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

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xkcd #2940: Modes of Transportation

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My bold criticism might anger the hot air balloon people, which would be a real concern if any of them lived along a very narrow line directly upwind of me.

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A chart that categorizes various modes of transportation based on their practicality and danger level:

Zone of Practicality:

Trains
Airliners
Boats
Walking
Cars
Scooters
Bicycles

Zone of Specialty and Recreational Vehicles:

Motorcycles
Helicopters
Light aircraft
Go karts
Skateboards
Rollerblades
Skis
Unicycles
Sleds
Bumper cars

?????:

Hot air balloons

“Hot air balloons are the optimal mode of transportation, if your optimization algorithm has a sign error.”

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[-] Zidane@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It took me too fucking long to figure out what an "airuner" was...

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[-] Mighty@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

why are scooters practical and motorcycles not? I only ride a motorcycle. any distance too long for bycicle or inconvenient with public transit, I take my motorcycle.

[-] Baguette@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The graph does say its practical, its just also more dangerous than a scooter

Edit: oh you meant in the zone of practicality, not the y axis convenient for travel. The zoning i feel is pretty subjective

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[-] snaggen@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

The fact that airplane travel is safer than cars is a myth invented to promote airplane travel. Well, it is not fully a myth, but to get to that result they measure per mile, and that greatly favor airplane travel. If you instead measure how likely you are to die on your next trip, then the dangers of airplane travel will significantly exceed car travel and other means of transportation.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

What’s the benefit of measuring per trip versus per passenger mile?

[-] snaggen@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Per trip is more in line with how people think about danger. Like, am I going to die on this trip?

[-] Electricblush@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I would think real statistics would be more interesting then peoples emotions when talking about what is actually dangerous.

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[-] ouch@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Motorcycles should be replaced with EUCs.

[-] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

With helicopters it's more that they're expensive than unsave.

[-] misterundercoat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Where would horses go?

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