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Post by Urban Cycling Institute.

text: ‘New study into effectiveness of hi-viz for cyclists in car traffic’

  • by Brendan Gavrin

images: Two photos. One is captioned “Driver’s view of cyclist dressed in black”, the other “Driver’s view of cyclist dressed in hi-viz”. Both depict a phone in front of a steering wheel.

  • jecht360@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I see this a lot while on my bike. I simply behave as if anyone in a car cannot be trusted to follow any rules of the road or care about my safety.

  • Froyn@kbin.social
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    If they didn’t want to get run down by my car, why were they riding on the sidewalk?

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        Both hands? I’ve seen a double arm amputee riding a vespa with no hands. At all. Just no hands. They weren’t on their phone but it was inspiring to see.

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          1 year ago

          how
          also is it even possible to get a driver’s license without both hands?

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      I once witnessed someone on a softail (big harley) riding down the interstate trying to hold a phone to her ear. I could hear her bike over my bike from inside my helmet so I don’t know how she could hear.

  • doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    It really annoys me when I see people on bicycles or e-scooters just browsing Twitter or whatever on their phones. At least people looking at their phones in cars have a steel box around them to protect them from their stupidity

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      @doublepepperoni

      Last i saw a racing-biker with about 40km/h… he had such handlebars where he can lean on it to lie almost on his bike… tipping on his smartphone…

      I have always the urge to do a loud scream/shout…

      😁

      @Masimatutu

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    1 year ago

    I sort of had one of these moments the other day. I didn’t, in reality, but everyone else probably thought I did.

    Some jackass was walking across the road an 1/8 of a mile ahead of me on a very busy city street at rush hour. I was running my daughter between appointments, first appointment had started 20 minutes late so we were going to be cutting it really close on getting to #2 on time. Anyway, jaywalker was wearing a hi-vis jacket. He did not have a stop sign or anything in his hands. I figured he was crossing the street halfway because my 2 lanes of traffic were clear for him at that time, the other side was busy.

    He made it well past my lane so I went back to sending a txt to my wife about the first appointment (again, no other cars around me in my lanes). As I get near him, doing the speed limit, he starts shouting and waving his arms at me. I still have no idea wtf he was doing out there, but apparently he expected me to stop because he was standing in the middle of a busy street wearing a hi-vis jacket (I wear a hi-vis jacket for work and would expect people to run me tf over if I wandered out into a busy street randomly).