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[–] 53 points 1 month ago (42 children)

Everyone is an asshole here, blowing through red lights. Fuck everyone involved. Nothing to do with cars or bikes. I'm pissed.

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  • [–] 57 points 1 month ago (40 children)

    Nope! Cars and bikes have different traffic laws. Where I live what the cyclist did is perfectly legal because they only have to yield but not stop and they expected the car to stop as it should have.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    The most dangerous place for cyclists is the middle of an intersection. Bicycles do not have A pillars, and thus no blind spots. If the intersection is clear, the cyclist should continue through without stopping to leave the intersection faster. Bicycles are slow to start, and can only take evasive actions while in motion. So its much safer to not stop.

    Those laws are good and make cyclists safer. Some places may have different laws, but any law telling cyclists to stop at all stop signs should be disregarded. Ensuring your own safety is far more important than appeasing bureaucrats.

    Edit: Just re-read my own local traffic laws and cyclists can legally treat stop signs as yeild signs here too!

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  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago (26 children)

    Where I live bicycles and cars have to follow the same rules.

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  • Just to be clear, this is different states by state. Some states allow a yield at a stop sign for cyclists. Some require a strict stop like ant other vehicle on the road. There may even be stricter city ordinances too. Know your local laws before cycling through a stop.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    They're certainly right about that last sentence, but not in the way they think.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    When I drive I'm aware that I'm in the killing machine which means to me that if a bike comes to an intersection and doesn't look like they're stopping I consider them having the right of way no matter the situation.

    I make space for mopeds and give them also extra care if they're doing something dumb just because in a collision I'm not the one getting injured. For example in a congested roundabout I know they're probably going to filter through and pass in front of my car so I just make space so that it can be done safely.

    Safe and predictable.

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    [–] 21 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    Never in a million years could understand why somebody in a vehicle, who has but to move their foot a half centimeter in order to accelerate, feels the need to be ahead of all the cyclists and make sure all the rules are obeyed perfectly.

    Really, who gets a fuck if some dude on a bike saves a half second so he doesn't have to burn off legs getting up to speed again.

    For fuck sakes, I both drive and I cycle, and I've never understood.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    This is something I have been also wondering for ages and on top of that they sit in a cabinet shielded from elements in a stable temperature.

    Yet they need to speed up to make the turn 0,5 seconds before the bike passes the crossing while almost killing the bicyclist in the process.

    Insane.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Have you tried being a piece of shit?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Does throwing a glass bottle at a car's windshield when they intentionally tried to run me off the road when I was blading, count as an asshole?

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    [–] 20 points 1 month ago

    I know that when I'm super angry, my red face can be read as embarrassed by stupid assholes.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    What he did was fucking horrible, but please explain to me why it should be okay for a bicycle to not use the stop sign?

    Always told my kids that the cemetery is full of people with right away.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    About 15% of the US population lives in states with Idaho Stop laws, where bicyclists are allowed to treat stop signs as yield signs, and just under half of those also allow them to treat red lights as stop-then-yield signs. This has provided hard data indicating such a practice is measurably safer for cyclists, I believe at least partially because a disproportinate amount of collisions involving them happen in intersections and not needing to slow down for them means cyclists spend less time in those high danger zones. Given how much advice I was given as a driver boiled down to "drive safely, even if that means breaking the law" (especially given in regards to speed limits), I think it is perfectly justified for a biker to do the same, and act in the safer manner even if the laws says to do something else.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    A lot of states (can't speak for the rules in Europe) have laws that allow cyclists to treat stop signs as yields. This is supposed to be safer for cyclists. It also allows cyclists to be more energy efficient and faster, because accelerating is the hardest part of cycling and it takes a long time compared to coasting through an intersection.

    The video below does a good job giving a brief overview of why this change was made.

    Personally, I still look both ways before going through a stop sign, and, if I see vehicles, I'll slow down enough so that I can react if needed. Check your local laws to see how cyclists should treat stop signs.

    https://youtu.be/KCs5nDEZpoM

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    Because most of the infrastructure it meant to enable cars, the ultimate death machines. It is infra necessitated by and built for them. Look at any of the numerous yt-vids by the channel "bicycle dutch" from mayor dutch cities during rush hour to get an idea of what traffic without cars looks like - no stop signs, no lights, no nothing. Also, moderate starting and stopping increases energy demand per cycled stretch by up to 25%, compared to basically 0 for the automatic driving fatass in the pickup.

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    [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    That's literally assault: Threatening to do harm to another person. I don't know why we're censoring this person's username, this should be getting forwarded to law enforcement.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    As a non-USAian I'm a little confused. Do you guys have intersections where BOTH roads get a stop sign? I've only ever seen intersections where one road is the default right of way, and the intersecting road has to stop. Both roads stopping seems really confusing.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    @dellish @destructdisc

    We have one of these in Wellington NZ. It's the final testing point on your practical driver's licence test and it's only about 20 metres from the testing station. There's no right answer about who gives way but is designed to see how safely you manage a strange situation. However, they are public roads and non-testees have to negotiate it as well. Surprisingly few problems, though.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    There's literally no lesson here related to not stopping. A car not stopping is independent of the bike stopping or not at a atop sign.

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