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From [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=...
IIRC 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).
Here is a study investigating this methodology of studying car behavior and ultimately concluding it is useful: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00014...
How dare those guys drive on roads with cars! This seems insane. Even if the data supported this, anyone from the PR department should have seen how much bad press this generates from a mile away.
Helmets are trying to reduce an already tiny risk. We live in a world of safety fanaticism.
At my scale, I know that when I go mountain biking, when I have an helmet, I go faster and take much more risk than when I don't have an helmet. I don't have any data point about road biking, because I never wear a helmet. But thinking about it, I would also take more risks with more protective equipments
But what is your overall safety. Like can you still get seriously injured being careful not wearing a helmet
IIRC 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.
To be clear, I am not saying that it is safer to ride without a helmet, just an interesting study of behavior.
I get that you know people who are harmed by cars (as do I), but your appeal to pathos & anecdote should not have a bearing here.
Is there a way to fight risk compensation?