This is the natural selection process at work. Any idiot who drives an ATV on a highway deserves anything that happens. If that’s being obliterated by a car, truck, or bus so be it. They afford no collidion or upset protection, and lack minimal safety lights to warn real motorists where they are.
When area they going to open up the roads in my state? We need more cost cutting methods to increase the usage of ATVs. This is not a travesty, but an opportunity. Soon we’ll have govt health insurance that will cover all problems and lower costs. People take what you can! Blame others! The new American Way. Its not going to be my fault if I get hurt. The govt told me I could do it and they insure me. All is well.
“It scares me because it is almost unenforceable,” he said. “And I worry that the general perception by the public will be that they can just go out and drive these things on the road without the proper registration and payment of fees.”
I suspect that is how the bicyclists got approval to ride the streets in our state. Which is clearly just an attempt for the camel to get its nose under the tent. Then once under, there is no stopping it from entering. As in my neck of the woods, when there is more than one bicyclist, they take up a full lane. Then get mad and fly fingers or words, that my young sone does not know, when they are expected to obey traffic laws, like stop at a stop sign.
The sad part is we have numerous bike trails from 1 to 20 miles in length that are available, but seems these bikes have the right of way.
Riding in an area of about 1 foot allows little room for mistake. The cars pass way to fast and many do not move over. If the bicyclist makes the slightest mistake, a life is taken. For your own sake, I hope govt does not give you a lane….
I was trying to be facetious and I agree with your assessment of bike rider’s gestures, etc. It seems they forget their manners and the rules of the road once they get out of a car and on a bicycle. Heaven forbid that they get injured or worse, but I have little sympathy for them once they cop an attitude.
My only concern is that the state require them to carry minimum liability limits of $500,000 BI and $100,000 PD. When one pulls out in front of my Mercedes and I crush it at 90MPH I expect my repairs to be covered. I’d also like to see an exclusion in their medical coverage for injuries sustained in a collision with a real vehicle.
Don’t really need to smack ’em at 90, about 45 will do! Wonder how many of them even carry homeowners coverage. I don’t have any problem with the careful ones, just the jerks (unfortunately they seem to outnumber the others).
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This is the natural selection process at work. Any idiot who drives an ATV on a highway deserves anything that happens. If that’s being obliterated by a car, truck, or bus so be it. They afford no collidion or upset protection, and lack minimal safety lights to warn real motorists where they are.
they knew what they were getting into. I say, let ’em crash.
When area they going to open up the roads in my state? We need more cost cutting methods to increase the usage of ATVs. This is not a travesty, but an opportunity. Soon we’ll have govt health insurance that will cover all problems and lower costs. People take what you can! Blame others! The new American Way. Its not going to be my fault if I get hurt. The govt told me I could do it and they insure me. All is well.
Bicycles on the freeways?
“It scares me because it is almost unenforceable,” he said. “And I worry that the general perception by the public will be that they can just go out and drive these things on the road without the proper registration and payment of fees.”
Heavy emphasis on “…without…payment of fees.”
Just not much of it, like about a foot.
Share the road,
I suspect that is how the bicyclists got approval to ride the streets in our state. Which is clearly just an attempt for the camel to get its nose under the tent. Then once under, there is no stopping it from entering. As in my neck of the woods, when there is more than one bicyclist, they take up a full lane. Then get mad and fly fingers or words, that my young sone does not know, when they are expected to obey traffic laws, like stop at a stop sign.
The sad part is we have numerous bike trails from 1 to 20 miles in length that are available, but seems these bikes have the right of way.
Riding in an area of about 1 foot allows little room for mistake. The cars pass way to fast and many do not move over. If the bicyclist makes the slightest mistake, a life is taken. For your own sake, I hope govt does not give you a lane….
I was trying to be facetious and I agree with your assessment of bike rider’s gestures, etc. It seems they forget their manners and the rules of the road once they get out of a car and on a bicycle. Heaven forbid that they get injured or worse, but I have little sympathy for them once they cop an attitude.
My only concern is that the state require them to carry minimum liability limits of $500,000 BI and $100,000 PD. When one pulls out in front of my Mercedes and I crush it at 90MPH I expect my repairs to be covered. I’d also like to see an exclusion in their medical coverage for injuries sustained in a collision with a real vehicle.
Don’t really need to smack ’em at 90, about 45 will do! Wonder how many of them even carry homeowners coverage. I don’t have any problem with the careful ones, just the jerks (unfortunately they seem to outnumber the others).