> In my household, besides > driving to work > (15miles and 6miles), there are mostly short trips: [...] gym 1/4 mile,
Mark! -- Cheers, Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Gonz > Sent: 02 November 2006 16:30 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Adults on bicycles > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 09:12:22PM -0000, Bob W wrote: > > > >>Your wise neurosurgeon might care to reflect on this: > >>(http://www.cyclecraft.co.uk/digest/effectiveness.pdf) > >> > >>"... the average distance cycled per person in the UK each year is > >>only 62 km42 (and in the Netherlands only 850 km43), so the average > >>cyclist would expect a serious injury only once in more > than 80 lifetimes. > > > > > > That would only be true if the likelihood of accident was directly > > proportional to distance travelled, which is a questionable > assumption. > > > > Compare this, for example, to the equally often-quoted figure that > > 50% of all automobile accidents occur within 1.5 miles of the home. > > If this is true, and if the probability of an accident is directly > > proportional to the length of the journey, then we are forced to the > > conclusion that the average journey in an automobile is three miles. > > This is plainly ridiculous, so one of the underlying assumptions > > must be wrong. > > > > > Hmm, it might just be right. In my household, besides > driving to work > (15miles and 6miles), there are mostly short trips: grocery > shopping 1 > mile, post office 1/2 mile, gym 1/4 mile, gas fillup varies > but about 1 > mile avg, other shopping 3 miles, movies etc 5 miles, eating > out usually > within 5 miles, dropping the kids off to school 1 mile. I guess it > depends on how close everything is to you. The more rural > you are, the > further you have to go for everything. For people in a dense urban > environment (and more likely to have accidents) the average driving > distance must be really short. > > rg > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
