No it's not clearly "the cyclists fault", there's blame to share between the cyclist and the driver.

The cycle lane continued, as you can see by the continued bike markings on the road. Undertaking is bad for moving traffic, but for stationary traffic, the expectation is not that all under lanes stay stationary of this other lane is. The cycle lane was clear, and the car turned across a moving lane without looking properly.

If that had been two full sized car lanes with the outer one stationary, that driver would have absolutely been blamed is he got tboned by a car where the cyclist was.

The cyclist was distracted, which was his fault. The lane markings were exceptionally poor as well making it unclear that there was an extra lane there.

There's blame to go round and I'll with Jeremy on this, anyone who can't see what the driver did wrong had no business driving.

Anyway you're cherry picking a supposed crazy person on YouTube for the basis of a policy that would be very expensive, a barrier to entry for cycling at a time when for a variety of reasons outs a good idea to reduce car usageusage. And it's not even clear how precisely it would work for a significant number of users (kids). And it's of incredibly dubious use since bikes are much less dangerous than powered vehicles.

You have no statistics on what the case is now and what you expect to achieve with such a license.

Jeremy Vine deliberately crashes into cars and films himself doing it, then tries to blame the driver. He only stopped doing it when the police got involved.

I can find no record of this. But are you seriously claiming that an extreme example of someone doing something for clout on the internet is representative??

I hope your next rides are more peaceful and that drivers are considerate!

Thanks, that was not a good one but I've had worse.

I have noticed as both a driver and cyclist that a lot of drivers basically only watch the thing that is immediately in front of them. If it's a bike, they MUST get past because as everyone knows bikes are slow. And if it's a slow driver they MUST get past etc etc.

It's incredibly common for people to pull high stress, dangerous overtaking maneuvers only to slam right into a red light.

I like the auto speed limit warnings. On the wider roads designated as 20, where they haven't changed the design speed, I do find it a bit more high effort to maintain 20.

And I particularly enjoy seeing drivers zoom up at 30mph in a 20 zone and then sit behind me going beetroot while I tootle along at the legal limit. Small petty pleasures...

Richly satisfying. I make sure I never pull away too fast at the next set of traffic lights. Like wait an extra 2 seconds after green, then accelerate at the gentlest reasonable pace.

You're doing the thing where all faults and opinions observed by any cyclist are assigned collectively to the entire group.

Firstly, yes cyclists are vulnerable. A bike running a red light is much much less dangerous to other people than a car doing the same. Secondly, what cycling commnuity? there is no universal voice for cyclists in London. Most of us are utility cyclists, not MAMILs. We've got shit to do and places to go just like everyone else.

I rarely see the cycling community do any kind of self-examination--it's usually cries of "People need to watch out for us because we're so vulnerable!"

Yes they fucking do. I got into a yelling match with an arsehole in an SUV the other day. Why? Well I battered at his wing mirror with my hand and managed to bend it back so he didn't hit my handlebars and run me over. All I was doing was returning home from work down a segment of road designated as a cycle way.

What self examination would you like from me here?

I was going up a straight road at a constant speed, on my side of the road. Or perhaps you'd like the "community" to weigh in...

Actually they did. About 4 people came along and stated taking the piss out of the driver and filming his impotent rage.

The problem I have with cyclists is that they will sacrifice their safety for their momentum or convenience.

Oh good grief. Literally everyone does this. You do it every time you step into your car (125 deaths per day). No one can afford to prioritise safety above all else so it's asinine to assume that cyclists are uniquely stupid for making a tradeoff that everyone has to make.

And ya know, citation needed on that London story, frankly.

The American obsession with stop signs is utterly insane.

Anyway, have you tried giving it a go? A lot of American traffic engineering is not just bad, it's actively, mortally hostile to cyclists, so the only cyclists who preserver are the hyper dedicated nutcases. In other words your tiles have eliminated all but the most insane and desperate cyclists from the roads.

Anyway next time you're sick in a traffic jam, ruminating on just how awful cyclists are, remember that if you had a lot more of them you most likely wouldn't be struck in traffic.

The trouble with the last one is that drivers and the right wing press become completely incensed by the idea that they cannot drive exactly where they want, when they want via any possible route. And then they will spend years misreading statistics or outright lying in order to create that impression that it had somehow failed.

Watching this happen in London. Fortunately my local council were not foolish and have not just kept the measures but continued to improve them. Other people have not been so lucky.

Of course they divers go back to whining about too much traffic in the areas where they got their way and that someone should do something.

What's bizarre to me is the left picks them up too.

Like the by election in Uxbridge and ULEZ. Labor have won that once in the last 50 years and the progressive, pro ULEZ vote was the majority but split between green and labor. Somehow the right wing talking point that labor lost because ULEZ and ULEZ is unpopular has been adopted as a fact even by the Guardian. It's surreal.

It's not IDE: that's basically a replacement for old hard disks.

I don't think I've ever seen an IDE floppy dive, myself. Every one I used had the floppy drive interface.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

The IDE interface, like CF, PCMCIA is basically the ISA bus in a different form factor. I don't think I've even heard of an IDE floppy with the possible exception of super disk drives which could also use floppies.

I was thinking certification too, but are another poster pointed out outs global.

But for other things, well that train system is a one off. For anyone except senior management, moving top an emulator is all risk no reward. You won't have the resources to validate it and if it goes wrong you're probably looking at changing industry sectors for a fuckup of that magnitudemagnitude.

I hadn't even thought of it like that, good point.

Trouble is there are so many drivers who are raging morons.

I got into it with a driver the over day. I bashed on his wing mirror to bend it out of the way so he didn't clip my handlebars. He was that close, no 1.5m gap. Naturally he got out of his car to yell at me because the important thing was his car of course.

Turns out he "had" to because there was a kid on a bike coming towards him. In other words he tried to overtake when there was incoming traffic and instead of stopping and then pulling in behind, just tried to run me off the road instead. There was no possibility in his mind that he should not be moving forwards as fast as possible.

Bear in mind this is also a major marked cycle route as well.

Not really, I don't live in America anymore so I don't have to suffer stop signs.

Funny I was in London today and nearly got run over more than once by cyclists ignoring traffic lights.

I nearly got smooshed by a car on Wednesday. I smashed on his wing mirror with my hand to bend it out of the way so it didn't hit my handlebars. He then had the gall to get out of his car and start yelling at me for you know stopping myself getting hit by his giant SUV.

Drivers routinely break the law ALL the time. Every single day I see cars speeding, parked illegally blocking lines of sight, passing cyclists closer than 1.5m, not giving way to pedestrians at crossings, failing to give way to oncoming traffic when they need to cross the centerline, blowing through "no motor vehicle" signs, going through red lights, stopping in hatched areas and so on and so forth.

Every. Single. Day.

the idea that cyclists are a bunch of lycra clad scofflaws is turns out to just be right wing propaganda when it's actually studied.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/c...

I think some kind if licence for adults would be a good idea.

Frankly, that's a daft idea. The law should not be determined by random anecdotes.

Sure it's possible to injure someone on a bike, and it's certainly happened, but it's vastly easier to do it with a car. Thing is most cyclists are viscerally motivated to not hit anything since they're not protected by a metal box and will generally also get injured.

Cyclists are vastly less dangerous than cars.

this is especially true for SUVs, which really should be reserved to people with good driving skills

And somehow they seem to be universally reserved for people with the worst driving skills.

The American obsession with stop signs is just bizarre. No drivers really stop for them either. They are terrible for drivers, even worse for cyclists, awful for traffic and just on the whole a completely insane way of building traffic systems.

It's difficult to retrofit cities for cycling infrastructure and better road layouts.

The main difficulty is dealing with the gales of whining from drivers and the incessant hitjobs from the Daily Fail. And the Tory party.

London has in the space of a few short years drastically improved conditions for cyclists by putting in good infrastructure.