Yeah. And, call me a fucking bleeding heart, but for some reason I also dislike the idea of inadvertently helping someone kill themselves, no matter how fucking stupid they might have been.bhoytony wrote:So if I hit and kill a cyclist who runs a red light, the only damage to me is to my paintwork? How about if I react instinctively to try and avoid him and hit another road user or pedestrian?decius wrote:
The risk cyclists pose to cars is a few scratches to the paintwork at worst. With increased velocity, volume, mass and momentum comes increased responsibility.
Further, more bicycles on the road entail significant decongestion to traffic, something you car drivers benefit from at no personal cost.
Just visit the Netherlands or Berlin and take a good look around, if you don't believe me.
As usual you are a whining gobshite.
And before any of my statements are taken as a two wheels bad, four wheels good [or vise versa] sort of thing, let me just add that I'm plenty aware that there are idiots on any amount of wheels. I drove professionally for a while, both for the military and as a civilian, on anything from four to eighteen wheels, and I've seen enough to know that humans are the common element...
