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Date:      Tue, 04 Nov 2003 18:37:19 -0500
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How do hackers drive?
Message-ID:  <3FA8382F.50204@potentialtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <xzp7k2frbm8.fsf@dwp.des.no>
References:  <20031104192215.GA848@online.fr> <xzp7k2frbm8.fsf@dwp.des.no>

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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> writes:
> 
>>The most bicycle-friendly country I've seen is the Netherlands.
> 
> Bicycle-friendly, but lethal for pedestrians.  Dutch cyclists treat
> pedestrians with the same contempt as drivers to cyclists in most
> other countries...

Are you serious?  That doesn't sound possible.  I mean, a car can
collide with a bicycle and cause no damage to the driver.  The
psychotic driver can have the twisted pleasure of having hurt or
killed a cyclist with little more than an insurance claim to fix
the cosmetic damager to his vehicle.

A cyclist, OTOH, will generally do a similar amount of damage to
himself as he does to the pedestrian he collides with.  So I would
think there is a certain amount of self-preservation that prevents
cyclists from colliding with pedestrians.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com



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