Gotta say I’m pleasantly surprised by the vibe in here, it’s a lot more true to the stated purpose than its r*ddit namesake which seems to be just an aggressive, literal take on the name.
I enjoy driving and love tinkering with cars and bikes. I don’t enjoy effectively being forced to use them for mundane commuting.
I agree entirely with you here. All these nutjobs like ndrew tte who think we’re coming for their hobby cars are missing the point. I couldn’t care less if you like to drive cars or not. Heck, I would probably by myself lots of cool cars if I had tons of money. People don’t commute by car because they like driving, they commute by car because it’s the easiest mode of transport in their area. And a lot of cities would benefit immensely if that mode was instead changed to a combination of walking, biking, and tramming or similar.
Where I live having a driver’s license means it’s easier to vote. Sure it’s possible to vote without one, but I have to show a Photo ID and prove my address, and a driver’s license is the only form of ID with both a photo and address on it.
Assuming you’re in the US, most states also offer ID cards that can be used for all the same things a driver’s license are for, except for driving. Confusingly they’re usually handled through the DMV, since they have all the infrastructure to verify your identity and issue cards.
Can confirm. I don’t drive. Don’t habe a driver license. I still habe a card that look a lot like one, has an ID number, and is used exactly the same for everything except driving.
they’re much more dangerous in large part due to cars, i mean yea hitting a rock and flying off your bike at 70 mph isn’t very safe, but motorcycling would be a lot less deadly without cars
You’re not alone in not caring. Consider how many people will rail against motorcycles, but ignore worse activities. Horse riding is about 25x as dangerous as riding a motorcycle. How many folks do you see who are willing to tell a random person they see on a horse how dangerous the activity is? Yet I get random dipsticks who feel they’re doing the lord’s work when they come up to me on my bike and tell me what they think of the dangers of motorcycles.
Maybe it’s rather inconsiderate approaching people like this, but I think it’s implying danger for the others too, not just yourself. I personally don’t see a lot of people riding horses in dense traffic.
I agree that is probably part of the perception, but I wonder what sort of rates motorcyclists are at fault in any sort of traffic injury? Motorcycles are also often too loud too, horses are quaint and cute.
i would assume motorcyles are much less prone to causing accidents. Given that the rider has to be significantly more vigilant, if they don’t want their legs amputated.
I’m guessing the likelihood of them getting into accidents is much higher, or at the very least, the rate of injury resulting from crashes.
I’m not entirely sure that horse riding is more dangerous, I’m not that experienced with motorbikes, but I ride horses all the time, I reckon you might fall from a horse more often, but it’s usually a fairly simple thing, not going too fast or anything. Unless you’re talking about horse racing which is quite dangerous, but most riders do other, much safer thing on horseback.
That said, I live in rural Ireland where from what I understand, the roads are significantly more dangerous for motorbikes do that might be skewing my perspective.
Though random fools telling you that what you’re doing is dangerous are, to me, overstepping. As long as you’re not putting others in excess danger you should be left alone.
I think it’s fair to say that horse’s have a wider range of personalities or temperaments than motorbikes do. A bike won’t throw you off if you’re doing everything properly. A horse on the other hand can just not be arsed carrying you anymore or get spooked by something passing by.
All that said I don’t think it would be easy to build a credible frame of comparison between the the two forms of transport. I wouldn’t be surprised if either could be ‘proven’ to be more dangerous given the amount of thin air that the frame of reference would be resting on.
You are not accounting for all the assholes around you in the traffic. All it takes is either some light road rage or just glancing away from the road for a few seconds, and then you go flying.
I would never bother you about it but horses don’t wake me and my family up at 1 am, and a horse didn’t come out of nowhere yesterday (while it was dark) and cut me off almost causing an accident. So I imagine you can see why there is a bit of hostility.
But hey they are fun to ride and fuel efficient. My inlaws run their whole farming operation with motorcycles and an overworked tractor. Maybe people would like them more if we went after modifications that make them too loud.
I have now no other option but to drive because my country is phasing out one if not the most used public transportation vehicles here in the Philippines :(
Fun fact: Robert Moses, the man who almost single-handedly fucked New York City beyond repair by building bridges and parkways while actively working against public transportation options like trains, buses and subways beginning in the 1930s, never learned to drive himself.
Robert Moses really deserves to be the patron demon of this sub.
I live on a street that’s a well-known rat-run through the neighborhood. I like to park a vehicle 24/7 on the street to narrow it, and slow drivers down.
The street I used to live in Rio had cars parked, some of them abandoned, at both sides of the sidewalk, forcing everyone to walk on the streets. Because of that, the street was an infacto mixed use street, never reccomended by navigation maps. A quiet street thanks to the parked cars.
I decided to only work at overseas startups so there’s no chance of a “oopsie we retracted WFH”. I’ll be selling my car this year, I already have the electric bike to replace it.
I found my job on Reddit somehow, but there are plenty of overseas jobs on LinkedIn and the other major job exchanges. I work in a customer facing role so I look for jobs that need someone to handle customers in X timezones. For example, my company is based in Berlin but they wanted someone to manage the US customers.
NGL the timezone stuff is HARD at first. I am six hours behind almost all of my coworkers so I sometimes get completely excluded from discussions and meetings. I occasionally have to wake up early for things (4am product launch…) and there isn’t the technical help available after noon my time, so I have had to develop my own troubleshooting and coding skills. And of course it can get lonely when there’s no one else about.
But they fly me out to HQ every year and also offsites in Rome, Spain, and Portugal. So it’s an alright tradeoff.
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