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As an avid cyclist, I can say that wide vehicles with high acceleration are my bane. When a vehicle is accelerating, the driver is intending to make it move bot
by craftinator 6y ago
As an avid cyclist, I can say that wide vehicles with high acceleration are my bane. When a vehicle is accelerating, the driver is intending to make it move both faster, and farther. It takes the driver time to shift their intent, then time to shift their feet, then time for the vehicle to stop. This is exacerbated by fast acceleration, is that the vehicle will gain both more speed and more distance by the time the driver shifts their intent, and their feet, than slow acceleration vehicles.
Also, wide vehicles have a much harder time dealing with pedestrians on bike lines and shoulders. I've been forced off the road so many times by Hummers and their ilk, and almost never by a sedan.
- kube-system 6y agoYes, having a higher speed decreases the amount of time the driver has to react to impending collisions. Even the slowest of passenger vehicles are capable of reaching unsafe speeds for surface streets within a couple of seconds. The majority of pedestrian collisions are due to inattention -- which is almost universally correlative with a lack of driver inputs. Someone looking at their phone is almost never applying 100% throttle. I would bet that your relative difference in experience between different types of vehicles is more of a function of: 1. vehicle size and shape compared to the total available road space 2. differences in driver attitudes as they correlate with the vehicles they choose to drive It is worth noting that the Hummers you find to be particular problematic are some of the slowest vehicles on the road. The average sedan today accelerates faster than any hummer ever made.