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Bike Projector Makes Lane For Rider
hh4m writes "Whether it's San Francisco, New York, or any bicyclistic city in between, you're destined to witness biker after biker dancing with danger, especially at night when visibility is uncomfortably low. Alex Tee and Evan Gant's LightLane device was recently just a concept but is soon to enter reality as a much-needed visual declaration of personal biking space. With a dire shortage of dedicated lanes, LightLane provides urban cyclists with a solution that adapts to them and any route they make take. The compact projector mounts easily to the rear of a bike frame and projects a bike lane-inspired linear pattern that provides great visibility and a familiarity that helps catch a driver's attention."
You sound like a reasonable person.
Unfortunately you are absolutely in the minority when it comes to road bike riders who are generally growth hormone taking, tantrum throwing, pink lycra wearing, Tour De France wannabees. Who have a chip on their shoulder the size of their over inflated egos and ridiculous helmets.
They're the problem, they're the high visibility riders who ride three abreast up hill at 20k/h with 100 cars behind them, who run red lights and cut across intersections giving the drivers they cutoff the finger. And they deserve every bit of derision and every beating they get, not just from drivers but also from ordinary decent bike riders like you for the *enourmous* amount of ill will they generate towards people who ride pushies.
And yes I ride.
I am pressured not out of fear, or frustration, but because of the significantly increased level of danger of those other motorists up my ass and attempting to pass me. I would say that those who ignore the conditions of the road, which include other drivers and obstacles, should not be on the road in the first place. That includes the bicyclist and the motorists unsafely passing me out of frustration.
Asking me to stay in such unsafe conditions is unreasonable, and my desire to leave such unsafe conditions is not motivated out of fear or stress either.
NOT where I live. It's bike lanes only. We can all argue about legal entitlements that are going to vary from location to location, but that does not excuse all the behaviors of some of these cyclists does it?
It's not an issue of ME respecting anything. It's the law. When there is not a bike lane, it is neither safe nor considerate for bicyclists to occupy traffic lanes and roads not designed for them, but for traffic going much faster than they are. It is the bicyclists that are not being respectful and considerate of other people on this road.
Your vision of harmony lacks the awareness of the simple reality of it being significantly more dangerous for a bicycle to be on roads not designed to accommodate it, and that in many times the bicyclists actions are inconsiderate and illegal.