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> Riding a motorcycle amongst CA drivers is taking on a significant injury risk.

More than in anywhere else? Citation needed.

I ran the numbers for myself. Statistically, the amount of time I save per day by riding a motorcycle in San Francisco heavily outpaces the number of average life-minutes lost due to the risks of riding a motorcycle.



> Statistically, the amount of time I save per day by riding a motorcycle in San Francisco heavily outpaces the number of average life-minutes lost due to the risks of riding a motorcycle.

Those are the minutes spent stuck in traffic vs the minutes spent being dead. Some people might want to use a weighted model here.


Minutes spent stuck in traffic, to me, are almost worse than being dead.


I ride a motorcycle, but you and I "balance our books" very differently.




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