Originally Posted by
phoebeisis
The same texting driver can cross the line and hit you head on while you are driving your car.
You gonna quit driving?
AIRBAGs
Not to mention seat belts, crush zones and yes multiple airbags... cars have gotten safer... drivers walk away from collisions that would have killed 20 years ago. But while cars have become safer, drivers have not changed... and we get new unskilled drivers daily; drivers that are not only unskilled, but easily distracted.
Cycling safety has not improved... but automobile speeds have gone up, the roads are more crowded and drivers are more distracted... anyone reaching the fine age of 50 has also noticed that their reaction times have not been improving... all this tells me, at 57, that the environment for me as a cyclist is NOT improving.