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[-] ashok36@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

The only thing I wish is that we had more accessible and safe single-seat vehicles. I bring 3 empty seats with me to work every day. I would be more than happy to have a cheap, efficient single seat vehicle for commuting if it was safe. I'm not going to ride a motorcycle 25 miles each way every day in the Florida heat and rain. I'm certainly not going to share the road with the maniacs we have here on a motorcycle.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm certainly not going to share the road with the maniacs we have here on a motorcycle.

In other words, it isn't that biking or motorcycling or walking or whatever isn't safe, it's that the presence of cars makes everything unsafe (including the cars themselves).

Similarly, bike lanes etc. are car infrastructure, not bike infrastructure, because in the absence of cars cyclists would have no problems using the normal lanes. (Remember that the next time some dipshit complains about spending on bike lanes or cyclists not paying their "fair share.")

Pretty much every argument drivers have against other transportation modes is rooted in projection.

[-] outdated_belated@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Smart Cars and the like are closer to this, but roads and parking spaces aren’t really designed to take advantage of their comparatively smaller size (eg you can’t drive them side by side down the road).

To be fair, Europe is sort of like this given how small their roads are

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