xkcd #2940: Modes of Transportation ( sh.itjust.works )

Turun , 1 month ago

This is wildly dependent on infrastructure. Both for the convenience and danger axis.

cucumber_sandwich , 29 days ago

But hardly for hot air balloons

Turun , 29 days ago

Yeah, the joke and alt text are delivered quite nicely.

Swedneck , 29 days ago

motorcycles should 100% be in the zone of practicality, especially with modern sleek electric ones.

skateboards should be the bridge between practical and recreational, provided you have sensible infrastructure and short distances they have distinct benefits.

skis and sleds just need snow to make sense

Shialac , 29 days ago

I think the existence of car drivers increases their danger level massively

brbposting OP , 29 days ago

Apparently alcohol as well as it is involved in something like 50% of motorcycle fatalities.

Swedneck , 29 days ago

it annoys me to no end how motorcycles and mopeds are viewed as dangerous, when every single time you hear about people being hurt on them it's because they're fucking idiots who tried to do a backflip infront of a semitruck

Jentu , 28 days ago

Horses are technically more dangerous to ride than motorcycles. It’s just that motorcycles attract a kind of people who like doing backflips in front of a semi truck.

Swedneck , 29 days ago

sure but that applies to everything, if you want to be safe then the only time you should ever be on a road is inside a bus.

Dagwood222 , 29 days ago

You can be a skilled rider and still and a fall. More likely is that an unsafe car driver will do something that causes an accident.

thebestaquaman , 28 days ago

I'm here to say that if there's snow, skis win on practicality. Almost every winter, there's at least one day when you will have some people skiing to work in Oslo, a city of 700 000 inhabitants, with a metro system. Because when there's 10 cm of snow in the streets, skis are the quickest and easiest way to get anywhere.