• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    2 months ago

    I wish the cycling proficiency test was a legal requirement to ride a bicycle.

    There are so many people who drive dangerously and use bad cyclists as an excuse. You know the ones who decide that traffic lights don’t apply to them, and the ones that ride on the pavement at 20 mph and knock over little old ladies.

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      2 months ago

      I get the feeling that in the past, the effort required to cycle self-selected people a bit.
      Now with cheap assisted bikes, it’s easier than ever to become a 100KG object travelling at 20mph.
      So maybe it should have more requirements, in a “greater good” kinda way.

      Kinda like when drones took off (heh). The rules for how to use model aircraft needed refining, because the barrier to flying a 2KG object near an airport became much lower.