That family lawyer actually had an accident that a bicycle helmet is actually capable of protecting you from.
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“goes against what 99.9% of the cycling community believes”
Have you surveyed them? Because my personal experience suggests you are pulling that number out of some passer-by’s arse.
I support wearing of motorbike helmets. For any two-wheel travel at 30mph+, and protection from motor vehicles.
“If you wear a helmet, and get in a bike accident, that will make you less likely to get a serious head injury.” Except, they don’t. And they make the worst head injuries worse.
Bicycle helmets are not designed to protect you from a collission with a motor vehicle.
It is designed to protect you from a fall from head height to the ground, at road speeds of up to 7mph.
The top speed a bicycle is rated to protect you from is 7mph.
If you wouldn’t wear a helmet while jogging, there is no reason to wear a bicycle helmet while cycling.
$5 cycle hemetts (if they are certified as meeting the standard) are *more* protective than $60 helmets.
The drivers in the Netherelands are assumed to be at fault in any collission with a pedestrian or a cyclist. It makes drivers feel much less entitled to roadspace.
Because bicycle helmets are, counterintuitively, countertproductive.
The key studies claiming positive effect from cycle helmets have long been discreditted.
OMG. This is about the most counter-productive regualtions or laws it is possible to enact.
There are also studies showing that, because self-driving cars are driving around while unoccupied, that they actually put traffic volumes up.
Yes, a lot less common in the UK. Altough since 2011, all new petrol vehicles have to be able to use E10. But even E10 is not common in the UK - although it is common in Germany, France and Finland.
What is relatevely common in the UK is diesel made out of reconditioned deep-far frying oil, such as from [fish and] chip…
Only if the driver survives to update the rating. In a fatal crash, the rating stays at 4/5
Jag has adaptive cruise, lane-sensing autosteer, auto-parking and auto-parallel parking.
One of reasons SuperCruise is so much better is that roads have to be prequalified by GM before SuperCruise can drive them
If *you* told us Torch, that’s exactly the image we’d expect.
The Merkur XR4Ti was the Sierra XR4i
Mk3 Ford Escort - the one the US Ford Escort ended up loosely based on - was FWD.
The Escort was a massively different car in the USA. The original idea was that the Mk3 Escort would be a world car - Ford would design it once, and build it everywhere.