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With that level of violence it is the same scenario and the same outcome for a car.

If we insist that cyclists protect themselves against multiple tonnes of kinetic energy impact, we should insist on the same protection for car drivers.

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We already do. Crash safety standards, seatbelts, and mandatory air bags dramatically decrease injury and death in crashes, and numerous other safety mandates reduce the chance of a crash in the first place.

Thanks for the reply. I hadn’t thought of airbags-as-helmet-substitutes in that way.

Are helmets the bicycle equivalent of air bags then? Isn’t that quite a third rate equivalent?

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