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Tag Archives: safety
Reflective Clothing as Panacea — again.
This photo in a New York Times article (also archived, slower but no paywall) shows a bicyclist riding with a reflectorized shirt, which shows up well in a photo taken with flash on the camera, but the bicyclist has NO … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling
Tagged bicycle, Bicycling, clothing, law, lighting, reflectors, safety
7 Comments
Another crosswalk confusion, and a fatality
In response to my post about confused yielding requirements where shared-use paths cross streets, Ryan Reasons has published comments on a recent fatal truck-bicycle crash in the Seattle, Washington area. The photo below is from the KOMO TV/radio station news … Continue reading
Some thoughts about self-driving cars
Google’s report on its self-driving cars: http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en/us/selfdrivingcar/files/reports/report-0515.pdf — no longer available. Here is an updated version. Most than half of the collisions reported in this document are slow-speed rear-enders of the Google cars. That’s unusual. It might be that the … Continue reading
Change lanes in a roundabout?
Ohio cyclist Patricia Kovacs posted an e-mail asking some questions about roundabouts: Ohio engineers are telling us to use the inner lane for left turns and U turns. Both the FHWA [Federal Highway Administration] and videos available on our local … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling, Bike lanes, Roundabouts, traffic circles, Traffic Signals
Tagged bicycle, Bicycling, bike lane, crash, crosswalk, pedestrian, rotary, roundabout, safety, traffic, traffic circle, vehicle, video
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Comments on the Ohio roundabout video
I’ve moved the comments here from another post, which was getting long. Here’s the Ohio video: Summarizing my comments about the video, it shows roundabouts, a useful, time-efficient though space-intensive intersection design, but it gives some questionable advice on design … Continue reading
Volvo promotes a reflective paint which fades in 10 days!
The last word in safe bicycling, NOT! I mean, this could be a premature April Fool’s joke! [September 2025 edit: Reviewing some of my old posts to update video links, I find that this video this has been marked ‘private’ … Continue reading
Is this an electrically-assisted bicycle?
The photo above is of ELF microcars from the US company Organic Transit. The ELF is marketed as a velocar — an enclosed, pedal-powered vehicle — but in reality, it is an electrically-powered microcar designed to meet the legal definition … Continue reading
When slow is too fast
The basic speed limit, not to go too fast under the existing conditions, is often lower than the posted speed limit. When facilities like the bike lane in the video are built in which 10 mph, or even 5 mph, … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling, Bike lanes
Tagged bicycle, Bicycling, bike lane, collision, crash, safety
14 Comments
Lessons of Taiwan crash
The video embedded below of a car-bicycle collision in Taipei, Taiwan has been making the rounds on the Internet. When you have started the video playing,you can click on “Youtube”, and then on the little gear wheel at the lower … Continue reading
Europeans ride like this?
Check out this promotion video for Kickstarter funding, shot in Germany, or maybe Austria or Switzerland. The streets look German, and part of the narration is in German with English subtitles: Edit: unavailable as of September 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNs0ZQ_wzAc The video … Continue reading
