We all know that to have a solid opinion requires knowing life on both sides. I'm scared for you all as I drive my pickup truck. Don't you think for a minute, as you sit in your Subaru, or Lincoln Towncar, that you are much more safe than the bicyclist. My truck is heavy and if I just as little as become complacent with the radio, heater, ect... then the most horrific life changing, or ending experience may happen to you.
Does this sound threatening? Well, it's the reality of the American roadway and we are all just as responsible for the wicked horror our multi-thousand pound vehicles can cause. "It's not the car that kills the pedestrian, or bicyclist, it's the car operator". The responsibility we carelessly take when we turn over the engine and put into gear is insane. The outcome for this decision is one we take as trivial, inconsequential, and totally un-concerning. If we can't stop our car while going thirty miles per hour on a wet road at night and down hill then to hell with anyone who dares get in the way. This might as well be our view because we are willing to take the chance.
Four-thousand-five-hundred troops died in Iraq over the course of THAT war, but we loose over forty-thousand to car related fatalities annually and don't pay notice. The car has lead the American to become unsightly as only a person lacking adequate exercise and self respect can become. Even the stanchest motor-head can be creamed while walking across the street. The car is mean, or at least, it's operators can become this.
The reason the folks who opened this comment did so is because they are strapped into their cage and can't look about as the bicyclist can. The motorist can be co-dependent of things just going okay, but the truth is, we can't see worth a darn and especially when the glass is wet at night. Luck and chance get us home without killing.
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