> If my bike ride is just 5 minutes why bother wearing a helmet?
It reads much easier like this.
It reads much easier like this.
I’m assuming you’ve never met anyone that died due to a bike. So insensitive.
It's a bad idea to climb a mountain or go sky diving every day, but doing it once doesn't make you a reckless person.
Stop being facetious just to prove your point, please.
Climbing a mountain with good equipment and a buddy is still dangerous.
Being "properly prepared" is only relevant inside a context. You can't look at just preparation when deciding if something is too dangerous. The actual risk numbers are the important thing here.
If I'm driving 100 miles, and I do something sloppy that doubles my risk of dying in a car crash, the actual danger I face is less than the danger of skydiving just once with perfect prep. If it's also a special occasion where I'm going to get a huge amount of enjoyment out of it... the risk seems okay.
Even if we're focused just on car safety, we should be far more upset when someone buys a car without top-tier safety ratings than about some one-off trip like this.
Being able to point at some specific danger, like a battery on the floor, is just bikeshedding. What matters is the risk per day/month/year, and most of that risk is invisible.
2. Do you really think that's an appropriate comment?
But there's a cultural opposition to helmets in many countries, chief among reasons being that "helmets don't look good" and "real cyclists don't need one". If you didn't wear one your whole life, you won't start at 65.
In my 30 years of life, I’ve never read an article, seen a TV show, watched a movie, read a book, heard a conversation, etc where the idea about wearing helmets in cars was even discussed.
I’ve never even heard a comedian joke about it.
Who is opposing this? Are you saying there’s opposition just because it’s a thing that doesn’t exist?
https://colvilleandersen.medium.com/the-case-for-motorist-he...
So that does open the question about whether suppression of this lifesaving technology has been something intentional on the part of automotive companies and enthusiasts (see: "jaywalking") or if it's the other way, that making road safety issues about only cycling helmets is an attempt to de-legitimize that mode and blame victims.