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I get your idea, but it does rather sound like asking a 4,000lb death robot to follow you around closely and hope that it doesn’t screw up …
by sonofhans 7mo ago
I get your idea, but it does rather sound like asking a 4,000lb death robot to follow you around closely and hope that it doesn’t screw up …
- amarant 7mo agoTo turn the colourful phrasing against you, I too would like a death robot to protect me from all the murder monkeys having a death race around me if I was out biking on the road/death race track.
- vel0city 7mo agoWouldn't the better solution be to prevent those murder monkeys from doing the death races around where people would want to cycle? Some kind of grade-separated trail? More regulations on those murder monkey death races? Crazy thought, I know.
- amarant 7mo agoThe grade separated trail sounds great in theory, but in practice it's surprisingly ineffective for some unknown reason. In Sweden we have a ton of those and for some reason bikers insist on participating in the death race with the other murder monkeys. Which is annoying because it can really slow the race down! But I guess once they have a good alternative, at least their death race participation is voluntary, and so I guess they're fair game like the rest of us
- toast0 7mo agoSeperate is not equal. Grade separated bike routes are often not the best routes. We don't even fully grade separate rail based murder machines from tire based murder machines.
- vel0city 7mo agoSorry, yes, I didn't necessarily mean full grade separation, I was mostly thinking about just separated bike lanes in general. Having some kind of real buffer between the cyclists and the murder monkeys. https://www.txdot.gov/manuals/des/rdw/chapter-18-bicycle-facilities-/18-4-bikeway-types/18-4-2-separated-bike-lanes-.html https://www.txdot.gov/manuals/des/rdw/chapter-18-bicycle-fac...