The Dutch Are Developing External Air Bags To Protect Cyclists And Pedestrians

Love it, all cars should have something like this.

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Everyone Is Guilty

3-Way Street from ronconcocacola on Vimeo.

I have said a million times on this website, everyone is breaking the law all the time. If you ever hear anyone start complaining about just one group of road users be sure to remind them that basically its everyone’s fault, and that everyone is breaking the law in a rather rampant fashion.

One thing of note here is how much smoother the law breaking between the pedestrians and cyclists are in the video above. Not to say its a good thing, but at least when you are smaller you have a better ability to share limited space. Cars it would seem are just too big for their own good.

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2009 One Of the Safest Years On Record For Bikers

2009 was almost the safest year on record if you drove, cycles, or walked in America, at least that is what the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) numbers show.

In 2009, 33,808 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes in the United States – the lowest number of deaths since 1950 (33,186 fatalities in 1950). This was a 9.7-percent decline in the number of people killed, from 37,423 in 2008 to 33,808, according to NHTSA’s 2009 Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) (see Figure 1). Fatalities declined among all categories of vehicle occupants and non-occupants as shown in Table 1 below. Motorcyclist fatalities broke the continuous 11-year increase with a large decline of 850 fatalities (24% of the total decline of 3,615). Motorcyclist fatalities now account for 13 percent of total fatalities. Passenger car occupant fatalities declined for the seventh consecutive year, and are at their lowest level since NHTSA began collecting fatality crash data in 1975. Light-truck occupant fatalities dropped for the fourth consecutive year, and are at their lowest level since 1997. The largest percentage reduction of people killed was among large truck occupants (26%) compared to any other vehicle category, followed by motorcyclists with a 16-percent reduction.

There was also a reduction in Pedestrian and Cyclists Fatalities.

You can read the full report here (pdf)

Alcohol still plays a large part in crashes and fatalities, but overall the roads are safer than they have ever been, so go ride your bike!

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Your Car Is Killing You

And I don’t just mean from the global warming emissions. Car crashes account for millions of people killed and injured every year. More than most wars, more than terrorist attacks, more than many well known medical illnesses, so why don’t we have a war on cars?

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You Know What Is Funny?

Calling a car a shitbox. I know it is childish but I giggle every time I hear someone call a car this. What fun names do you have for cars?

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