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by brailsafe 865 days ago
Seems to me like you're on some bizarre personal crusade against motorcyclists, and it seems like you feel like the roads belong to cars only, while people who use other means of transportation feel like the most common danger or nuisance on roads is... cars/trucks. People shouldn't feel like the only safe place to be is in a bigger car, but people do feel that way, because they're most likely going to be killed crashing into... another car or truck.

But maybe we should take a few lanes out from a majority of roads and dedicate them to anything but cars.

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I don't know where matheusmoreira usually drives, and I admit that from the comment's tone there may be some kind of prejudice against motorbike riders.

However, as a rider myself, I do tend to agree. If I had a penny for every stupid shit I've seen a rider do, I could buy all the highways in my country.

One short way I like to put it, is that they trust way too much the other people on the road (cars or bikes!) to not do something stupid at the exact moment they themselves do something stupid. Like cutting people off, riding 2 inches behind the vehicle in the front, overtaking some car waiting for pedestrians to cross – you name it they've done it.

As someone riding fairly defensively, I'm actually quite bitter about all this. Those idiots give us a bad rep and the powers that be are attempting to take our joy away with stupid regulations that won't actually improve anything.