Mildly Infuriating

From my experience with a different fight in NYC, these people don't give a shit. They have no shame, they only care about their golden kickbacks.

Based on this and a couple recent other threads I am becoming pretty convinced that more and more of the people on Lemmy are children.

Edit: I can admit that I was a dumbass who thought that I could do all the things while driving as a teenager. I am guessing the people downvoting me are either teenagers or people who don’t remember being teenagers.

If you've ever driven through American cities, you'll see that a high percentage of drivers aren't really driving. They're using their phone and tangentially feeding occasional input into their vehicles. Automakers keep adding Federally required "safety" features to cars like auto-brake and lane-departure correction, I've heard from some people they use those to make an ersatz "autopilot" and just let the car ping-pong down the road while they use their phones. Others, as soon as they *almost *come to a stop, the phone is already in their hand again and they're paying zero attention to their surroundings, probably thinking they're being a "smart" cell phone driver.

It is rare I see a USian driver actually operating their vehicle as their sole focus these days.

I've personally got in the habit of managing cars behind and in front of me with longer stopping distances and early brake flashing to get their attention off their phones and back on the road so I don't become an SUV sandwich, and also a quick polite horn toot when the drivers in front don't realize the light cycle has been green for 5 seconds because some other driver didn't pull forward, because all of the front drivers are on their phones.

So, they probably feel like they have to defend their idiocy.

you need to understand, that the murican car industry has made everything unreachable by walking and biking. its a total alien form of transport in newnaziland.

The solution is obviously that the bikers are to join the daily traffic jam in a car, instead of entirely skipping the queue like selfish bastards.

/s, for the satire-impaired.

Cyclists weren’t allowed on the bridge at all until the bike lane, since it was a freeway bridge, so they hope they’ll just go away (and probably encourage them to buy cars or take the once-an-hour bus).

They want to scare cyclists into not cycling at all

It's probably on a hands free mount rolling at the camera angle.

However, it's still illegal to have video playing within view of the driver, so he's still breaking the law

No, it is not legal. This bike path is part of the Bay Trail, which was enacted by State legislation, and served as mitigation for environmental damage done by Caltrans highway work. The BCDC was specifically created by the legislature to ensure maximum feasible public access to the Bay. So voting to close the path violates any number of laws and policies.

As for driving while distracted by the phone...yeah that's also illegal.