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By *ombikerMan 8 weeks ago
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I see a lot of distracted or careless driving and people not checking mirrors etc.
Especially electric cars.
It makes me think does all the driver aids like adaptive cruse control and the mirror that lights up if someone is beside you in a blind spot and even automatic gearbox contributes to this as some people are relying on their car to make decisions for them. Or they use the driver aid to take the place of them paying attention to the road while they look at Facebook or whatever is the latest social media thing, who knows maybe even fab. |
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The roads are definitely more aggressive nowadays, especially on main roads. I’d say there isn’t enough awareness on how motorbikes ride but I’ve witnessed enough bikers doing dumb stuff that I don’t even know how some people get their licences anymore.
(I ride a ZZR600, just to clarify i’m not a motorcycle hater) |
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By (user no longer on site) OP 8 weeks ago
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Yeah I sometimes think about giving it up all together cause I never feel safe even around other bikers. As a car driver too I've had some near misses with bikes chancing their arm overtaking |
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I would never have labelled myself as a bad or careless driver in my car, but since I have had my bike licence, I find I concentrate far more in the car also, I do agree, that all the modern, so called, safety systems on newer cars, do tend to make drivers less interested in there surroundings, and therefore less concentration is the outcome??  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP 8 weeks ago
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Yeah I'm beginning to think that's the case too there's so many gadgets in a car now that they have become more of a hindrance than a help. It's easy for people to become distracted and plus phones play a big part in that too |
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By *959femxCouple 8 weeks ago
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All the morons who have to drive at 90 miles an hour to get to Tesco for a loaf of bead and a bottle of milk and think driving like an idiot will save them 30 seconds in in their busy day . |
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Just returned to biking, bought a VFR800. I have found the roads are far more aggressive now, then they have ever been. Too many idiots, thinking the rules don't apply to them.
Saying that, there is a lot less respect in general, then there has ever been. |
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"Just returned to biking, bought a VFR800. I have found the roads are far more aggressive now, then they have ever been. Too many idiots, thinking the rules don't apply to them.
Saying that, there is a lot less respect in general, then there has ever been."
Absolutely love VFR’s!
I think it’s more lack of awareness. If you ask me everyone doing their car test should also take a CBT as part of it. To gain at least a tiny idea of what it’s like to be on 2 wheels |
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"Just returned to biking, bought a VFR800. I have found the roads are far more aggressive now, then they have ever been. Too many idiots, thinking the rules don't apply to them.
Saying that, there is a lot less respect in general, then there has ever been.
Absolutely love VFR’s!
I think it’s more lack of awareness. If you ask me everyone doing their car test should also take a CBT as part of it. To gain at least a tiny idea of what it’s like to be on 2 wheels"
I have always said that drivers must do a couple of years on a bike, before getting in a car. |
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