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A camera mounted on the bike/helmet is the best solution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqSp4XZX0CU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqSp4XZX0CU

• dusing 13y ago
  Funny how the video also shows them running a stop sign. I think you have to follow lights and stop signs even in the bike lane, right?
  • notatoad 13y ago
    Not necessarily. In some regions cyclists are legally allowed to treat a stop sign as a yield sign.
    • cobrausn 13y ago
      This sounds like an incredibly bad idea. This pushes even more responsibility onto the person operating several thousand pounds of metal, assuming they will make the correct snap judgement when a bike they didn't see rides out in front of them. It seems to me the bike riders have a lot more to lose at that stop sign than any car driver who doesn't see the bike.
      • koenigdavidmj 13y ago
        If it's a yield sign, then the biker should be going slowly enough that they can stop quickly upon seeing a car. You don't go full speed through a yield sign in a car, and you don't on a bike either. That law also applies only in Idaho.
      • _neil 13y ago
        This is getting further off-topic, but I generally treat stop signs as a yield when I'm riding. I approach slowly and if there is a car stopped/nearing the intersection, I will absolutely yield to them as I would in a car. The only difference is that, if possible, I will try to avoid wasting energy by stopping entirely. This is both for my own benefit and for those who may come after me. If I can maintain some of my kinetic energy, I can be out of the way much faster for the next person in line. I sometimes treat red lights as stop signs for the same reason. If I continue through the light safely, the people behind me will be less annoyed (and therefore less aggressive) about waiting for me to accelerate. Not everything cyclists do is simply because fuck cars.
        • jberryman 13y ago
          I do the same thing. One thing I'm careful about now though is always slowing down in acknowledgement of the stop sign, even if there's no one in the other directions. I started doing that after I noticed bikers bringing cars along with them when pedaling through a stop (presumably because the cars didn't notice the stop).
      • revelation 13y ago
        The biggest thing I lose stopping at a stop sign is momentum. Accelerating from zero is much more difficult than to keep going at 10km/h. For everything else, I have my eyes.
      • clarky07 13y ago
        No it doesn't. Yield sign has a meaning, and it's not go through oblivious to surroundings at full speed. It is slow down and make sure it's clear. If it's not clear, it means stop.
    • rfnslyr 13y ago
      Greatest law on earth. Saves me so much time every single day. I have to pass down my street which has 15+ stop signs just to get to the main intersection.
• enraged_camel 13y ago
  It's not much of a solution. I'm at work so I couldn't listen to the video, but I watched it. It seemed like he managed to capture what the car looks like (kinda sorta), but what is really needed is something that can reliably capture the license plate. There was one frame in this video where the license plate was sort of visible, but not readible.
  • aqme28 13y ago
    ...it was intentionally blurred. If you watch through the video they explain that the police use the license plate to actually catch the guy.
    • enraged_camel 13y ago
      I understand, and I suspected that. But still, I think the cyclist simply got lucky that he happened to catch the license plate on his camera. I mean, when you're falling off your bike, the last thing you're thinking about is to get a recording of the car.
      • BHSPitMonkey 13y ago
        Perhaps a bike or helmet with both front and rear camera sensors? That way you'll usually have some footage of the car's approach, though in low light it probably wouldn't help very much.
    • saalweachter 13y ago
      But then how will the mob exact justice?
• segmondy 13y ago
  how about better driver education? you say, camera? what if your govt proposes a camera at every corner as a solution? isn't that a good solution? a camera mounted on your bike/helmet might capture who ran you over. what we need is to prevent you from being run over in the first place. prevention is better than cure thus better driver education.