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oof. As a motorcycle rider Looking at the video is hard. Im always vigilant but sadly, I'd probably have plowed right through the woman. The street lights se
by nimbius 9y ago
oof. As a motorcycle rider Looking at the video is hard. Im always vigilant but sadly, I'd probably have plowed right through the woman. The street lights seem to do absolutely nothing.
People are unpredictable...however this kind of crossing feels familiar. In Los Angeles we have transients that are known to wander through 5 lanes of empty street at 5 AM with impunity. Ive been hard-stopped by wagon trails of shopping carts laden with old rags and garbage, being pulled by an elderly sisyphean figure cloaked in old comforters and tarpaulins. Ive also had the unfortunate luck to see a garbage truck plow through a stolen utility cart from Home Depot, conveniently parked by a homeless woman in the center of an off ramp as she was engaged in a furious battle with unseen forces under an adjacent bridge.
Transients are also struck and killed on our highways almost semi annually. not to mention the occasional car-through-a-homeless-camp
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/los-angeles-homeless-camp-hit-car-jumped-california-freeway/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/los-angeles-homeless-camp-hit-c...
My point is, its easy to sensationalize a computers miscalculation. Humans in control may have also made this mistake.
- brokenmachine 9y agoAnd yet you didn't make that mistake when you were in a very similar situation. I don't think I would have hit that lady pushing the bike. If I saw her slowly meandering into the left lane like that, I would have slowed down. The car just plowed ahead at full speed. In fact, it plowed ahead, at night, at 3mph over the speed limit. I've seen my own dashcam videos that look very similar to that, and in reality things are much more visible than what the dashcam shows.