Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
Love it as much as your own fabrications? You paraphrase and twist the posts of skepticism about hyperbole and exaggeration of the extent of the threat to cyclists from alleged rampant motorist texting while driving into calling other posters "liars."
If motorists were texting while driving as much as feared by the overwrought petrified posters of BF, the reckless motorists would be eliminating themselves from the driving population through crashing in to objects as quickly as the extinct reckless bicyclists who allegedly routinely "blew red lights" at busy intersection without ever looking at the traffic conditions.
You do understand there's been a steady increase in pedestrian deaths since 2009 after many years of decline, right? Gosh, what's significant about that year? Sure is a puzzler.
This is not a small increase btw, it's a couple thousand deaths per year.
The magic shield around my bike seems to be broken.
I know you love going on and on about strawman arguments you seem to be hearing in your head, but it's a real problem killing real people.
Oh, and btw, Colorado law forbids operating when the driver's view through the glass is obstructed, so it would be clearly illegal to drive with a towel over your face. Nice try. I think pretty much anywhere in the country it would probably be an actual crime of recklessness.
We could debate plausibly about whether hands-free calling is or isn't safer than holding the phone to your ear, but there's no plausible argument that people reading and writing texts while driving are operating safely. I have no idea who in Colorado thought this was a good idea.