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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