Car helmets do exists (ZT)



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送交者: HunHunSheng 于 2005-5-31, 17:29:38:

The Indefensible Position: Car Helmets Are Cool

Esquire, June, 2004 by Doug Lansky

I wear a car helmet. You read right. A plastic-coated Styrofoam job with a little buckle beneath the chin. It's the same one I originally bought for mountain biking. Put it on in a car and—presto—you've got a car helmet. And you're a fucking idiot. But before you jump to that conclusion, consider this: Wearing a bicycle helmet in a car is far more effective than wearing one on a bike.

What I'm saying is my decision is statistically based. Over an average life span with a typical 80 minutes of driving or 40 minutes of cycling per day, driving a car is four times as likely to take your life. If your average biking time is more like five minutes a day, that makes driving a car 32 times more life threatening. If around 900 annual bicycle deaths can convince us to wear ...





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