[ExI] What do you get out of this "Odds of dying" page?

[spike]

> bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of BillK
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> The figure that leaps out at me says that everyone should drive
> three-wheeled vehicles.
> 
> Only 13 people died in 2004 compared with about 20,000 for other road
> vehicles.
> Sounds like great odds to me!
> 
> Then the thought occurred to me that maybe there were only 13
> three-wheeled vehicles and they *all* died.
> 
> I think these stats need a bit of reworking.
> 
> 
> BillK


BillK, the most common three wheelers as used today are dangerous sons a
bitches.  We have a couple of them in my biker club.  One is a sidecar rig
and one is a trike.  These are dangerous because they don't lean.  There are
some three wheelers on the market which are straddled and do lean into
turns, so that is some safety improvement, but I wouldn't encourage anyone
to ride one of the old kind.  You get cooking into a turn too fast, you have
a choice of either toppling or running into the other lane.  Oy.

spike