a lot more people die or are severely injured from getting hit by cars than from getting hit by bicycles
I'm often a pedestrian, and I gotta say: yes, a distracted or aggressive driver can kill ya, but it seems to me that a distracted or aggressive cyclist can still fuck you up pretty badly, and as a percentage by vehicle type I'm noticing a lot more of the latter lately
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if you're goal is minimizing death and injury it makes more sense to focus on cars
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Can you actually read or
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I'm experiencing a lot more behavior of this flavor and I'm not going to dismiss it just because someone is coming at me with a crowbar on wheels rather than a wrecking ball
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Also, any stats you get don't give a good picture. Cyclists hitting people don't always get reported. Often don't. And those terrorizing near-misses too. I used to work near the bike path in Manhattan. Peds got hit by cyclists frequently. Limped away from scene.
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I come close to getting clipped on the sidewalk pretty often
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I feel like you’re wrong.
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As a driver, bicyclists make me terribly nervous: they’re hyper-vulnerable, but also generally more risk-embracing and less predictable. As a dude who used to run at night in Brooklyn, they were were my principal fear—not cars or even cabs.
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