Who is behind the steering wheel?

[huskerdont]

The girl has always said Prius drivers are the effing worst, and I have usually protested. She’s looking at it from the perspective of a driver caught behind them, and I was looking at it from the cyclist side. However, recently as a passenger in her car and as a driver myself, I have come to believe that Prius drivers are … differently abled.

[creadinger]

@dkel 144438 wrote:

Around this region I always feel like negative interactions with drivers is a result of their general impatience and their ignorance of cyclists’ rights on the road. Put those two ingredients together and you always get honking, yelling, rude gestures, and unsafe passing. I’d like to think better driver education would go a long way to fixing this: if drivers understood that 1) time lost waiting to pass a bike safely is always easily made up in a car, and 2) bikes have a right to be in the street (and—more often than not—in the center of the lane), there would be no urge to get belligerent.

3) If we could only make it happen, but I think the bike a mile on my wheels principle would educate A LOT of clueless drivers as to what it feels like to be passed too closely.

………

Ok, they fall into the SUV category, but in my mind there are SUVs and those damned Armored Personnel Carrier (APCs) SUVs that so many suburbanites have to carry their platoons around in. Dude, if you had a reasonably sized car you wouldn’t need 2 full lanes to go around me safely!

[accordioneur]

Here’s what I’ve observed:

1. When I’m running, cyclists who pass me within inches and don’t call their passes (and there are lots of them) are the WORST.
2. When I’m cycling, runners and their crazy Ivaning and tendency to run N abreast are the WORST.
3. When I’m either running or cycling, drivers who don’t stop at trail intersections or pass too close are the WORST.
4. When I’m driving, cyclists who take the lane for no apparent reason are the WORST. And runners who run in the street ninja style are the WORST.
5. When I’m running, cycling or driving, anyone who is either considerably slower or faster than I am is the WORST.

What’s cool is that all of these observations can be combined into a single unified theory:

Everyone who is not me is the WORST.

[TwoWheelsDC]

You lost me at “experimental psychology.”

[rcannon100]

[consularrider]

@rcannon100 144518 wrote:

NEIN, bitte. [ATTACH=CONFIG]12289[/ATTACH]

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