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Second Hand Meat Mouth
Sep 12, 2001
tbf most of the times people jump out into traffic in my experience it's because of giant parked cars blocking them from view

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Tiggum
Oct 24, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:

lol what, pedestrians step out into the road from being visual barriers all the time
If you can't see due to barriers, you should slow down so that you don't accidentally hit anyone (or anything) that may be behind them. Or, to put it another way:

gradenko_2000 posted:

you're traveling too fast to react accordingly

Second Hand Meat Mouth
Sep 12, 2001

Tiggum posted:

If you can't see due to barriers, you should slow down so that you don't accidentally hit anyone (or anything) that may be behind them. Or, to put it another way:

do you always drive like 3mph then

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007
there would be no issues with going against the flow of traffic if the other drivers also drove the posted limit op

Second Hand Meat Mouth
Sep 12, 2001

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

there would be no issues with going against the flow of traffic if the other drivers also drove the posted limit op

they're voting with their speedometers and I'm a democratic centralist

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007
Another solution would be equipping cars with devices that limited their speed and acceleration to something safe

Second Hand Meat Mouth
Sep 12, 2001
we could require pedestrians to wear helmets, that'd reduce deaths I bet

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007

Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:

we could require pedestrians to wear helmets, that'd reduce deaths I bet

What does that have to do with cars

Second Hand Meat Mouth
Sep 12, 2001

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

What does that have to do with cars

I thought you wanted to reduce the frequency of car related fatalities

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
Half the traffic on this road is going north at seventy miles per hour and half of it is going south at sixty miles per hour so I, an enlightened centrist, will stop in the middle of the road.

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007

Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:

I thought you wanted to reduce the frequency of car related fatalities

I fail to see the connection

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007
Yeah people fall down and wearing helmets would stop that okay cool what does that have to do with cars?

Second Hand Meat Mouth
Sep 12, 2001

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

I fail to see the connection

do you not believe a pedestrian wearing a helmet would be more likely to survive a car impact compared to someone without a helmet

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007

Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:

do you not believe a pedestrian wearing a helmet would be more likely to survive a car impact compared to someone without a helmet

I would need to see the data

Second Hand Meat Mouth
Sep 12, 2001

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

I would need to see the data

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7975992/

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007
vehicle versus helmet

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007

uhhh source??

Precambrian Video Games
Aug 19, 2002



That Swedish airbag helmet but for the whole body, that would make me feel safer from cars:

Second Hand Meat Mouth
Sep 12, 2001
saving lives ftw

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007
an f-350's grill vaporizes my torso going around a corner at 40 mph, my head however is safe and secure in my pedestrian helmet

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

eXXon posted:

That Swedish airbag helmet but for the whole body, that would make me feel safer from cars:



getting hit by a car and turning into bibendum

spacemang_spliff
Nov 29, 2014

wide pickle

Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:

we could require pedestrians to wear helmets, that'd reduce deaths I bet

You should wear a helmet

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:

we could require pedestrians to wear helmets, that'd reduce deaths I bet

Heathcliff is a psyop to normalize pedestrian helmets.

The Maroon Hawk
May 10, 2008

I’ll poop on a car

Second Hand Meat Mouth
Sep 12, 2001

spacemang_spliff posted:

You should wear a helmet

nothing worth protecting inside my head, brother

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

The Maroon Hawk posted:

I’ll poop on a car

username post

Second Hand Meat Mouth
Sep 12, 2001
https://i.imgur.com/Fll9Cwk.mp4

Ringo Roadagain
Mar 27, 2010

Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:

video of a person being hit by a very slow moving train

please dont post videos of people being hit by vehicles, even if they survive.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
Meanwhile, on /r/bikecommuting…

quote:

Got new bumper stickers in the mail today



And I’m giving them away free to some very lucky car owners!

Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001



Lol

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012

Stereotype posted:

if you like biking around without having to worry about cars, you should go to burning man. black rock city is most cyclist friendly city i've ever been to.

Not gonna play WoW in 2023, thanks.

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007

spacemang_spliff
Nov 29, 2014

wide pickle

lmao

Mister Speaker
May 8, 2007

WE WILL CONTROL
ALL THAT YOU SEE
AND HEAR
In some places, 'helmet' is a slang term meaning 'a stupid or oafish person'.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003



truly amazing. what a country

Clark Nova
Jul 18, 2004

eXXon posted:

That Swedish airbag helmet but for the whole body, that would make me feel safer from cars:



there was a cctv video of one of these going off as the guy wearing it walked into a shop but it appears to have fallen off the internet.


e: how on earth do you not feel more insecure if you need a step ladder to perform basic maintenance on your trukk?

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
I saw a bumper sticker yesterday that read "No Airbags. Die like a real man"

Maed
Aug 23, 2006



don't doxx PFC plz

Mauser
Dec 16, 2003

How did I even get here, son?!
hold on i need to get out the crane and harness to change my windshield wiper blades

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Fitzy Fitz
May 14, 2005




The more subtle joke is that it doesn't even fit in his garage

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