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Hey I think you have never taken a statistics or logical reasoning course.
Yes in total number cars and light trucks kill the most pedestrians. That's not what is being discussed.
Per mile driven, motorcycles are more than 4x more likely to kill a pedestrian. If motorcycles were used the same amount as cars and light trucks, the total number of deaths per year from them would be almost 20,000 people
Motorcyclist are statistically more dangerous drivers to pedestrians.
“If motorcycles were used the same amount…”
They aren’t, so who cares?
Sure!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
I am glad to see you made an attempt to identify your error, but that's the wrong logical fallacy.
What you did is:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring