Interviewing a Driver
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1. Do you know what the traffic laws are regarding bicycles?
2. Does anyone in your family over the age of 12 ride a bicycle?
3. Do you really believe that your schedule is more important than a human life?
4. Will this experience change the way you approach a cyclist on the road?
2. Does anyone in your family over the age of 12 ride a bicycle?
3. Do you really believe that your schedule is more important than a human life?
4. Will this experience change the way you approach a cyclist on the road?
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Depends on the context. What were the circumstances of the crash, and what is the motorist's position and attitude about it?
By "interview", you mean formally, like you were a newspaper reporter?
By "interview", you mean formally, like you were a newspaper reporter?
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A narrative on bicycle driving.
A narrative on bicycle driving.
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But now that you mention it, if more motorists did, in fact, walk a mile in our cleats (so to speak), there would be a lot fewer deaths out there.
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Me: You maintain you did not see the cyclist, but given the active and passive lighting systems, ideal conditions lane positioning of the cyclist, how could you not?!
Judge: You don't have to answer the question
Driver: I'll answer the question, you want answers?
Me: I think I'm entiled.
Driver: You want answers?
Me: I want the truth.
Driver: You can't handle the truth. Son we live in a world where cars drive the economy. What else is going to move the economy... a bicycle? I have a responsiblilty you can't possibly fathom. You weep for the cyclist and you curse the cars. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know... that the cyclist's death, while tragic is avoidable if he was in a car. My existance, while groteque and incomprehensible to you drives the economy. You don't want the truth because deep down, in places you don't talk about on BF you need me out there driving. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rides a bicycle. I would rather you just said thank you and stayed on the sidewalk, otherwise I suggest you get a car. Either way I don't give a damn I hit a cyclist.
Me: Did you see the cyclist?
Driver: I drove my car
Me: Did you see the cyclist?
Driver: You're Goddamn right I did.
---Stunned Silence---
Judge: You don't have to answer the question
Driver: I'll answer the question, you want answers?
Me: I think I'm entiled.
Driver: You want answers?
Me: I want the truth.
Driver: You can't handle the truth. Son we live in a world where cars drive the economy. What else is going to move the economy... a bicycle? I have a responsiblilty you can't possibly fathom. You weep for the cyclist and you curse the cars. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know... that the cyclist's death, while tragic is avoidable if he was in a car. My existance, while groteque and incomprehensible to you drives the economy. You don't want the truth because deep down, in places you don't talk about on BF you need me out there driving. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rides a bicycle. I would rather you just said thank you and stayed on the sidewalk, otherwise I suggest you get a car. Either way I don't give a damn I hit a cyclist.
Me: Did you see the cyclist?
Driver: I drove my car
Me: Did you see the cyclist?
Driver: You're Goddamn right I did.
---Stunned Silence---
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^^^ Maybe we really can't afford to "drive" the economy in that fashion.
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