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by rafram 580 days ago
People who bike for transportation, not just fun, sometimes need to bike at night, on less bike-friendly roads, or without high-visibility clothing. It doesn’t seem to me that the sentence for that should be death.
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> or without high-visibility clothing.

Please, try to get some high-visibility clothing. The difference in visibility is between hundreds of meters with high-visibility clothing and meters without.

> It doesn’t seem to me that the sentence for that should be death.

Maybe not death but severe injuries. Being visiblevin the night is a game changer.

At the very least wrap your bike frame in reflective tape ("DOT C2 tape" is what you want to punch into Amazon if you're in the US).
Not really an option for people who mainly ride bikeshare bikes (e.g. me). But those have pretty good lights, at least.