Bicycle Safety vs. Car Safety

From Austin Bicycle Helmet Law

[edit] Cycling SAFER than driving

The commonly used per mile metric is inherently biased against cycling since auto trips tend to be longer. Per hour is the most fair comparison.

A risk analysis company (Failure Analysis, Inc., now known as Exponent Corp.) did a study some years ago and found cycling to have about half the fatality risk of being a driver or passenger in an automobile; 0.26 deaths per million hours compared to 0.47 for autos