Drivers and pedestrians break rules to save time, cyclists do it for safety

Re:Drivers and pedestrians break rules to save time, cyclist... by mumblemumble on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @04:51PM (#24497730)

I don't know that it is that drivers are actively trying to kill me. I think it's that there's some phenomenon, yet to be documented by science, that causes people to become more solipsistic when they are operating a motor vehicle.

The net result being, they don't recognize a clear moral difference between cyclists, pedestrians, and orange construction barrels, and see their most noteworthy difference as being the fact that some move faster than others.

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Re:Drivers and pedestrians break rules to save time, cyclist... by mulmen on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @04:59PM (#24497829)

As the next sentence says this is a threat model, not a literal description of reality.

To rephrase when I started riding motorcycles I was told "it is better to be wrong and alive than right and dead".

When the risk is my life I won't trust anyone else to make the right decision.

I don't literally think that all drivers are on a murderous rampage but I choose my own actions as if they are.

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