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Interestingly, bare handed boxing often results in far less head trauma - and while it tends to result in more cuts it has far less of an effect on fighters long term health.
If some riders choose to not wear a helmet, that may be fine, but prohibiting helmets is irresponsible. Riders have a much higher cumulative risk of accidents that are not their fault than customers. It's a workplace safety issue.
I don't think barring Uber eats driver from wearing helmet would be safe. I don't know about this company, though I hope they don't absolutely ban helmet so much as not mandating them.
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> Do you wear a helmet when you drive inside your car? If not, why not? Because I have a seatbelt, an airbag, and a reinforced shock absorbing shell around me.
So you wear a helmet as a pedestrian then? You are so unprotected!
I'm not going multiples of walking speed on something standing upright only thanks to gyroscopic forces, so no.
Also even when running I have way better maneuverability than as a cyclist.
Generally limbs > wheels when it comes to getting out of trouble.
I wear a helmet when skiing though.
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I've never skied with a helmet. Ridiculous. The only thing you can do about the risk of hitting or being hit, is stay home.
In German speaking countries we went from 15% to 3% of the ski accidents with hospitalization being related to head injuries, this within the past 15/20 years. This correlates very well with the increase of helmet usage.
They can then tell customers that the helmets are there to improve visibility and therefore safety of their passengers.
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"You dont think its reasonable to offer passengers the option to wear a helmet?" No. Which means it's not automatically "the reasonable thing", just an opinion.
Just because one person disagrees doesn't mean it isn't reasonable. I've met people who (claim to) believe the earth is flat, but surely no one would consider that belief "reasonable". So I'm curious what the REASONING is behind your feeling that offering passengers the option to wear a helmet is unreasonable. Personally, I would AGREE that offering passengers on a pedicab the option of a pineapple would be unreasona…
I'd worry about lice.
This is very much like: > The name "Tullock's spike" refers to a thought experiment in which Tullock suggested that if governments were serious about reducing road casualties, they should mandate that a sharp spike be installed in the center of each car's steering wheel, to increase the probability that an accident would be fatal to the driver. Tullock's idea was that the normal process of risk compensation would the…
Now I'm sort of curious how they died, and whether their personal automobile had any modifications to the interior.
Maybe relevant: the Netherlands is probably the country with the highest use of bicycles for transport, yet no one, except for cyclists on racing bikes/MTBs or foreign tourists, ever wears a bike helmet. This is because they're only marginally effective at preventing injury, and the disadvantage of reduced cycling use if helmets are mandated results in far worse public health outcomes. See also https://dutchreview.co…
This completely misses the forest for the trees and misattributes causality. The Dutch don't wear helmets because the traffic culture and infrastructure are completely different, not because of some questionable statistic no one has heard of. In the Netherlands you feel safe as a cyclist. Drivers look out for you because they're also all cyclists at other times. Cycling is so prevalent that it's hard to explain to an…