alt Hacker NewsYou seem to be arguing from the idea that roads are filled with "killing machines" while mountains are "peaceful".
But that's arguing from emotion. The only thing that actually matters is statistics.
And statistically, it seems like people get injured far more often when climbing on mountains than when on the road to climbing.
It doesn't matter if you might die on roads because you "get distracted for a moment", because that's actually a very rare occurrence. It doesn't matter that when you get injured on a mountain, you "opted into that risk", because you opt into driving too.
The point is just where are you more likely to get injured. And roads seem to be the safer place if you're talking about hours spent.
Now it's about statistics but your comment was a personal, unconvincing anecdote by your own admission.
> You seem to be arguing from the idea that roads are filled with "killing machines" while mountains are "peaceful".
If you're a pedestrian or cyclist or passenger, you're relying on everyone elses ability to drive safely and not veer into you. If all it takes is a split second decision to do something different and simply turn into you, that's a killing machine as much as it is a transportation device. You can't do that on a bus or train without a gun, and it would be far from easy to do that on the mountains.