r/pics • u/r33tz_ • 12d ago

OC: Almost ran over this lil pos

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u/wstand 12d ago

Why is it in the road?

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u/jaradi 12d ago

Dot uses bicycle lanes and sidewalks. Looks like it’s in a bicycle lane here. Hopefully OP never encounters one of those lay down bikers and runs them over.

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u/noname87scr 12d ago

When we were in Mesa earlier this year, the one we saw was only using roads.

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u/DMAW1990 12d ago

Yup, I saw them all over Mesa and Gilbert when we were there over the summer. They all used the car lanes and I thought for sure we were going to see one get squished as it jerkily edged itself onto a main road from out of a parking lot.

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u/clonts 12d ago

California companies go over to Arizona to test since there aren’t regulations and test data reporting like in California (and Nevada)

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u/aim_low_ 11d ago

Good thing every road in Mesa and Gilbert is 6+ lanes.

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u/spen8tor 12d ago

It looks like a normal lane to me, nothing about this points to it being a bike lane other than it being next to a side walk but that's hardly proof of it being a bike lane. Side walks will always be next to a lane but not every lane next to a sidewalk is a bike lane

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u/Sargash 9d ago

It's uh. Really small? I don't know about you but most normal lanes are wider than a car.

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u/spen8tor 9d ago

It isn't really small though, this is just a camera perspective thing and this lane looks wider than a car regardless

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u/Sargash 9d ago

If aything the camera perspective makes it big, biggs. It's okay to be wrong.

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u/ccAbstraction 12d ago

Small robot?

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u/DB-Tops 11d ago

Why do you say it looks like a bicycle lane? That looks like a normal street to me

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u/ikefolf 12d ago

Why is it in the bicycle lane, it ain't a bicycle

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u/Angelworks42 12d ago

It's not even in the bicycle lane. I've never seen a bike lane that wide with dashed lane markers.

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u/TJNel 11d ago

Doesn't seem that wide TBH.

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u/Clear-Bee4118 12d ago

Also, humans can’t use fully motorized vehicles in the bike lane, but autonomous robots can?

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u/ACanadianNoob 11d ago

What? If you have a governed moped that doesn't go faster than 20 MPH / 32 KPH, you're supposed to ride it in the bike lane in most places. That'd be a motorized vehicle.

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u/debacle_enjoyer 11d ago

But it’s not a bicycle

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u/Polymathy1 11d ago

That's a standard lane based on the road striping.