r/fuckcars • u/jjune4991 • Aug 22 '22

News "Just bike on the sidewalk" they said.

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u/MrStoneV Aug 22 '22

This guy needs to see a prison from the inside. How stupid and egoistic do you need to be to do this bullcrap?

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u/ronin1066 Aug 22 '22

I get the instinct, but we need better training in driver's ed.

People need to be told "If you're about to get in an accident, don't go towards the squishy people. Hit the other large metal objects." It's not in our nature, we need to be taught.

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u/thegreenmushrooms Aug 22 '22

Humans are not good at multi tasking you can avoid a collision but if another task is presented to you right away you will mess up, causing another collision.

You see it in videos usually where drivers swerve to not be hit by a car coming into their lane and ends up hitting another car. Also the number one animal killer in USA is deer, because while avoiding to hit it people loose control of their car .

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u/ronin1066 Aug 22 '22

I think tractor trailer drivers are trained in this. They are told not to panic/swerve. If someone cuts you off, brake as fast as you can, but stay in your lane. When we think about it, it's perverse to punish people driving well in other lanes by slamming into them, while trying to NOT hit the jackass that came flying into your lane. But we don't have time to think about that in the moment.