this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2024
231 points (92.0% liked)

Fuck Cars

9595 readers
43 users here now

A place to discuss problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all. Let's explore the bad world of Cars!

Rules

1. Be CivilYou may not agree on ideas, but please do not be needlessly rude or insulting to other people in this community.

2. No hate speechDon't discriminate or disparage people on the basis of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, or sexuality.

3. Don't harass peopleDon't follow people you disagree with into multiple threads or into PMs to insult, disparage, or otherwise attack them. And certainly don't doxx any non-public figures.

4. Stay on topicThis community is about cars, their externalities in society, car-dependency, and solutions to these.

5. No repostsDo not repost content that has already been posted in this community.

Moderator discretion will be used to judge reports with regard to the above rules.

Posting Guidelines

In the absence of a flair system on lemmy yet, let’s try to make it easier to scan through posts by type in here by using tags:

Recommended communities:

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13118199

(Title shamelessly stolen from this comment in the crossposted !micromobility thread.)

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] biddy@feddit.nl 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yes. Collisions are far less likely when the vehicles are smaller, and far less deadly when the vehicles are slower and less massive.

[–] ShadowRam@fedia.io -3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Collisions are far less likely when the vehicles are smaller Citation? Why would smaller mean less collisions?

far less deadly when the vehicles are slower and less massive = Correct

But both of your points have NOTHING to do with the topic "People shouldnt need to be neon colored"

They still require to be more visible to each other when travelling at E-bike speeds at night.

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 6 points 7 months ago

Why would smaller mean less collisions?

Easier to dodge. Less physical area to hit.

I'm not arguing that people shouldn't wear hi-viz, lights, ect. Of course they should. But we need to stop blaming cyclists when cars are the thing actually causing the harm. I'm trying to find a link to statistics on numbers of deadly crashes not involving a car, I recall seeing it somewhere and it was less than 1%.

[–] mp2@lemmy.ml -5 points 7 months ago