We keep them around to crash into bollards for our entertainment
2 Likes
Wow. Did they catch the driver or are the cops not doing their job like usual?
Bro I don’t even need to click through to get this answer
1 Like
Yeah, I know.
What’s worse are the comments on r/oakland about it. The majority of them are about how the cyclists got what they deserved for blocking the road. Anything to the contrary was downvoted into oblivion.
Fucking car culture man.
3 Likes
That’s fucking horrible. We used to do that ride back in the day.
Speaking of acab
1 Like
speaking of dumb cars doing dumb car things:
even with a vast expanse of pavement and great sightlines, in an area that they should be driving slowly and cautiously due to it being a ped/bike promenade, motor vehicles manage to wreck into each other.
2 Likes
Reminds me of Alki ave in seattle were cars routinely end up flipped or on their side despite it being a 2 lane road with a 25mph speed limit.
brb raising venture capital to pay living expenses while I try to get hit by a city vehicle on a “safe street”
pretty good ROI on that I bet
6 Likes
Looking at the view and not at the road?
1 Like
Same result, but I think the details of the causes are somewhat different.
At Alki, I think it’s people expecting to bog down in beach traffic eventually, so they’re preemptively speeding if the road is empty to “make up time”. Also people just being fools “having fun” driving fast along the beach.
Based on the photo from SF, that’s a really wide expanse of asphalt with no traffic (looks like it’s restricted access to transit and official vehicles). With no interactions and easy driving, drivers just go faster and faster. Maybe even lack a perception of their excessive speed because it’s so “frictionless.”
Common denominator: cars.
1 Like
Humans suck at driving
That’s because people race on alki, and cruise, and are in general distracted a.f. it’s better than it was back in the 80’s and 90’s when it was essentially a rolling party with occasional gang violence. When I was a teenager (early 90s) my friends and I used to sneak out in the middle of the night and ride bikes around the neighborhood and we would see the SPD mobile precinct parked down there all the time.
1 Like
ftfy
1 Like
I would vociferously disagree with that assertion if you gave me the opportunity.
Humans are amazing, capable of reason, creativity, etc. Unfortunately, we have some quirks that remain to be worked out.
1 Like
I think they’re decent when they’re asked to, but as @earwig pointed out, that road was void of anything demanding the driver to focus on the task. Good road design makes you uncomfortable going over the posted speed limit.
Nah… Some have talent for it and some do it reasonably well, but all humans have primitive monkey brain which pattern matches on threats and ignores everything else.
Humans also have feelings, like the one in the video above that felt that it was a good idea to drive through a crowd of people on bikes.