Love this website, the layout is great and the explanations are simple and straight-forward.

  • MTK@lemmy.world
    3·
    11 months ago

    The helmet part is such a misrepresentation of the data. The reason there’s not any significant injury reduction is because there is an opposite effect of people driving less safely when they are wearing a helmet out of a false sense of security, therefore causing more injury. The real solution here is to educate people about the importance of helmets and about the importance of other safety measures such as safe cycling practices.

    • Swordgeek@lemmy.ca
      1·
      11 months ago

      I believe that this could be the case, but do you have any evidence or studies to back it up?

    • Victor Villas@lemmy.ca
      21·
      11 months ago

      The real solution here is to educate people about the importance of helmets and about the importance of other safety measures such as safe cycling practices.

      So the real solution to cyclists getting run over is teaching cyclists about safety?

      I’m not against teaching the importance of helmet and cycling safely - I think those are relevant ingredients - but this is FAR far away from a real solution.

      • MTK@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 months ago

        Okay, yeah, I was thinking only from the cyclists’ perspective. Definitely the most important part is to teach drivers to drive safely with cyclists.