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by arghnoname 621 days ago
My daily driver is a 2300 pound miata with a stock exhaust. It's small and low to the ground and only has 181 HP. I think this is the lightest production car you can get--certainly close.

I see people in Cybertrucks and some other electric trucks--they don't have local pollution, but between the weight and the height, I'm living pretty dangerously. You always notice the big cars in the miata, but the big, heavy electrics is when I started feeling about as protected as a cyclist in it.

Still, I don't think they're creepy assholes who want to murder me or have emotional issues or whatever. I think they just like their big dumb truck, just like I like my ridiculous small car. I don't have to drive this car, it's impractical, it's dangerous, if someone kills me that'll probably ruin their day, but I do it because I like it. I'm not psychologically deranged with a death wish. Sometimes people just like different things.

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> Still, I don't think they're creepy assholes who want to murder me or have emotional issues or whatever.

I can infer that you do not ride a bicycle very frequently. Once you do, you quickly learn which kind of vehicles act most aggressively around you.

I road one three days a week for my commute for about six months, but it was only about two miles. I went out of my way to be on roads with an ample bike lane.

More than drivers being aggressive towards me (helps I wasn't slowing them down, which I know can make some people aggro), I noticed that I was invisible to many drivers and had to be very cognizant of that in turning lanes and when needing to be out of the bike lean due to construction, etc.