Pedal Me bans staff riders from wearing helmets for safety reasons
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#2From [the tweet], "People that are taking risks that are sufficient that they feel they need to wear helmets are not welcome to work for us"
[the tweet]: https://twitter.com/pedalmeapp/status/1489594692857647113?s=...
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#3IIRC it is studied that cars behave more dangerously around bikers with helmets while they give a wide berth to unhelmeted bikers.
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#4Seems unreachable using Brave. Continually redirects.
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#5This assumes that the risk primarily originates from the riders, not from other traffic participants.
Is there any data to substantiate this?
Re: Pedal Me bans staff riders from wearing helmets for safety reasons
#6IIRC it is studied that cars behave more dangerously around bikers with helmets while they give a wide berth to unhelmeted bikers.
"it is studied" Source please? This sounds like absolute bullshit. I've known so many people who have been killed or permanently disfigured because they didn't wear a helmet while biking in a large city. Cars don't give a fuck about us.
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#7IIRC it is studied that cars behave more dangerously around bikers with helmets while they give a wide berth to unhelmeted bikers.
There was one study about that, which was... not very robust science. It relied on self-report of the biker (and if I remember correctly, it was just a single one, so not enough data).
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#8"riders wearing helmets take greater risks"
That's why I've glued 3-inch shards of broken glass to my steering wheel.
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#9Helmets are trying to reduce an already tiny risk.
We live in a world of safety fanaticism.
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#10Is this true?
Anecdotally I bought a very fast electric scooter last year, but initially I didn't have a helmet. It took about two weeks to finally receive a helmet that fit me, and I didn't take it at top speed until then. I definitely feel much more secure riding with the helmet on...and take more risks than I would without it.