10.31.07
Bicycling: the safe way to commute
Quite a few surprises in this article. For example:
Activity Fatalities per million hours activity 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 From Charles R. Murray, “The Real Story: Overdesign Prevents Cars from Exploding,” Design News, October 4, 1993.
More at the link.
