micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility
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"Transportation using lightweight vehicles such as bicycles or scooters, especially electric ones that may be borrowed as part of a self-service rental program in which people rent vehicles for short-term use within a town or city.
micromobility is seen as a potential solution to moving people more efficiently around cities"
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So the only way it worked was in a closed study where all the drivers were warned cyclists would blow they stop signs without stopping...
Did they even wait a day after telling them? Or did they tell them that, run the experiment, and then claim it's safer for cyclists to ignore traffic laws?
Even if there's a short term increase, it won't take long for drivers to forget that cyclists aren't going to obey traffic laws.
Is the criticism that they told drivers about how the Idaho stop worked? If the Idaho stop was going to be more widely adopted, it's a reasonable assumption that there would be a public education campaign so people knew what to expect.
Either way though, it's a study meant to test a hypothesis and the outcome suggested that Idaho's approach may be a good one.
If you're wanting an admission that the study's results may not hold up under further testing, sure. Admitted. But the study as a first step is pretty reasonable.
And that will never get out to everyone...
And while they may remember, how long will they?
Couple days? Couple months?
How long do you think a 60 year old will remember and pay attention to it over 45 years of driving experience?
It's not if the only way it worked was immediately before the test saying "cyclists won't obey traffic laws".
Like, there'd have to be an automated message that plays every single time you start a vehicle for this to be applicable...
It's a traffic law, you can teach it just like any other. It gets added to driving school's curricula and must be demonstrated in driving tests. You could communicate this law to existing drivers by removing the stop line from bike lanes and putting little bike yield signs, if the intersection warrants it.
Anything to avoid personal accountability I guess...
I've noticed that's a huge trend in this sub, and honestly I should have just blocked it long ago
What are you even talking about?
It's your personal responsibility as a driver to know and obey all traffic laws, even if they change it so that cyclists don't have to physically stop at stop signs.