How else would you drive without getting in a wreck most days?

…what? Have you ever driven before? This behavior causes wrecks ALL THE TIME, it’s probably the #1 cause of wrecks. It’s definitely one of the most dangerous things a driver can do. Same applies to cyclists.

Have you ever heard the story of Darth Plagueis the Wise?

In this thread: people who don’t understand what power is.

It was about to turn red for the cyclist. Meaning it was red for the cars.

In most of the US, there’s no separate lights for cyclists.

In any case, you’re missing that the cyclist did the equivalent of coming from an adjacent lane to cut off cars next to him. No car can anticipate that, from a cyclist or from another car.

Oh man I saw a wreck just a week ago, right in front of me, because some moron decided to come to a FULL STOP on a freeway on-ramp, turn their blinker on, wait until there were literally no cars in the entire freeway, then scurry over across all lanes into the far left lane and start doing 30mph

Guess who came up behind them doing 65mph?

Guess who panicked and swerved directly in front of them?

The shitty thing is, because it’s technically a rear-end, there’s a good chance the driver doing everything right will be found at fault.

Well,

1. SF cyclists are entitled douchebag tech bros. Just unlikeable as people. Cycling (or at least, being vocal about your cycling) seems to attract the worst kinds of people.

2. No one is targeting cyclists. That’s not a thing. It’s a persecution complex dreamed up because: see above.

3. SF Bay drivers are some of the worst in the country. No, you’re not being targeted by the person running you off the road. They just do that. All the time. To everyone.

If you’re going at a slow speed maybe. A lot of cyclist infrastructure is next to roads with speeds of 40, 50, 60 mph.

So a cyclist darting out in front of oncoming traffic bears no responsibility if they get hit?

The scenario they’re talking about is in a 4-way intersection. Imagine you’re driving straight through an intersection; you have a green light, everything is fine. Then out of nowhere on your right side a cyclist zips by in front of you. You have 0.3 seconds to see them and apply the brake and have your car stop. That’s not always feasible.

In most places in the US we have pedestrians, vehicles, and bicycles all mashed together in close proximity. Statistically, there will be people killed by drivers who did nothing wrong.

Hell, there will be people killed by drivers because the pedestrian/cyclist did something stupid like run into traffic.

This law would cause a lot of harm to innocent people and I’m glad we don’t have it.

Depends on how rich you are.

Protected bike lanes. We’ve seen plenty of evidence that painted lines aren’t really good enough. Cars will just drive or park over them.

Man, cyclists/pedestrians like that crack me up

“The law says I have right of way!”

“Not the laws of physics, so you should still look both ways and be prepared.”

“REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE”

You mileage may vary. In my area, I see very few motorists run red lights or stop signs, but at least half of all cyclists do it.

Personally:

I live in the SF Bay Area, home of (imo) the 2nd worst drivers in the US (after Dallas-Ft Worth).

There’s also loads of cyclists. We have a lot of cyclist infrastructure (though not nearly enough).

Guess what, the ones doing the cycling are the same people as the ones doing the driving.

Bad driver in 4 wheels = bad driver in 2 wheels.

It’s the half you probably don’t want to be on anyway. Automated censorship is shitty.

That’s why it’s so juicy, they’re all such terrible people we don’t have to pick sides

I’d love to see a mechanic where mana points are just “here’s how much magic you can control” and you can go beyond that if you want to but crazy unpredictable things will happen and you will almost certainly die.

I’m outside all the time, which is where I see cyclists behaving like dumbasses

Yeah that’s not a thing. 100% persecution complex.

What the hell else are you going to do?

When I was younger I thought about trying to study the science of aging to hopefully reverse it. But as soon as I got into the field I realized that a) barring some miracle breakthrough, the technology will not happen in my lifetime; and b) the circumstances of my birth would make it incredibly difficult and unlikely that I could ever aspire to work in such a field. Going to college at all was a stretch, and I eventually had to drop out to start working.

So anyway, that option off the table, there’s no solution. You will die. Your options are to either let anxiety destroy any enjoyment you might get out of life, or just keep living anyway.