Public service news agency falsely stating that most accidents with pedelecs are fatal. Statistics they cite say it's 0.8% (www.zdf.de)

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So... That was quite a surprise, here's the link to the statistics: Link

188 fatalities out of nearly 24k accidents don't qualify as 'most cases end deadly'. I don't want to speculate as to how someone can misread a statistic that significantly while writing an article for a public service news site. But the damage of such false narratives is considerable.

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[-] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

Yes and the auto industry.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby 3 points 7 months ago

The decades of brainwashing from those two industry allow the idea to run perpetually without much help needed.

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