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[-] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

But what's the injury rate for scooter km's travelled?

We use that to obfuscate car injuries, why do scooters get a different treatment.

[-] Canconda@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We use [injury rate / kms traveled] to obfuscate car injuries

  1. Automotive lobbyists. That's why killing someone drunk driving a car is manslaughter not murder. Scooter lobbying is probably pennies to the dollar of automotive lobbying.

  2. Scooters don't have odometers making data collection difficult. Similar vein, scooter accidents and injuries are less likely to be reported or linked back to scooters than to cars.

  3. Given cars go significantly farther than scooters that likely makes the output number not very useful and possibly harmful from a marketing standpoint. 1/10,0000kms for cars vs 1/100kms for scooters is not appealing.

  4. Scooters are still new. There probably isn't enough data yet. Right now a lot of scooter roll outs are in their pilot phase or recently completed it.

  5. Scooter injuries have significantly more/different factors. I friend of mine needed elbow surgery because he lost balance due to a combination of wind, being tall, catching on a tree branch, losing control, side walk disrepair, and bad luck hitting his elbow on a concrete barrier. And he was sober.

I think the statistics are still cooking.

[-] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

My scooter has an odometer. I've travelled 1593 km over a year and a bit. I've had about 4 near-misses which resulted in little or no injury and 1 serious accident that resulted in a bad but not severe injury (hematoma and long-lasting muscle strain, I didn't go to the doctor but I suspect it might've been a low grade tear). The bad accident was me crashing into a fence, because I got distracted by dogs.

I think I'm a bit more clumsy than the average rider, but y'all can have my data to start the research.

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