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>When you're on two wheels all cars are trying to kill you. No other threat model makes sense. I realize this is a low value comment, but this is absolutely tr
by soperj 6y ago
>When you're on two wheels all cars are trying to kill you. No other threat model makes sense.
I realize this is a low value comment, but this is absolutely true. Whether through negligence or not, they display over and over again that it's true.
- romanoderoma 6y agoIf it was true, there would be no biker left alive
- mumblemumble 6y agoI don't know that it is that drivers are actively trying to kill me. I think it's that there's some phenomenon, yet to be documented by science, that causes people to become more solipsistic when they are operating a motor vehicle. The net result being, they don't recognize a clear moral difference between cyclists, pedestrians, and orange construction barrels, and see their most noteworthy difference as being the fact that some move faster than others.
- mulmen 6y agoAs the next sentence says this is a threat model, not a literal description of reality. To rephrase when I started riding motorcycles I was told "it is better to be wrong and alive than right and dead". When the risk is my life I won't trust anyone else to make the right decision. I don't literally think that all drivers are on a murderous rampage but I choose my own actions as if they are.