Erich,
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There has been a deluge of articles in the last couple weeks about the danger of and California's push to require licensing to ride them.

As a bike rider it's never surprising to see the media and drivers blame riders for their own deaths, no matter how egregious the driver error was. And some of the cited examples are quite egregious.

But this push for education and licensing made me wonder:

How effective is Driver's Ed at improving road safety?

Not at all.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8142340/

Erich,
@Erich@a2mi.social avatar

This NYT article is full of examples where eBike riders were doing everything they could to ride safely, and yet drivers still crashed into them.

The solution is not to reform the eBike riders, it's to reform the drivers, the cars, and the built environment.

No amount of education would have kept these people safe.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/29/health/ebikes-safety-teens.html

osma,

@Erich
Spot on. There are only two effective methods for increasing traffic safety:

  1. Build environments where safety is a design factor. It's not like there aren't good examples.
  2. Include mandatory traffic lessons on bikes in driver ed and especially for professional drivers.

https://road.cc/content/news/182717-video-how-teach-bus-drivers-give-cyclists-space

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