> Maybe the NYC traffic is bad enough that you're never going a dangerous speed?
Inside Manhattan this is almost certainly true. In a modern car you're going to walk away from almost all crashes under about 40 mph.
Inside Manhattan this is almost certainly true. In a modern car you're going to walk away from almost all crashes under about 40 mph.
Maybe that is a 1/1000000 shot, but it is MUCH more horrifying than thinking about getting in a car crash at 40 mph.
Meanwhile I personally know multiple people who died, mangled in a car after an accident. I know multiple people who have survived but were in bad accidents where at least one person was injured. I know multiple people who were pedestrians and cyclists who were properly using the streets and were hit by cars requiring hospital visits, and indirectly know of several people who have died being legally in the right cycling on the streets.
You're way more likely to be seriously harmed or killed even just being around a car than you are riding a train or subway.