Motorcycling is orders of magnitude more deadly on a person-mile basis. It varies a lot by motorcycle type, experience level, helmet. DUI also statistically has a heavier correlation with fatality in motorcycling (I’m not 100% but my understanding is that motorcycles are significantly harder to operate in such a way that dui effects are multiplied).
I’m not sure if this is actually relevant to your discussion, I just like to discuss the reality of motorcycling (as a person who rides).
Surely motorcycling, free climbing, BASE jumping, hang gliding, and skiing are deadlier?
People’s intuition on risk is wildly off here.
Skydiving sounds insane, but in the U.S. it’s ~9–10 deaths a year out of millions of jumps (roughly 1 in a few hundred thousand per jump).
Driving feels normal, but it kills ~40,000+ people every single year.
So yeah—both involve “transportation,” but the one everyone does casually every day is orders of magnitude deadlier than the one that sounds extreme.
Hmm. Motorcycling might be higher or counted together with driving a car. I forget the stats.
The others generally aren’t used as methods of transportation, but instead are generally recreational activities.
Motorcycling is orders of magnitude more deadly on a person-mile basis. It varies a lot by motorcycle type, experience level, helmet. DUI also statistically has a heavier correlation with fatality in motorcycling (I’m not 100% but my understanding is that motorcycles are significantly harder to operate in such a way that dui effects are multiplied).
I’m not sure if this is actually relevant to your discussion, I just like to discuss the reality of motorcycling (as a person who rides).