Is this meant to scare people off using motorcyles

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Got from the MCN site, there's this video from TfL.

Having seen it once I think it'd put people off from commuting on 2 wheels.
Apparently that wasn't the aim, just make people think about safety.

Anyone any views?


P.S. Video is in flash. Tried playing this in firefox and failed. So if anyone has problems try it in IE.
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[Lawnie]

I chose maybe. While for me it doesn't change anything, I would imagine that it might affect others. I think most of us have been guilty at jumping into 'automatic' mode on the way to and from work sometimes - I think the aim of this video is to wake people up.

p.s. it didn't work in Firefox for me either, but does in IE.

[the grim reaper]

I don't think so, I think people need a reminder every now and again, especially as they're right about people getting complacent near their homes.

I used to work in a market garden and, one day, we were taking the lorry through the country lanes to another field. Some bloke drove out of his driveway about five feet infront of the lorry and ended up on his side in the hedge. When the Police asked him why he pulled out, he said, 'Oh I always come straight out there, there's never anyone coming'. Tw@t.

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[GearboxGeezer]

Ridiculous, MCN are total shit stirrers.

Scare people of motorbikes... The fact is THIS CAN HAPPEN and you MIGHT DIE if you ride a motorbike. I think that if this advert changed your oppinion on riding a bike then you wouldnt of lasted long on a bike... As you probably had a mind set of a mental patient... everything is a dream world where you can crash at 200mph into a car and you just bounce off and pick your bike up and ride off again laughing whilst the sun is winking at you in the sky.. Oh and birds are sitting on your shoulders.

[jonboy22]

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Rather than scare off existing motorcyclists (who by definition already appreciate their are risks) would it scare off new riders wanting to start riding/commute by motorcycle/scooter?
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[Dark]

Nope, doesn't scare me at all, and also shouldn't you always ride an open door width away from parked vehicles?
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[phk6]

wow thats realy scary, any one who even steps on a bike should know wot their about to let them selfs in for, the guy in the ad obviously handt listened in his bike lessons or on his cbt as he was riding far to close to the car doors mabe if he'd of listend he would of left enough room for doors to open unexpectidly?
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[_Will_]

While it dosent scare me, i think bikers to be may get the jitters from it, i find the narration and suggestion bit morbid.
.....................Ewan mcgreggor as voiceover .
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[sv_cath]

Forgive me if I'm totally missing the point here - but wouldn't it be better to do an ad for car drivers / passengers to say look before you open a door? If there had been a bus coming it would have taken the door off!!!

[bazza]

[extreme3d]

It's clever as although we think it's aimed at us and in a way it is, it's shocking to EVERYONE including car drivers. So they will also remember and perhaps also think bike.

But that's not the aim. It's an advert about complacency near home not really 'think bike'. Using a bike to portray the message makes it much easier to show a harsher result to complacency than just a car driving into a wall and the airbag going off.

The problem with doing it from a car's prospective is that people just switch off watching it. But from a bike's prospective, especially as like this one showing the total lack of control you have as to where your body goes, it grabs everyone's attention making them cringe, biker or not.

[mikeoldcars]

Im surprised Euan McGregor did the voice over, if the shock factor of the advert makes cage drivers more aware of the dangers that throwing open a door can cause then it can only be good.

The only people i know who have lost a limb both lost them from bike accidents, it didnt put me off learning to ride a bike, what does put me off riding like a tw@t is wanting to see my wife and kids when i get home.

I think this advert is more aimed at car drivers as we know the risks that we face everyday which is why we do what we can to minimise them.

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[dainesefreak]

Personally speaking and not trying to interpret the ad from any other angle than my own, I'm afraid I fall into the don't care category. I accept the risks of what I do and I try to live for each day. I try to take things as they come, I can't live trying to justify the way I live/ride to anyone other than myself. I know that I want to return home to see my wife and child again and that's enough for me. I don't need to be reminded of it by adverts telling me I'll die on a bike, I have already accepted that and do my best to avoid it.

If it works for others fair enough, for me I'll ignore it as another badly thought out scare mongering ad and keep on keeping.

[Huambo81a]

i think we are all aware of the risks involved in riding a motorbike, especially on the clogged up roads of today. Yes we are 'aware' of them, but do we ever actually believe its going to happen to us, probably not eh?

There must have been an issue relating to this sort of accident for them to commission an advert to counter it.

I`m sensing scorn towards these adverts, almost an attitude of 'wow i`m insulted, i knew that' But look at the big picture, there are people out there that ride exactly like Gearboxgeezer suggested, and if this advert saves 1 persons life its worth it.

let them keep advertising this stuff, there will always be those who 'don`t care' and look after themselves properly on the roads, but then again there will always be new riders who ride like knobs and paralyse themselves before their 18th birthday, if it reaches 0.01% of us then its worked.
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[Huambo81a]

[dainesefreak]

I wasn't trying to turn this into some personal heroic sob story but I believe there are quite a few people in the same position. I do believe in educating the masses but I think that these adverts are aimed at the wrong audience.

We do ourselves no favours, but I honestly believe the biggest killers on our roads are bad drivers. Driver education should run all the way through the learning phase and tests, rather than the occasional couple of questions about other vehicles randomly added to a useless theory test.

I have actually kept my first helmet that was smashed in an accident, along with a hole in my shin. I kept it as a reminder to my mortality at a time when I thought I was invincible. It also looks cool.

[Huambo81a]

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[_Will_]

I think the bike test should be part of the car test, an all in one thing that would sort em out
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[JonT]

Is it just me or was that rider not going too quickly when he "evaded" the door but suddenly was going atleast 15mph faster when the camera switched to the "sliding down the road" frame.

[Heckthusula]

Always assume that car door's going to open, always assume there's a pedestrian behind everything blocking your view, always assume the U-turn, right turn or the crazy fool on the sportsbike filtering at 50Mph when you go to filter yourself.

Well, works for London, anyway.

[GearboxGeezer]

[southlondoner]

Wouldn't put off an existing biker I don't think. However it would make me think twice if I was new to it all and I saw that..
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