| > If you actually cared about safety you’d require airbags, crumple zones, licensing, insurance, and crash testing for cyclists. I've crashed on a bicycle, more than once. I've crashed even on a motorcycle (on a racetrack). The damage that is caused to myself, to my machine, and the surrounds, is tiny compared to the damage that is caused by an automobile with (at least) an order of magnitude more mass: a friend of mine had a car go through the front of his house, and the physical carnage was impressive (no person was injured thankfully). And every time licensing has been looked at for cyclists, it has found to be a dumb idea: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj47qJ-UUno > You’re better off building parallel infrastructure and taxing cyclists to pay for it via licensing. Cars cause much more damage to roads than bicyclists, and they should pay proportionally: * https://www.investopedia.com/gas-taxes-and-what-you-need-to-... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law And bicyclists already pay for local roads through local property taxes: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjv8WQu92c0 The problem is that roads are now practically monopolized for private vehicle use to the exclusion of everyone else, and the costs are not fully paid for by drivers. Higher density areas subsidize lower density ones, and road infrastructure is a big part of that: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI |