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STUPIDVIPGUY@sopuli.xyz 10 months agoso the only case these apply are when the cyclist isn’t paying attention to their surroundings… which is the real reason it’s dangerous, and when you eliminate that, I would rather have bikes passing next to people than cars passing next to bikes, because the latter is actually deadly when someone does make a mistake
Nemo@midwest.social 10 months ago
You can’t anticipate someone stopping out of a storefront or doorway, though, especially not at speed. This is not something you can eliminate.
STUPIDVIPGUY@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Of course you can’t predict the future, and neither can motorists. What you can do is ride at a speed reasonably slow enough that you can react to people, and you can ride on the side of the pathway further from the doorways.
And like I said already, a bike on person accident at slow speed is favorable to risking my own life or life-changing injury by riding in the street.