You live in a country where the police actually does something on these cases?
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Naich@piefed.world 5 hours ago
I’ve cycled to work and back 59 times this year, and reported 36 drivers (with video evidence from my bike) to the police, with them taking “positive action” in 34 of those cases. But yeah, it’s the cyclists who are dangerous.
zloubida@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Naich@piefed.world 5 hours ago
Luckily, yes. There’s a web page where you fill in the details, you upload the footage and then they actually do something about it. Options for “positive action” are:
- Letter - which has the same status as a police warning, i.e. no action taken at the time but it can be used against you later if you go to court for something similar
- Points and fine with the option of taking a driving education course instead
- Points and a fine with no alternative
- Sent to court
FishFace@piefed.social 4 hours ago
Yeah but as a fellow cyclist I still laughed
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Narc ass cop lover
RogueBanana@piefed.zip 1 hour ago
Sarcasm right?
Syndication@lemmy.today 5 hours ago
Yeah I think the main problem isn’t the cyclists themselves, it’s that cyclists don’t have a safe place ride without getting ran over. Cyclists shouldn’t be a problem to drivers in the first place if they had their own lane or space. I’m lucky to live somewhere that has bike lanes and sidewalks on most streets. America strangely lacks basic infrastructure in a vast majority of their country. It really sucks ass if you have a fear of driving :(
Naich@piefed.world 5 hours ago
Cyclists aren’t a “problem” any more than traffic lights or stop signs are. Drivers should be able to deal with having to slow down a bit for a few seconds without getting upset about it. If you saw a driver shouting out of his window at a traffic light you’d think they were insane.
proudblond@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
To be fair, if I saw a driver shouting out their window to a bicyclist, I’d also think they were insane (and a monumental asshole).
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I had a traffic light swerve into the second lane as I was passing. I totally almost killed it.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Only “vehicular” cyclists are an issue, but TBH even other cyclists hate them.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 3 hours ago
What’s a vehicular cyclist?
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Meaning that, as usual, cars are the problem.
i_need_your_bones@piefed.social 2 hours ago
When they have their own lane and space cars still just use it. They park on the bike lanes, move into them if somebody’s passing on their left, or try and pass cars on their right if they find space during slow traffic.
thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I bike or walk pretty much everywhere I go, so my take on roads and traffic is that they’re usually far too car-centric (Norway). Even when I drive, I’m so used to thinking like a cyclist that I become very aware of how poorly roads are often designed around biking.
With that said… The amount of cyclists with an apparent death wish is just staggering. Just two days ago I passed a cyclist in an 80 km/h zone. No issue there. Just around the next turn, I caught up to a second cyclist that I couldn’t immediately pass due to oncoming traffic. I’m behind this second cyclist, going downhill at maybe 50 km/h, with oncoming traffic on a relatively narrow road, when I notice that the first cyclist has caught up to us. Instead of placing himself behind me, he decided it was a brilliant idea to squeeze himself into the ≈ 1.5 m gap between me (a 6m long, 2-ton car going at 50 km/h) and the guard rail. At this point, I’m just sitting here terrified that I’ll end up accidentally squeezing him into the guard rail and killing him if I happen to move a couple centimeters too close to the edge of the road. I’m seriously afraid of breaking to let him in front of me, because I’m afraid he could hit my side-view mirror if I break unexpectedly (for him). There’s oncoming traffic, so I can’t move over to give him more space.
To be honest, even when I’m biking myself I far too often find other cyclists to be absolute assholes with no respect for traffic rules. Of course, this doesn’t apply to everyone (by a long shot), but man those people cause the rest of us a lot of stress by being a danger to themselves and others.
Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
A lot of Cyclists seem to have car brain when biking, but don’t realize they are on a bike.
I have almost hit several cyclists that run red lights going 20+ MPH. Good thing I was paying attention…
When I lived in a walking friendly area, I used to keep a metal multitool in my hand to hit cars with when they tried to run me over.