Having concluded that ride sharing is probably not as safe as we thought it was, and that active hitching is probably much safer than we thought it was, is it in fact possible that active hitching is safer than organised ride sharing!? Who's to say? The data aren't in. But I think there is good reason to suspect so. At the very least, ride sharing and active hitching may be in a comparable risk category. The safety net of a pseudo-official organisation called a ride-sharing agency is, I suspect, a little illusory.
Finally, it would pay the safety-conscious hitcher to consider as far as possible to hitch actively and exercise the power of judgement. That is precisely how my girfriend got back to Berlin - we took a bus to a nearby motorway services and asked around for a ride, which she continued all the way home, making it to Berlin in good time.
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