Huffy vs. Hummer: Debate Bikes -vs- cars
This is Bicycle.net’s take on the LA Times series I mentioned in the first post about the woman’s sentence. You can link to the Times series from here too. I’ve been sitting on this because it is pretty long but Steve’s contribution makes it relevant. We can’t see this as a war. We’ll lose it. –Corrie
Huffy vs. Hummer: Debate Bikes -vs- cars
By VeloGuy on January 7th, 2008 | ShareThis
I read this article on the LA Times website and thought that it is a good article to spur some debate. Who is right, the cyclists, or the car drivers? I do not have the answer that will make both sides happy. But what I do know is that there is no answer that both the bike riders and the car drivers will ever agree on. As a cyclist who has had too many close calls to remember, I do think that car drivers have to (no, must) be held to a very high standard due to the shear weight difference between our vehicles. If I hit a car with my bike I am certain that I will not kill the auto driver, but the car driver has a much higher chance of killing the cyclists. People riding bikes will never go away, and drivers need to be put on alert. The penalties for not sharing the road should be more severe than they are currently. We need to adopt the same attitude you would find in, lets say Italy, where they expect to see a cyclist around the corner.