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Motorist crosses centre line, hits 8 cyclists in Florida - Canadian Cycling Magazine
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Is this terrorism because cycling is considered progressive in the 2020's?
Possibly, or maybe she just fell asleep. Investigation appears to be ongoing.
Everyone should have to retest for their driving license every 5 years. I let mine lapse during COVID and had to retest, it wasn’t a pain, I learned some stuff I had forgotten, and moved on. It would filter out a large portion of the population who shouldn’t still be allowed to drive. It’s a skill that fades and rules change, especially over a persons lifetime
Nah, probably 10 years until ~70 years old, and make it a driving test. Written tests are largely a waste of time, because there's a huge difference between knowing something and actually doing that thing.
5 years under 60.
Then 63, 66, 68.
Then yearly after 70.
Certainly one way to promote improvements public transport in the US I suppose
Where I live a licence lasts 5 years. I have said we should to do a road test every time you renew. It already lasts two years when you first get it, then five thereafter. I say every time your renew you redo the written and road tests.
One of my grandparents got his license in the early 1940s and only stopped driving in 2019. People still had horses on the road in the early 1940s. For ages he didn't own a car and just drove his tractor everywhere. It was a different world.
I've driven in about 12 countries and 20 states in the US. Between the elderly who refuse to stop driving, the people driving on substances, and the general unfriendliness of the drivers in Florida - it is, by far, the worst place I've ever driven. I'm a cyclist as well and you couldn't pay me to ride there. It's dangerous enough to drive there, let alone cycle. *Mumbai would be another runner up to terrible places to ride.
For a lot of people including me not driving in not an option. Everything is a few miles away in between parking lots of other people living in the same dilemma.
This compounds as you're older and have to go places for doctor appts. Or groceries: nothing is walking distance and the cycle grows as people move farther away for cheaper land.
When I ride the bike people tell me to be careful but when they drive I can see them eyes on screen like if they're on their living room couch.
Old age health care needs to include rideshare allowances. Just my two cents for a short term solution until the US actually builds better public transit options. But I get where you're coming from. Keep looking for those eyes. It's the safest way to ride. And get a helmet cam and a rear cam. Be safe!
Thanks for the kind words, still saving for that sweet garmin varia with camera. A regular one for now is great for awareness.
Dude, why even bother with this comment. Ridiculous.
Because it was sarcasm.