | 128.7 |
| On-road motorcycling | 8.8 |
| Scuba diving | 2.0 |
| Living (all causes of death) | 1.5 |
| Snowmobiling | 0.9 |
| Passenger cars | 0.5 |
| Water skiing | 0.3 |
| Bicycling | 0.3 |
| Flying (scheduled domestic airlines) | 0.2 |
| Passenger car post-collision fire | 0.0 |
*Per million hours of activity.
From Charles R. Murray, "The Real Story: Overdesign Prevents Cars from Exploding," Design News, October 4, 1993.
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JoeNovember 15, 2007 at 10:36 am
Perfect! My dad was just giving me a hard time about the safety of biking in Boston at night, but he’s a sucker for this kind of argument.
For a whole bunch more info on where this comes from & what it might mean, see http://gristmill.grist.org/print/2007/10/8/143547/109
(of course, we’ve been arguing about this stuff for 15+ years, so this will not be the last word)