Chinese Traffic Accidents

[Vyacheslav]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QESfEd180rQ

Favorite part is at 2:01

[Flycatcher]

Indicative of their culture?

I THINK SO

[Kablizzy]

Jesus *fucking* Christ.

[aids]

Is it bad if I like 2:43? Mainly because the guy drives away.

[Vyacheslav]

Makes you wonder about the safety of Chinese cars...

[t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư]

Oh, walk it off.

[Destiny]

Do they have no system of priority on those crossroads at all? I love the chinese, but they can be real idiots sometimes.

[otters~1]

I like 1:11 a lot.

[moonlight]

Hhahaha, 2:01 is pretty hilarious, Chinese sometimes...

[bobaganuesh_2]

2:46!!

Edit: and 3:53!!

[Vyacheslav]

True story. I was driving home today and my road becomes a single-lane private road at some point. There was an old man on a bicycle in front of me. He never heard me coming, so I slowed down and drove for 10 seconds. Still, he had no idea that I was behind him. I flashed my high beams a few times and then he turns back, glares at me, and pulls to the grass. He was wearing headphones.

[otters~1]

True story. I was driving home today and my road becomes a single-lane private road at some point. There was an old man on a bicycle in front of me. He never heard me coming, so I slowed down and drove for 10 seconds. Still, he had no idea that I was behind him. I flashed my high beams a few times and then he turns back, glares at me, and pulls to the grass. He was wearing headphones.

Definitely a case for letting him walk it off.

[Tanner]

I ride my bike all over. During the summer, I try my very best to ride my bike more than drive my car. But every time I see a fellow cyclist wearing headphones, I go out of my way to flip them off. That said, plenty of drivers who are totally ignorant of the rules regarding bicycles. Three feet of clearance on every side, motherfuckers! I'm a vehicle too!

[otters~1]

That said, I never bike without my iPod, and I bike all the time, both for transportation and exercise. But I'm not an idiot, so I never discommode the drivers around me.

[Tanner]

That said, I never bike without my iPod, and I bike all the time, both for transportation and exercise. But I'm not an idiot, so I never discommode the drivers around me.

How do you defend riding your bike with headphones in? The reason that it's either illegal or frowned upon to drive a car with headphones on most places is because it significantly reduces situational awareness. You say that you never inconvenience other drivers. Jesus, I do. They're all having to into another lane to get around me. That's not the point. The point is that it's possible that you wouldn't know if you were inconveniencing another driver or even putting yourself in danger because you're relying entirely on vision to alert you to your environment and I doubt you have eyes in the back of your head.

[bobaganuesh_2]

Plenty of drivers who are totally ignorant of the rules regarding bicycles. Three feet of clearance on every side, motherfuckers! I'm a vehicle too!

this is why I bike on the sidewalk, especially in the suburbs. Drivers can't be bothered to accomodate cyclists and I can't be bothered to constantly swerve around parked cars.

[OneSevenNine]

So this is where Looney Tunes gets their ideas from.

[t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư]

That said, plenty of drivers who are totally ignorant of the rules regarding bicycles. Three feet of clearance on every side, motherfuckers! I'm a vehicle too!

When there's a bike lane, you use the fucking bike lane. I see you shitheads doing 15 mph in my 35 mph road too often to feel bad about tailgating anymore.
Not to mention: You can't demand to be treated like a car but conveniently stop being the equivalent of a car when it comes to stop signs, residential speed limits, and merging into traffic out of nowhere from the fucking sidewalk.
So I'm not treating you asshats like cars until you learn to behave like cars. Instead, all I ever see is you acting like punks, so that's how I treat you on the road.

[otters~1]

That said, I never bike without my iPod, and I bike all the time, both for transportation and exercise. But I'm not an idiot, so I never discommode the drivers around me.

How do you defend riding your bike with headphones in? The reason that it's either illegal or frowned upon to drive a car with headphones on most places is because it significantly reduces situational awareness. You say that you never inconvenience other drivers. Jesus, I do. They're all having to into another lane to get around me. That's not the point. The point is that it's possible that you wouldn't know if you were inconveniencing another driver or even putting yourself in danger because you're relying entirely on vision to alert you to your environment and I doubt you have eyes in the back of your head.

Most of this is not true. 1) I stay on the sidewalk when possible, thought that's less and less of the time these days (which is illegal yeah but what the hell else are they for, no one walks anymore); 2) I do much of my transportational biking and all of my leisure biking very late at night; 3) You can hear cars through a fucking iPod for god's sake, it's not a lawn mower; 4) With all modesty or whatever I'm an excellent biker and I know the extended neighborhood extremely well, so I'm rarely in a "dangerous" situation.


As to situational awareness, I'm far more aware when I bike than when I drive, just because of the open-ness. So headphones don't have quite the same effect.


Finally, I bike barefoot, and my toes /know/ things.

EDIT: In Austin, things are kinda different, btw. The "bike lane" is basically that striped line in between the two opposing lanes of traffic in most cases.

[Vyacheslav]

I wish Long Island had bike lanes everywhere.