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Your comments in this thread strongly suggest you are unsuitable for driving cars on public roads. The law rightfully places significant burdens on those operat

Your comments in this thread strongly suggest you are unsuitable for driving cars on public roads. The law rightfully places significant burdens on those operating multi-ton vehicles in the close proximity of pedestrians and cyclists. It also recognizes bicycles as proper vehicles, giving them the right to ride on roads, at the speed and position the situation calls for. I sincerely hope you won't ever hit anyone. This kind of attitude will do you no favors.

bane 12y ago
I've been driving for 23 years in about as many countries with not a single traffic accident (though I'll admit to a couple speeding tickets). I've driven in weather, climates and conditions as varied as polar winter conditions to mountains and desert. I have something over a million road miles under my belt which puts me at near 20,000 hours of on the road driving experience in mixes of cities to extreme rural environments. I feel comfortable saying I'm a driving expert and that I'm a very safe driver. I've never felt safe sharing pavement with a cyclist. Ever. Not for my own personal safety, or because of some dubious legal requirement, but for the safety of the cyclist. If you think that makes me sound like some kind of wild west psychopathic car driver hellbent on a Death Race high score spree I suggest you rethink that. The law also puts requirements on bike riders when using public roads. It's not an unburdened responsibility. However, bicyclists would like to make it a responsibility of car drivers only (as the comments in this thread pretty clearly indicate), and have an unlimited right to use infrastructure that wasn't designed or built with them in mind. However, enforcement of those laws on bicyclists is virtually nonexistent. The reason I feel unsafe around cyclists is that not only am I operating a complex, multi-thousand pound machine that can take me to triple digit speeds in under a minute, but because cyclists don't seem to be aware that I'm doing involved in that operation. They'll routinely swerve out into traffic, cut across busy intersections and otherwise behave like all the world revolves around them. Not all cyclists are like this. But I'm hard pressed to find many that observe even some fraction of the laws they're supposed to follow.
- endzone 12y ago
  there is zero chance you're a good driver. you seem pretty deluded

bane 12y ago

I've been driving for 23 years in about as many countries with not a single traffic accident (though I'll admit to a couple speeding tickets). I've driven in weather, climates and conditions as varied as polar winter conditions to mountains and desert. I have something over a million road miles under my belt which puts me at near 20,000 hours of on the road driving experience in mixes of cities to extreme rural environments. I feel comfortable saying I'm a driving expert and that I'm a very safe driver. I've never felt safe sharing pavement with a cyclist. Ever. Not for my own personal safety, or because of some dubious legal requirement, but for the safety of the cyclist. If you think that makes me sound like some kind of wild west psychopathic car driver hellbent on a Death Race high score spree I suggest you rethink that. The law also puts requirements on bike riders when using public roads. It's not an unburdened responsibility. However, bicyclists would like to make it a responsibility of car drivers only (as the comments in this thread pretty clearly indicate), and have an unlimited right to use infrastructure that wasn't designed or built with them in mind. However, enforcement of those laws on bicyclists is virtually nonexistent. The reason I feel unsafe around cyclists is that not only am I operating a complex, multi-thousand pound machine that can take me to triple digit speeds in under a minute, but because cyclists don't seem to be aware that I'm doing involved in that operation. They'll routinely swerve out into traffic, cut across busy intersections and otherwise behave like all the world revolves around them. Not all cyclists are like this. But I'm hard pressed to find many that observe even some fraction of the laws they're supposed to follow.

endzone 12y ago
there is zero chance you're a good driver. you seem pretty deluded