Im-a-Ridah World Chat Champion
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Posted: 20:52 - 05 Aug 2021 Post subject: |
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Easy-X wrote: |
Aha! So you're saying "screw the cagers, I'm alright" fair enough And you may be correct, bikes will (hopefully) continue to be overlooked much the same as them phasing in zero emissions cars and vans in the 2030's but with the government going as far as saying "we've not thought about bikes, we might get back to you later" no rush! Actually, if one wants to be very optimistic about 2 wheeled life...
Imagine all the cars have speed "assistants" (let's not call them limiters) and black-box dataloggers as mandatory equipment on all new cars. Everyone's driving nice and safe like good little minions. What will happen?
No more speed camera revenue! A chunk of that revenue goes to maintaining the cameras or keeping the goon in the speed check van topped up with Fanta & Wotsits. No revenue = no cameras.
And the rest as they say writes itself |
Cagers are the ones who infringe on the rights of others by killing them. I would prefer that bikers didn't die, but I also don't have the right to impose my wishes on their individual choice.
Slightly related but the newest and most serious danger seems to be the e-scotters. Usually some 14 year old with a passenger talking to their friend on another a scooter at 20mph zipping across lanes and junctions straight through the path of cars, no helmet. Given the sucidal quality of riding skill they have I can only image what the death stats for them are. |
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Easy-X Super Spammer
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