I'm a pretty live-and-let-live person, but the ratio of individual benefit to negative externality of motorcycles with intentionally loud mufflers seems clearly in favor of tighter regulation
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Replying to @devonzuegel
Also considering motorcycles have a 35x vehicle fatality rate per mile traveled relative to cars, individual benefit is probably negative
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Replying to @calcsam @devonzuegel
OTOH, per the Hurt Report most fatal motorcycle accidents are due to cars at intersections turning left into the motorcycle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurt_Report … IME motorcycle culture is very interested in risk management & how to stay alive, vastly moreso than for drivers of four-wheelers.
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Replying to @starsandrobots @devonzuegel
On the one hand, I'm sympathetic to motorcycle culture. On the other hand with a 35x per-mile fatality rate over cars, banning motorcycles would probably be more effective than every car-focused safety intervention.
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Replying to @calcsam @devonzuegel
Why not just make motorcycles with roll cages? (Fun: you know why we don't have those? Because the American Motorcycle Association felt that moving to fairings would require aerodynamic engineering which would put "mom'n'pop" repair shops out of business. In the fifties.)
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This also still doesn't address that the greatest hazard to a motorcyclist is in fact, a driver of an automobile. Maybe we would all be safer if everyone rode only motorcycles.
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