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I started commuting by bike about 3 years ago and it was then that I realized how many bad motorists are on the street...and how many bad cyclists are on the st
by clt 17y ago
I started commuting by bike about 3 years ago and it was then that I realized how many bad motorists are on the street...and how many bad cyclists are on the street. I believe that every vehicle on the road, no matter the number of wheels, should follow the rules of the road. I think of traffic laws as a protocol. If some one doesn't follow the protocol, then there's ambiguity. And ambiguity will lead to accidents.
- jrockway 17y agoThis is true. But it is clear that licensing doesn't help anything; automobile drivers are required to know the rules of the road, but they violate them anyway. The best solution I can think of is to drastically reduce speed limits in areas where bicycles, cars, and pedestrians are going to be using the roads. Nothing moving faster than 20mph, and the once-fatal accidents become mere annoyances. It will never happen, though, because people would have to take public transportation to get to work quickly. The horror!