Originally Posted by
Paul Barnard
I wouldn't say it's mostly irrelevant. NYC had a massive spike in cycling deaths last year. I suspect if you drilled down into those deaths you's see that application of Hurst's style would have prevented the majority of them.
I don't even know how you'd test such a proposition. Sorry, but that's a ridiculous assertion. Basically, "if x was riding like y, then this wouldn't have happened" is not testable because you'd have to prove a counterfactual event. Data just doesn't work that way.