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Life Recorder
Bruce Schneier writes "In 2006, writing about future threats on privacy, I described a life recorder: A 'life recorder' you can wear on your lapel that constantly records is still a few generations off: 200 gigabytes/year for audio and 700 gigabytes/year for video. It'll be sold as a security device, so that no one can attack you without being recorded."
Odly enough none of the dickhead drivers have ever done their obscentiy yelling or object throwing anywhere near stop signs, when passing them or near an intersection.
No it's always on a long stretch of road when a car full of Typical Young Male Car Enthusiasts pulls level while I'm cycling reasonably close to the side, scream some bullshit, throw a can and accelerate away laughing.
But let me guess- because you sometimes see some random cyclists breaking traffic laws you have rationalised that it's perfectly ok to act like that to any cyclist you see.
Why can't you apply your brakes safely? If not you are driving dangerously. If you are driving dangerously then how is it my fault?
The fact is the car is the danger. Also the truck. The only fault I have is that I am paying my taxes to subsidise your unethical and unsafe behavior in public. But I can't opt out of that even if it ruins my city, planet and kills and maims people around me.
If there were any justice people driving cars in cities would be criminally prosecuted. And people could then move on to comfort issues and minor threats like bicycles bumping into people. If you think this isn't so you haven't looked at the issue objectively and are taken in by the car propaganda, the biggest advertising industry. To get a more realistic perspective look at death statistics especially for those who are not newborn infants or elderly (the majority of people). The facts are clear. Cars kill most people unless they live to be old enough to die of disease, or if they don't make it past infanthood. Maybe not in war-torn parts of the world but the 40000K/yr in the US isn't small. Compare that to American losses in Vietnam. And one can add that oil wars are not unrelated to car driving. Also the history of car technology is intertwined with the military in WW1 and WW2 (tanks) and the Cold War (Interstate system)
Stupidity is its own reward.