Comment on Team Car!

YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Bullshit. Cyclists obey the rules of the road at greater rates than drivers. It’s just that you expect drivers to behave like entitled dipshits, so their lawbreaking is less visible.

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  • criss_cross@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’ve never once seen a cyclist stop at a stop sign. Even into oncoming traffic they just ignore them and hope for the best.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Are cyclists supposed to stop at stop signs there? Here they aren’t. They are supposed to treat them as yield signs

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      • criss_cross@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        In my state they are expected to follow the rules of the road and stop at stop signs and traffic lights.

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      • NABDad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It varies by state.

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    • SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I stop at stop at stop signs, and see others do, too. So it happens. Probably as often as drivers stop at stop signs.

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  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So much to dissect here

    First: drive(cycle) predictively, not politely.

    Second: I just left a comment about not liking car culture(go on, check my profile. I’m not lying.)

    Third:I don’t expect anything! I get into the other lane if there is a cyclist. But go on, tell me more about myself.

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    • SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Oh, I did do that, didn’t I? Crap. I meant it in the general-you sense. But still, cyclists obey the law more often than drivers when researchers do objective counts.

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      • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        cyclists obey the last more often than drivers

        Yeah. My limited experience in addition to statistics, says you’re correct.

        Didn’t mean to start an argument, and I’ll apologize for it.

        I’m sorry.

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  • HerbGrower@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah. When every car is breaking the speed limit and it just gets ignored. But bring up speeding and oh that doesn’t count.

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• mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  no less so than drivers are, so it’s kind of an irrelevant point

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