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The article says they do the survey on a particular day each year whereas the data set is less specific on that fact. Surely they do the survey over multiple days...? If available, there must be a ton of citibike usage data one could use to verify the citibike stats collected by this survey and generally validate this data a bit.
Why they not rather contact with Fitbit, Garmin, Under Armour, etc. to provide data?
> Let me just start by saying that there is no good reason not to wear a helmet when riding a bike in NYC. One common argument is that drivers have more respect for cyclists without helmets, i.e. they're more afraid of hitting a cyclist without a helmet. The discussion goes back a long time, this article for instance is 9.5 years old: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-... I guess, most cycli…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why they not rather contact with Fitbit, Garmin, Under Armour, etc. to provide data?
Perhaps because it would be biased? Cyclist population who wears fitness trackers might look different than the population of all cyclists. So now you have sampling bias to deal with.
> Let me just start by saying that there is no good reason not to wear a helmet when riding a bike in NYC. One common argument is that drivers have more respect for cyclists without helmets, i.e. they're more afraid of hitting a cyclist without a helmet. The discussion goes back a long time, this article for instance is 9.5 years old: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-... I guess, most cycli…
> Let me just start by saying that there is no good reason not to wear a helmet when riding a bike in NYC. One common argument is that drivers have more respect for cyclists without helmets, i.e. they're more afraid of hitting a cyclist without a helmet. The discussion goes back a long time, this article for instance is 9.5 years old: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-... I guess, most cycli…
There is also no good reason not to wear a helmet when driving a car. Head trauma kills regardless.
Seat headrests and side impact air bags provide this function much more effectively than loose helmets. Which are not safe for use in passenger cars due to neck trauma. Further, your skull hitting the pavement is more rapid acceleration than a survivable car crash.
That said, NASCAR drivers do use helmets and a five point harness instead of air bags. But, very importantly they strap the helmet to the head rest, but that only works because of the five point harness and several other safety systems missing from consumer cars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HANS_device
TLDR: The issue is neck trauma. Which NASCAR avoids, by strapping both the driver and their helmet down.
A prevalence of biking on the sidewalk in an area is a signal to designers that cyclists feel it is too dangerous to bike on the road amongst traffic. It means that a protected bike lane needs to be built.
Cyclists die in traffic because they are hit by multi-ton motorized vehicles, not any of the things enumerated here.
> Don’t bike on the sidewalk. Seriously. A prevalence of biking on the sidewalk in an area is a signal to designers that cyclists feel it is too dangerous to bike on the road amongst traffic. It means that a protected bike lane needs to be built.
(Tourists tend to have bikes with bike-rental logos, or Citibikes; locals tend to have their own bikes, or if on citibikes, are dressed more like locals.)
> Let me just start by saying that there is no good reason not to wear a helmet when riding a bike in NYC. One common argument is that drivers have more respect for cyclists without helmets, i.e. they're more afraid of hitting a cyclist without a helmet. The discussion goes back a long time, this article for instance is 9.5 years old: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-... I guess, most cycli…
Yet this study is cited in every discussion of bike helmet use.
I've been interested in this topic for some time, as a year round bike commuter with my entire family on bikes. It's become a prickly topic because of the intensity of advocacy from both sides of the debate.