Per trip makes motorcycle more comparable with plane. Per mile makes motorcycle more comparable with car. They’re just inherently different, so comparing them is awkward.
You can multiply this by the average trip distance to get per trip.
This statistics is a bit sus because it’s unclear where it comes from, but average flight distance may be around 1000–3000, while average motorcycle travel distance will not be less than 15 miles (I would guess more than 50, really). So the difference between motorcycle and the plane might not be as big, but it will still be 15–150 times. Also I don’t think that per trip is really useful metric
No I disagree. Per trip is really useful considering %chance of survival per accident in airplane vs cars, and also % of accidents per trip between planes & cars.
I just want to know, how likely am I going to die when I ride this thing to my destination today. I’ve ridden cars more than 50,000 times in my life and experienced about 30 accidents and I’m still alive, but it was barely 6 times where I took a plane but thankfully 0 accidents otherwise 99.99% I wouldn’t be here.
Almost 50% of my family and friends btw have never took a plane in their lives, while the other 50% hardly travel with airplanes once every 6 years JUST to give you a hint how statistics are relative, skewed and meaningless from one person to another.
Statistics is skewed even more for cars, I travel by car less than 20 times per year now, and each ride is usually under 15 minutes, this would be very different rides from intercity/-state rides someone could do every day or every week and chances of being in an accident would also be very different
Per trip makes motorcycle more comparable with plane. Per mile makes motorcycle more comparable with car. They’re just inherently different, so comparing them is awkward.
You can multiply this by the average trip distance to get per trip.
This statistics is a bit sus because it’s unclear where it comes from, but average flight distance may be around 1000–3000, while average motorcycle travel distance will not be less than 15 miles (I would guess more than 50, really). So the difference between motorcycle and the plane might not be as big, but it will still be 15–150 times. Also I don’t think that per trip is really useful metric
No I disagree. Per trip is really useful considering %chance of survival per accident in airplane vs cars, and also % of accidents per trip between planes & cars.
I just want to know, how likely am I going to die when I ride this thing to my destination today. I’ve ridden cars more than 50,000 times in my life and experienced about 30 accidents and I’m still alive, but it was barely 6 times where I took a plane but thankfully 0 accidents otherwise 99.99% I wouldn’t be here.
Almost 50% of my family and friends btw have never took a plane in their lives, while the other 50% hardly travel with airplanes once every 6 years JUST to give you a hint how statistics are relative, skewed and meaningless from one person to another.
Statistics is skewed even more for cars, I travel by car less than 20 times per year now, and each ride is usually under 15 minutes, this would be very different rides from intercity/-state rides someone could do every day or every week and chances of being in an accident would also be very different