Cyclists Break Far Fewer Road Rules Than Motorists, Finds New Video Study
Cyclists Break Far Fewer Road Rules Than Motorists, Finds New Video Study
Busting the myth of the "scofflaw cyclist" Danish Road Directorate studies reveal that while 66% of motorists routinely break road traffic laws only 5% of cyclists do so. Law breaking by cyclists is higher where there is no cycle-specific infrastructure.
Some interesting stuff here, including links to more studies showing similar results in different countries.
The summary is that the reason motorists break more laws is that speeding is so common.
I don't think this is because motorists are all evil and cyclists are all saints. Probably, the reason motorists break speed limits is that it can be relatively difficult to keep cars below the speed limit. It's all too easy to absentmindedly speed up. It's also, perhaps becuase of this, widely seen as socially acceptable to break the speed limit (speaking anecdotally).
One interesting thing here, which may not surprise regular readers of Fuck Cars, is that better cycling infrastructure leads to less lawbreaking by cyclists. As is often the case, it's the design of roads and cities that changes behaviour, not abstract appeals to road users to be sensible!
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bikers need a driving license
edit: kinda offtopic, but cyclists are as annoying
Over here in germany you can lose your drivers license if you violate traffic laws while riding your bike and that is probably sufficient.
Same for cyclists in the UK op comment would only work if we all carried citizen cards, they think licenses are the only way to identify people committing offences.
also i hate bikers with modded akrapovic exhausts, thats just stupid (straight piped bikes also)..the whole brand and concept is stupid
This is about bicycles, not motorbikes.
That guy is an idiot
exactly that was my point. some bikers dont handle their bikes as cars, they just keep slipping between lanes and hitting pedestrations covered by blind angles. that needs to stop
No one disagrees that rule breakers need to stop. But licensing doesn't look like it'd help, considering drivers are licensed and break more rules than cyclists.
bikers aren't fined enough. once there are enough cameras to spot their illegal driving and get issued fines that would help lower bike accidents. driving's license and fines are barriers to discourage wreckless behaviour
Dude cameras don't even get a fraction of the cars breaking driving laws, why do you hate people who prefer to bike so much?
considering drivers are licensed and break more rules than cyclists.
says who ?
Are you posting on this without even being remotely aware of what the article says?
i know i am talking about bikes,which are motorists, not cyclists..but as long as cyclists share the road with motorists, they could also use a driving license, and so e-bikers do and so forth..until there are enough cyclist lanes
It's clear you're just posting on this site to troll since you weren't even aware of the basic concept of the post. I don't need to reply to trolls.
didnt pay enough attention to article ngl, but cyclists are as annoying (if they dont have cyclist lanes) and u were right
It's the damn headline. You literally didn't read anything. You clicked on a fuck_cars post and just made a comment based on nothing in the post at all. That's literally trolling. You made a random comment purely to get a rise out of people.
i wrote a comment, no one was supposed to reply to it, including u, could have downvoted and moved along..also u could have stated to me that it was about cyclists, not bikers..also not all countries have cyclist lanes, including where i live, and that makes them passively irritating
I wrote a comment, no one was supposed to reply to it
"I expressed an opinion on a public forum, nobody was supposed to read and interact with it."
I find distracted drivers annoying. Also the 10s of thousands of people vehicles kill every year annoying. The cars that drift into my bike lane and nearly kill me are annoying. Your stupid comment is annoying. Just fucking deal with your pathetic annoyance and let's focus on the ones that actually harm people.
I find distracted drivers annoying.
This. Almost got hit by one the other night who swerved away at the last second (no sidewalk for me to bail to sadly). Having bright lights, wearing reflective clothing and riding cautiously can't save you from drivers not paying attention
So, your comments here are kind of confusing. If I understand you right, you're making a distinction between motorbikes (which as the name suggests have a motor) and pushbikes (AKA bicycles - the kind of thing you pedal). This study is about bicycles, not motorbikes.
As to licences, most jurisdictions do require motorcyclists to have a licence, either a full driving licence or a specialist motorbike licence (sometimes both).
Cyclists do not require a licence. While of course they do have the capacity to be 'annoying' (because they're human beings), bicycles are both much simpler to pilot and much safer than either motorbikes or cars. In other words, while cyclists are annoying, motorists are dangerous. There's a qualitative difference.
insurance won't be happy to hear that a cyclist has broken ur expensive audi side mirror, just because he decided to stroll between cars waiting at traffic
if cyclists dont have dedicated lanes somewhere, they need to have a license of some sort, 'specialist' cyclist, driving bicycle license, anything, to keep traffic in order
@zoe @frankPodmore Driving licences and traffic lights were invented because car drivers were too dangerous to safely mix with existing road traffic and we needed to restrain them. Bicycles have never been a significant danger to other road traffic. We don't require licences for people to ride bicycles for the same reason we don't require licences for pedestrians, it's a ridiculous idea that would do nothing useful.
I don't think you've really engaged with this post properly at all.
Cyclists don't need a licence 'to keep traffic in order', because it isn't cyclists that cause the problems.
A common argument raised around here, is how will kids cycle to school if licenses are needed? Their parents are likely to drive them instead, creating more traffic, and the kids lose out on that exercise and freedom of mobility.
If their parents can't drive them or afford to own a car it's tough luck, that kid loses out on an education 🤷♂️
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I didn't get to read your response before the edit ☹️
Possible to repost it pls?
Lemme just check my state road rules.
Hmmmm... Now this is interesting!
It says right here in Article VI, Section 3, Paragraph 14 that you have no idea what you're talking about. Amazing!
bikers need a driving license
driv·er's li·cense
noun
a document permitting a person to drive a motor vehicle.