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[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago

Anybody have experience adding a dashcam to their bike? I wonder if documenting these cases could help start change

[-] SoGrumpy@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago

Go on 'The Youtube', there are thousands of videos of bicyclists with dash cams in hairy situations.

[-] marzhall@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

There's an app for that - it's called, succinctly, "dashcam for your bike". They sell clip-on phone holders for your bike and do some image stabilization in the video they record, and have integration so you can report people/items blocking the bike lane to the local infrastructure. Would recommend.

[-] Marx2k@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

I can only imagine the invisible typewriter used by my city when a report comes in like that.

Forwarded directly to the "we'll get right on that" department

[-] marzhall@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Heh, full disclosure: I was in a startup program with the dude who makes it so I'm def biased, but in Pittsburgh they put bollards on a road to establish separation for the bike lane with credit to the reports from the app giving them historical tracking on how prevalent it was. So yeah, reports may not send out someone posthaste, but they can improve the situation for sure.

[-] Marx2k@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

That works. Also, having the bike lane on an elevated level above car traffic works well.

[-] oo1@lemmings.world 12 points 1 week ago

The BMW comes with the special edition highway code has that extra rule at the end.

I didn't think it was true until I was a passenger in one and the driver - whom I previously thought to be a semi-sane human - missed the motorway junction that we wanted; this is no problem at all for BMW, it has hazards and a reversing gear . . . genius!

[-] ashughes@feddit.uk 9 points 1 week ago

That ad at though at the end. 🤏

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[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Sounds about right. I had a similar encounter with a commercial minivan driver on a 30 kph backstreet in Toronto.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

Why did you have his toddler in the back seat??

Just last week I was almost run over by a silver honda civic while trying to use the crosswalk, said civic driver proceeded to honk and and yell at me for being in the way. Somehow, that's the second time I've almost been almost run over and then honked at by someone in a silver honda civic.

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

The Dutch have the best traffic rules and laws giving the advantages to the bicyclists. Driving in and out of traffic circle is a neck breaking experience.

[-] fl42v@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah, some drivers seem to DGAG about the rules. Like I'm cycling straight and you're turning, asshole, honk whatever you want. [Note: applicable to Russia, your experiences may vary]

[-] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

nta, the biker was going too slowly unless they were on a step hill, bikes only deserve respect when they are going at least 35 kmh

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