Ok, so as it stands right this moment, I'm stuck driving a car with an 21mpg combined EPA rating. And as luck would have it, my parents have decided to guilt trip me into not getting a scooter because, "We love you and we don't want to see you get killed on a scooter because someone wasn't watching where they were going."
I was just wondering if anyone knows where I can find statistics on scooter deaths/injuries vs. automobile deaths/injuries. I sort of want to just make sure I'm not going crazy, because, I have this theory that scooters might actually be safer then motorcycles because of a few factors like the speeds they can obtain and things motorcyclists tend to do that scooter drivers don't, etc. etc.
I'm also trying to understand there logic with this one... So, I told them I refuse to pay $4/gallon in a car with a 16 gallon tank (yea, $66 to fill up doesn't sound like something I want to put myself through) and told them that it's either they give me "permission"/blessing/whatever to get a scooter or I'm just going to start riding my bicycle...which I ride on the road...and somehow they are convinced that I'll be safer on the bicycle...I would think a scooter that goes the speedlimit would be much safer actually...am I right?
Anyway....
...for now