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Man from Livramento
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In most countries where its legal, lane splitting is only legal if you’re moving at less than 30km/h driving through traffic which is moving slower than 30km/h. This is not Lanesplitting, this is reckless behavior.
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As a cyclist I only split if the cars are stopped, and even then I go slow jic someone randomly exits their vehicle
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Just yesterday a motorcycle “split lanes” between me and the curb, to edge in front of me while we were coming to a stop at a red light. Do it after we stop!! It’s so idiotic to change lanes as people are heading into a red, we are anticipating a stopping spot and you put yourself in between me and that spot. Might not be able to “brake harder” to avoid hitting them.
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Forgetting that on the road, smaller means less safety and more danger. He 100% earned that wreck and he’s lucky to be alive.
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Don’t worry. He’s a motorcycle rider. Learned nothing, will complain to his motorcycle buddies how car drivers never look out for the safety of bikers, then continue to break every law of the road and cause danger to everyone around.
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im in Buenos Aires and its just like that! Stupidity is a world wide pandemic
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I was expecting ‘I say kill them all’ after Beunos Aires Starship Troopers
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I used to ride when I was younger. I knew I could be splatted at a moment’s notice if I did anything stupid, or if someone else did. Reduced the chances by trying to be a decent rider and *still* had some close calls. Got knocked off more than once, at one point landing in a ditch and my bike missed landing on me by *inches*. A dumb rider is going to die to their own stupidity at some point. The problem with that is that other people get hurt and killed in the process.
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We’re not all like this. I very much detest this kind of riding and behaviour. I actually enjoy riding and I ride defensively instead of aggressively like this asshat. I want to live another day to ride, and realize the increased risk of riding a motorcycle. Ride to stay alive, not to show off.
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> We’re not all like this. Bikes attract a nontrivially disproportionate percentage of main characters who flout the rules of the road whenever it suits them. If you *aren’t* like this, you are the exception. Like I’m not going to get a cybertruck and then painfully explain to people “look, we’re not all Elon-shaped-cock-gagged right wing tinfoil hat wearing fascists, I’m perfectly normal.”
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You could spot the idiots from a distance. The ones who ride normally blend into traffic and you don’t really notice them.
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He definitely wears shit that says “Watch out for motorcycles!”
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It’s so common in Brazil that I don’t think people even care anymore. Just in my city we had four cases this year (that I know of) of people falling off moto-taxis and having their head run over by a bus or truck. Ever since Uber offered the moto-taxi option, the public healthcare system literally cannot handle the demand for orthopedic surgeries.
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Good luck, me! FTFY
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He just wanted a close up shot of that big green truck’s grill while it’s barreling down the road. Didn’t you see the video edit? He just really likes trucks
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Going way faster than traffic for splitting is a quick way to be in a lot of trouble, car also had it’s turn signal going. Motorcyclist was an idiot all the way.
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I just remember advice I got as a child about crossing the road: > Son, you can have the right of way clearer then the sun, but you ALWAYS look both ways and never cross if a car is visibly in motion. That tonne+ of moving metal is not going to respect your bodies “right of way” in the slightest. Same applies to bikes of every type. Thre are alot of “legally correct” crippled folk, and even more dead out there.
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I forgot where from reddit I heard it from, but the quote is “Always assume everyone around you is an idiot if you want to keep yourself safe”.
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It always confounds me when people say they can speed and don’t need to wear their seatbelt because they’re “a great driver”. They aren’t the only driver on the road, and if that doesn’t occur to them, they probably aren’t as good at driving as they think they are.
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No one thinks they’re a bad driver but the roads are absolutely saturated with bad drivers. I always think about that when evaluating my own driving skills.
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Those types of people also love to say they’ve never “crashed”. Because they blame all their accidents on other people, even if they were to blame.
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I mean I didn’t have an collision for 15 years of driving, and then I was rear ended while stopped at a red light. I can no longer claim to have never been in a collision. I can claim no at fault collisions, but even still I’m not preternaturally lucky.
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I rode bikes for most of my adult life. Even taught motorcycle safety at times. My advice: “Somewhere out there is an otherwise innocent-looking assassin seeking to take you out. Minimize the opportunities.”
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I quit riding on two wheels because phone use while driving is getting so bad. And if they’re not on their phone using the club my ass infotainment system in cars is horrible if not worse at times.
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“There are graveyards full of people who had the right of way.”
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In Zagreb, Croatia, they say the name of the most famous graveyard site, Mirogoj. Like: ” Mirogoj is full of people that had right of way.” I wonder if other countries use it
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May dad hammered this into my head growing up. Along with “always be looking the way your wheels are moving” and I’m doing my best to drill it into my kids heads too
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My dad used to say “you can be dead wrong, but you can also be dead right, and it ain’t worth it”
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“Being right isn’t worth being dead” is how I’ve always heard it.
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Its also just a matter of fact that drivers as a rule do not follow the laws of the road. You’re almost in more danger by taking the right of way, it gives you a false sense of safety.
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as a pedestrian who keeps their head on a swivel, drivers are fucking terrifying. The number of cars i see every day that turn their turn signal on as part of the action of turning the car is enough to keep me off the road for life.
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Laws of physics don’t respect the rules of the road
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At least he was wearing his safety jeans and invisible gloves.
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I don’t get people that don’t at least wear fucking gloves. I’ve had a rock or two hit my hands picked up from cars right into my gloved knuckles that have armor right there and I thought it broke my hand, i cannot imagine no gloves at all, or any protective gear. I bet he wasn’t wearing a helmet either or a fake one.
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What would the gopro have been mounted on?
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And a lot of eastern European countries, India, China, etc. they sell those fake helmets, which are the thinness piece of plastic with a thinthinner piece of foam. They wouldn’t save your head from any kind of fall.
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Is there really any doubt this is entirely the motorcycle drivers fault?? Cutting in-between traffic like that, Zero drivers are expecting it. Thats in my opinion entirely the motorcycle drivers fault. That shouldn’t even be legal. 100% the car turning checked behind them, saw parked cars, then 5 seconds later some random motorcycle cutting in-between appears. Like fuck that.
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> Is there really any doubt this is entirely the motorcycle drivers fault? There are many on this site that will definitely defend the motorcyclist. Obviously it will also vary by countries you add in with their lane splitting and how reckless they can be. Or see themselves as less reckless. In our world based in trying not to die, you’re right. Think Colorado (US state) has allowed some lane splitting (?, or the other name) but basically says all accidents are on the motorcyclist in a situation like this. Because expecting people to see a speeding idiot in between a bunch of other vehicles is stupid. I prefer something more along the lines of allowing shoulder splitting, like you can ride on that as a motorcyclist if you’re willing to risk riding over all the garbage over there to get ahead.
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This. Sometimes drivers are assholes and turn without signaling or looking. Not this case.
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I don’t think lane splitting should be a thing, period. It’s dangerous and the only upside is one person gets to skip the line…
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As a motorcyclist I’m not a fan of lane splitting, but I am a huge fan of lane filtering (traffic stopped, you’re going less than 10mph passed stopped cars).
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That seems reasonable to me. When traffic is stopped or near stopped, a motorcycle carefully pulling through it a few mph faster isn’t an issue. Doing 50mph through cars moving 25mph is just asking for an issue.
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Also equally insane is the audacity to post your crime online presumably for sympathy.
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Lane filtering/lane splitting isn’t illegal everywhere. Think outside of your country or state too. That being said, the person in this video is still a dumbass and very lucky.
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Still in places where it isn’t explicitly forbidden (the Netherlands as an example where I’m based), such a speed difference while lanesplitting would be considered dangerous driving and likely a judge would deem the biker responsible for at least 50%, probably more.
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I’m based in germany and pretty much the same here… I think xD. Like I said dude in the video is stupid. I just got my motorcycle license a week ago and definitly see myself lane filtering when I’m a more experienced rider but only in slow Situation like a traffic jam or light.
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Not only reasonable, actually safer in a lot of cases as ever year a number of motorcyclists die from being rear ended in stop and go traffic from car drivers not really seeing them / paying attention
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I cycle and while it’s very rare there are times traffic is backed up bad and I’m still on the shoulder just scooting past everyone. However I make sure to go pretty slow as you don’t know when someone is gunna try to cut around on the shoulder. Whether it’s motorcycles or bicycles cars and trucks always win. Legalities don’t give me armor haha
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