Maybe depends on where you are living, but you quite probably have the wrong impression.
In my country (Germany), less than 3000 people die each year in traffic overall, while already an estimated 4000 pedestrians die while simply using stairs.
So, “Stairway to Heaven” gains a whole different layer of meaning, as it seems… :-)
I would expect that pedestrian walk far less distance than cars drive, so even a twofold difference in absolute numbers will disappear when normalised by distance. For instance there is a general advice of walking 10k paces every day which is about 7km, average car speed in the city should be around 30km/h, so even if we assume 30 minutes of commute every day (and this is too generous, I believe) it will be more than two times the distance people (should) walk
Parachuting/skydiving is incredibly low risk compared to the average person’s perception. The us had 9 deaths last year in 3.8 million skydives.
Wing suit usage has a similar number, IF you don’t include base jumpers, which you shouldn’t, because it’s fundamentally a very, very different sport that happens to use (almost) the same equipment. You wouldn’t include each bump in a nascar race as an accident and lump it into driving statistics, I would hope, nor do the same for people hiking in the woods and people fist fighting bears in the woods.
Considering I travel a mile or two, give or take, on each canopy flight when I jump, that’s 9 deaths in ~8 million miles. Wing suits have a much better glide ratio when flying, so that would change things up as well. I’m curious how that would hold up to walking. Using the other feller’s number of 4000 pedestrian deaths (on stairs) in germany, and estimating they walk 3 miles a day in a country of ~83 million, that’s 249 million miles, giving us 1.6x10^-5, while skydiving is 2.4x10^-6.
But really… who would consider those activities as a mode of transport anyway?
My thought exactly, walking per distance is probably the most deadly mode of transport
[X] Doubt
Walking is what we evolved to do. While being a pedestrian in certain parts of cities is dangerous, tons of walking is done away from vehicles.
Maybe depends on where you are living, but you quite probably have the wrong impression.
In my country (Germany), less than 3000 people die each year in traffic overall, while already an estimated 4000 pedestrians die while simply using stairs.
So, “Stairway to Heaven” gains a whole different layer of meaning, as it seems… :-)
Goddamnit.
Yet again, I have to say:
“And people think Germans have no sense of humor.”
… You got a chuckle out of me with that one, goddamnit, hahah!
I would expect that pedestrian walk far less distance than cars drive, so even a twofold difference in absolute numbers will disappear when normalised by distance. For instance there is a general advice of walking 10k paces every day which is about 7km, average car speed in the city should be around 30km/h, so even if we assume 30 minutes of commute every day (and this is too generous, I believe) it will be more than two times the distance people (should) walk
I don’t think people commonly refer to people using the stairs as being pedestrians.
There are stairs outdoors though, where they are more likely called pedestrians. Those stairs are also affected by the wearher, such as rain or snow
Thread started from ‘walking’, not from being a pedestrian, and stairs usually require exactly walking
Nah, you’re just not creative enough
I’m guilty of that, I admit, there are so many more ways to
get wasteduse stairsCool story bro.
My guess would be parachuting/skydiving/wing-gliding.
Parachuting/skydiving is incredibly low risk compared to the average person’s perception. The us had 9 deaths last year in 3.8 million skydives.
Wing suit usage has a similar number, IF you don’t include base jumpers, which you shouldn’t, because it’s fundamentally a very, very different sport that happens to use (almost) the same equipment. You wouldn’t include each bump in a nascar race as an accident and lump it into driving statistics, I would hope, nor do the same for people hiking in the woods and people fist fighting bears in the woods.
Considering I travel a mile or two, give or take, on each canopy flight when I jump, that’s 9 deaths in ~8 million miles. Wing suits have a much better glide ratio when flying, so that would change things up as well. I’m curious how that would hold up to walking. Using the other feller’s number of 4000 pedestrian deaths (on stairs) in germany, and estimating they walk 3 miles a day in a country of ~83 million, that’s 249 million miles, giving us 1.6x10^-5, while skydiving is 2.4x10^-6.
But really… who would consider those activities as a mode of transport anyway?
Huh, well I am apparently wrong then.
Thanks for the correction!
As to who would consider them a mode of transportation… … James Bond? Ethan Hunt?
lol, it was meant as a joke.
I’m on lemmy…
what’s a joke?
Uh, the US commuter train system?
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