--- title: How Bike Sharing is Safer Than Riding Your Own Bike description: Why bikesharing is safer, reinventing the Pulitzer, helping the public spot lies in political ads and more. canonical: https://time.com/4285049/bike-sharing-safer/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-07T16:01:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:09.200Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How Bike Sharing is Safer Than Riding Your Own Bike og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4285049/bike-sharing-safer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How Bike Sharing is Safer Than Riding Your Own Bike twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How Bike Sharing is Safer Than Riding Your Own Bike by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 7, 2016 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 7, 2016 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Here’s why bikesharing is safer than riding your own bike.**](http://www.fastcoexist.com/3058613/why-bike-sharing-is-way-safer-than-riding-your-own-bike) By Charlie Sorrel in Fast Co.Exist **2\.** [**Let’s reinvent the Pulitzer Prize for the digital age.**](http://www.poynter.org/2016/its-time-to-reinvent-the-pulitzer-prizes-for-this-media-age/404704/) By Benjamin Mullin in Poynter **3\.** [**Data literacy might protect the public from lies in political ads.**](https://hbr.org/2016/04/can-data-literacy-protect-us-from-misleading-political-ads) By Walter Frick in Harvard Business Review **4\.** [**Surveillance stifles dissent online. Here’s how.**](http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/04/how-surveillance-mutes-dissent-on-the-internet/476955/) By Kaveh Waddell in the Atlantic **5\.** [**Could these headphones make you a better athlete?**](http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/can-headphones-shock-your-brain-make-you-run-faster-and-jump-higher-180958632/) By Randy Rieland in Smithsonian  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4285049/bike-sharing-safer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4285049/bike-sharing-safer/"},"headline":"How Bike Sharing is Safer Than Riding Your Own Bike","datePublished":"2016-04-07T16:01:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:09.200Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4285049/bike-sharing-safer/","keywords":["Innovation","Surveillance","headphones","Pulitzer Prize"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4285049/bike-sharing-safer/","name":"How Bike Sharing is Safer Than Riding Your Own Bike"}}]}] ```