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A hill I’ll die on.
The only thing that will make riders safer are safer drivers. That’s it end of.
As an example when you are learning to drive you check to see if anything is coming at a junction, if there is you stop. If you were checking to see if the road way clear, so that you don’t have to stop the roads would be safer. Drivers are programmed to keep moving, don’t hold up others etc etc if the default was stop not go the roads would be safer.
Another example is when a driver has their full beam on and are driving towards you and they don’t dip the lights it’s not because they haven’t seen you it’s because fucks given none.
They can all see you when you don’t have any lights on at all, just look on mumsnet etc for countless reports of seeing seas of riders wearing black with no lights on their bikes.
Those laser lane things only work if drivers aren’t on the phone, on gas, pissed, thinking I’ve got 129 deliveries to make before I can finish my shift what’s that postcode, will the kids still be up so I can tuck them into bed when I get in.
NOBODY GIVES A FLYING FUCK ABOUT YOU ON YOUR BIKE.
Yes all drivers. And I say that as a driver.
Chaley-
Those laser lane things only work if drivers aren’t...
So you say they work right there. There's nothing a light can do about drivers not actually presenting their retinas; nobody imagines otherwise.
The thing is, people are ripe for capitalist harvesting as motorists, so something as destructive to the interests of profiteering multinationals as preventing a significant proportion of them from being allowed to inflict their negligence on everyone by means of say, printing fewer licenses on the back of cereal boxes, will never get up.
Kimmo
Seems like a dubious claim... Anyone seen those laser bike lane ones? Surprised they didn't become more of a thing.