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Title	cool
Author	bimbobobthebuilder
Upvotes	992
Comments	56
Date	June 23, 2020 6:28 PM UTC (6 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/PussyPass
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/PussyPass/comments/hek2aq/cool/
Archive Link	https://theredarchive.com/r/PussyPass/cool.1197214 https://theredarchive.com/post/1197214

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It does when you hit them, someone has to pay for damages to person/bike or car, doubt it would cost a few cents to get any of it looked at or if the driver swerves to avoid running a person over in a panic (no different than a car doing the wrong thing and causing someone to panic, move and hit something) over and hits something or person.

Where I live it's the next step up with kids on petrol or electric bikes or even just push bikes and won't even look before using an intersection/roandabout or even just crossing a road.

The lack of common sense on the road can leave to lives lost and I don't want to kill a person by accident cause they decided to zoom past me, a compulsory road class would do wonders for people that want to use it.

I can't tell you how many times I have almost hit a kid or adult on a bike because they are in the opposite side of the road on a blind corner and suddenly meeting with a car, so many close falls.

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Agreed, it's an incredibly outdated and dangerous law that bikes are exactly the same as cars in terms of traffic laws.

The rules need to change. Bikes should have to allow car traffic to clear before using the road when there is no bike lane. I'm so sick of seeing people who are clearly out riding for excercise or hobby using a lane on a major highway with a 55mph speed limit, creating a dangerous situation, when they could have easily stuck to side roads and trails instead. I especially hate seeing that cyclist pull off the road finally and up to his car THAT HE DROVE OUT OF HIS WAY IN ORDER TO CYCLE ON A BUSY HIGHWAY HE DOESNT EVEN LIVE NEAR.

Laws like that empower assholes to do asshole things creating dangerous situations to feed their entitlement complexes, which is exactly why it wont change. Those same assholes fight tooth and nail in court to protect their right to endanger the lives of themselves and commuters.

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Thank you for the correction. As you might have guessed, English is not my first language. Now, about the issues:

Being predisposed to kill somebody with your car just because, according to you, it was "their fault" is just wrong. I'm sorry you think that way. And it might confirm something I suspected but hadn't heard verbalized before. Being willing to kill a fellow human under this circumstances might be behind many more killings of cyclists than we knew. Of course, if the motorist gets caught, they won't admit it. They'd say they're sorry, that it was an accident. In any case, this frame of thought you have explained so clearly strengthens the case for harsher laws against motorist that kill cyclists, because in many cases it will be consequence of a way of thinking that justifies this kind of killings.
Yes, there are stupid cyclists as there are stupid motorists; both can and do cause damage to other people. But it is clear that cars kill and cripple many more people than bicycles. When I drive a car (I still do, sometimes) I put me in a mindset that I am operating a lethal weapon, and so I must proceed with extreme care toward pedestrians, cyclists and other motorist.
I am not complaining about climate change. I just make a point that for every person that chooses to ride a bicycle instead of driving a car we are all better of (including you) for the reasons I mentioned. More cyclists and fewer motorists in the roads means better health for your lungs, fewer probabilities for you and your family to die in the road, and less severity of the looming climate crisis. So you should be grateful and more friendly to us cyclist :)

Please let's try to keep this dialogue civil. There is no need to be rude against people just because they think different from you. Have a great day.

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