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I would love to hear some stats on how many car/bike collisions happen every day in SF.

• source99 3y ago
  Prior to the pandemic an average of 1.4 bike accidents per day - https://www.mjqlaw.com/san-francisco-2022-bicycle-accident-statistics-and-study/ https://www.mjqlaw.com/san-francisco-2022-bicycle-accident-s...
  • buzzergfxkjkl 3y ago
    I am unable to drill down on my phone right now but presumably we can figure this out for other years thanks to the visionzero plan/project. https://sfgov.org/scorecards/transportation/traffic-fatalities https://sfgov.org/scorecards/transportation/traffic-fataliti... Yes I know this site only shows fatalities but I'm assuming the data is there if somebody is able to figure out the API/powerbi stuff?
• jeffbee 3y ago
  I don't know either but I do know that this collision has already got infinity times more press coverage and police attention than that time a wrong-way driver hit me on Howard and fled the scene. It's a problem with the whole AV discourse.
  • scarmig 3y ago
    I can name two times in the last five years where, biking, I had a worse encounter than described (though I reserve judgment of fault until more details come out). Including one that required hospitalization, where the human driver decided to drive away. The frustrating bit about AV discourse is that AVs are held against the standard of a perfect driver. Which I don't actually object to--all drivers should be compared to perfection. But it's enraging when people do so for AVs without comparing against human drivers, which, as everyone should know, fall far short of perfection. And with AVs we have the capability to iteratively improve them toward perfection, while there's no way to do the same with humans.