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Things like this make me terrified to ride a bike on the street with nothing but a painted line between me and tons of speeding metal.
Great point, but did you guys see what happened? The internet cables are pretty strong/well installed. The post came off like a twig but somehow the internet cable was A-OKAY!
On a side note: I wonder what the cost of all the bike-related crashes (caused by bikes) would add up.
A crash like the one in the video likely cost someone (insurance company, tax payers, other drivers, etc.) way more than hundreds of cyclist-caused crashes.
I'd be willing to bet that the administrative costs to have cycling insurance would likely be more than the insurance is worth.
Whereas with car insurance, you'd never be able to pay for the true cost of all the damage, lives lost, etc. That's why they cap liability to usually max $2,000,000.
I feel like most bike related crashes (not involving cars) are damage to the individual and not to property. Maybe to their bike, or minor damage elsewhere. If that's the case I would imagine medical insurance would be enough. I guess there are some really fancy bikes you might want to insure but you're right it's prob not worth the admin cost for even a 2 or 3k bike.
jeep dude with the frame-perfect brake slam
And then the NOPE! outta there
It is in at least parts of Japan (if not all of it now)
Am I the only one who regularly can’t see posts in this instance? It says media failed to load, and I feel like that constantly happens in fuckcars.
I can only see videos if I’m in the comment section. They never load if I click on it directly. On voyager on iPhone.
I think it's the "catbox.moe" hosting site that is the issue. At least for me.
(also if you’re using Quad9 DNS – Quad9 and Catbox have an long running beef with each other)
That might actually explain it! Thanks!
Loads for me on Connect app
Why is insurance not mandatory for cyclists?
Per the PPACA, health insurance is mandatory. This just isn't particular to cyclists because cycling isn't materially more dangerous than any other non-vehicular mode of transportation.
That's insurance for oneself.
Mandatory car insurance for drivers is liability insurance for everyone else. The driver is perfectly free not to insure their own vehicle (or their own injuries caused by their own driving).
The principle of health insurance is still that you are - statically - paying for someone else. It's liability for an unexpected injury or illness that exceeds ability to pay.
The difference between health and car insurance really boils down to the ability to total a car in a way you can't total a human being.
No, my point is that auto liability insurance covers the people you hurt while driving. It does not cover yourself or your own car, and it's perfectly legal not to insure your own car against your own negligence, even when it's required to insure everyone else's property against your own negligence.
The thing being insured is different, so an auto liability insurance mandate is fundamentally different from a health insurance mandate for oneself.
Asshole in the jeep couldn't be bothered to stop and check on the people
They should have stopped because they witnessed an accident, and were probably more than somewhat at fault.
Going to help when power lines are struck are a great way to increase casualties or create fatalities. Approaching from a safe distance and keeping them in the car is the safest thing to do until responders can get there.
You are assuming what they did after the clip ends. If it was me I would GTFO away from the falling power lines and stop a block away so to not impede traffic or emergency services. The guy could have called right out of frame.
With loose power lines? No thanks.
You don't know if he did a u-turn mid block and came back. He had to at least get out of the travel lane on the main road.
Maybe not that, bit have a look at the assholes who race at ebike top speed through the pedestrian zone.
Where is the source of the video? I’m almost convinced is AI, the grey car appears from nowhere and the black one when accelerates again after the “incident”, it seems to go to low on the asphalt, almost inside the street.
I believe this is the original. There's some extra footage as well so I'm fairly certain it's real. If you look closely, the grey car is hidden behind the black one right up until the moment it passes.
https://x.com/CBSNews/status/1543961632874823680
Sorry for the Twitter link
FYI for future reference, you can just switch the "x.com" part of the link with "xcancel.com" if you'd rather not send others to The Cesspool. A reflection of The Cesspool still smells, but not as much.
Thanks for it!
Don’t worry about it, there is always the Nitter link :)