Originally Posted by
SargonDragon
Indeed. It was a mistake to suggest that motorists might not actually be subhuman.
I think I'm done. Joining bikeforums was a mistake. I really don't fit in here.
Ignorant and impatient, not subhuman. Except in the car-free section (and most of them there), almost every cyclist on Bike Forums is also a driver.
Personally, I didn't take up cycling until I was 48. I have a commercial license. I've driven just about everything, and maybe 150,000 miles on fast motorcycles. I don't recall ever being angered or annoyed with a bicycle on the road, and I didn't realize that so many people were ignorant of these laws until becoming a cyclist.
It shouldn't have surprised me, because I did realize how ignorant drivers were in general. For example, some guy in a Porsche in the fast lane getting upset because someone else is going 75 and he wants to go 90 (this isn't directed at you personally), that sort of ignorance is common. It's all part of the same problem in my opinion: people being ignorant of the laws and the extent of their own privilege.