• bcgm3@lemmy.world
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      But why think of others or move your body unnecessarily when you could just buy a truck large enough to crush all other objects in the roadway?

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        TIL, side mirrors, on newer cars, fold both directions. I often adjust them to assist incompetent drivers.

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          I was once walking on a pedestrian path when a car parked in front of me. I told them that foot path were not, in fact, parking spots.

          The guy told me he was a nurse and he had a job and I could walk around his car and stop being a little removed and then he left.

          So I smashed both wing mirrors of his Mercedes. Hope he made enough in this visit to cover the cost.

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              Nah. This is the only language these cunts understand: consequences.

              If everyone smashed their shit every time they parked like idiots, they’d think twice before doing it.

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      As a Dutch person. We don’t do this. We just look in the mirror.

      Question to the Americans. If you crash into that door is that a liability case? I would thing litigation wise the car driver is liable, am I right?

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        Maybe relevant: As I was driving my car into a parking space, the guy in the next car over suddenly opened the driver’s side door. It happened so quickly no human could have stopped in time. At first his insurance tried to blame me, but my insurance pointed out that he was at fault because he opened his door into traffic. He paid for damages.

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        Question to the Americans. If you crash into that door is that a liability case?

        it is, except both people willl sue each other.

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        Yeah but back passenger seats have no mirror. As a Dutch person I have taught my kids to do the reach.

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        When I was in school, a guy in a car hit me riding my bike in a parking lot. He tried seeing me (my parents more correctly). He ended up paying for my first year of college. It wasn’t that much money, this was a long time ago.

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    I would really like there to be automatic door opening systems with door locking when an object enters a defined approach space.

    In truth, I would really like there to be no more cars at all…

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    If you are on a bike share bike, just brake slow enough to hit door. Bike will be fine, door will be fucked, and it will be their fault.

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      Yeah, because escalating physical confrontations with random people never goes wrong.

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      I usually knock on the door gently with one of my knuckles for asshats really obstructing the bike lane.

      From the inside it sounds like I hit them, but realistically there’s no harm.

      I’ve had one or two people get out of their cars, but most people just get the idea that they shouldn’t be parking there and move on.

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        I couldn’t even. Watching this shoet video convinced me to carry a bat if I ever rode a bike in the city. Just smash any vehicle in my way.

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      There’s advantages to being passive aggressive, like making the other person feel like an asshole. Only works if the other person has the capability to feel shame, though.

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    Car 1 sucks and car 2 super sucks. Truck is just doing his job and often there is no good place for them to load/unload. Last car there is no way they could have known a bike was coming due to truck.

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      Sure, there’s no place for trucks to unload, but take that space from cars, not bikes. Cars can circle the block or wait for 10 mins while they unload, but bikes passing by need to use the space for 5 seconds.

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    Why is everyone opening their doors in the road in the first place? I’ve never been to a big city so I don’t know how it is

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      Car dependent infrastructure often leaves no good spaces to just pull over and park in. You gotta account for those spaces and pay for them or keep the road liminal, making things like this common in the states when civilians are trained to hate cycling.

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        If it’s a car dependent infrastructure how come OP is on a bike, in a bike lane

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          This might shock you but lines of paint on an asphalt road is not cycling infrastructure. Its dangerous, as the video portrays.

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    LA needs to get with the program, Seattle is installing concrete barriers to separate cars from bike lanes because as the video shows, car drivers don’t give a fuck

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    I had a bike commute in LA where the same truck passed me every morning and swerved into me. Lots of undiagnosed mentally ill people on the roads.

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    The parking lane is too small for the truck, so the truck is in the bike lane.

    Should the truck drive up on the curb to avoid the bike lane or should the truck have enough room to exist fully away from the bike lane?

    Urban planning intensifies

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        How do we move stuff? Toss your washer and dryer on top of your Tesla? Contractors load up big trucks daily, filled to the brim with siding, garage doors, electric supplies, you name it. It is a standard. The only people not following it are the city. Those trucks are as wide as they’ve been for 30 years. Those bike lanes have only been there for two or three if the paint is anything to go by. What’s the hold up? I guess nobody at City Hall has a proper tape measure.

        Cool, double standards are ok if it’s someone else’s problem. You sure you’re so far removed from a conservative?

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    Hypothetically, if you were intending to break a wing mirror to save someone’s life… Punch down, pops right off. Hypothetically, armoured gloves would be best for this, which would protect you’re hands in the event of a crash.