Safety Fail

[IrishJedi]

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[mr.thrifty]

only in the EU.....

 

[Dally]

That guy is insane!

 

[Voorhees27]

You mean he never falls off the bike?

 

[IrishJedi]

Almost as amusing: the fact that they get cut off by cars (closely) and think nothing of it (another feature unique to foreign travel).

 

[nash]

how is he keeping the throttle open?

 

[IrishJedi]

how is he keeping the throttle open?

I was wondering the same thing. Is this one of those new bikes with automatic transmission and cruise control or something?

 

[ProgMatinee]

the car drivers in that video are retarded.

 

[kazukijun]

What the???
Apparently nobody uses their signal lights as well.
Does it have auto pilot or auto rider on?

 

[karamazov80]

I initially thought that this was referring to the guy mindlessly drifting into the other lane, irrespective of whether a car was there or not.

Shouldn't it be called "Safety failure", though? Or has stupid internet grammar taken such a hold that I should ignore these things.

 

[Dusty]

Actually I think driving somewhere like the EU makes you a better driver - and not so upset about people cutting you off

In a similar way to LA - I think people here are actually better drivers than almost anywhere else in the US. If you think about it there should be WAY MORE accidents than there are. It's because driving here teaches you to drive defensively with a good mix of offense thrown in (or else you'd never get anywhere ).

Now, if we could just get the LA drivers to CHILL OUT like the motorbike dude and not freak out about getting cut off, we'd be golden

 

[pixletwin]

In salt lake people drive crazy and don't use their turn signals. In LA I noticed people drive crazier but actually use their turn signals.

Guess which I prefer.

 

[Bannister]

In salt lake people drive crazy and don't use their turn signals. In LA I noticed people drive crazier but actually use their turn signals.

Guess which I prefer.

I remember the one time I was in LA at the airport. People would just point to where they wanted to merge into a lane and honk. People let them in. It was an interesting system.

 

[Bannister]

Guess which I prefer.

Multiple wives.

 

[DarkArtist81]

FL is horrible.... around here you get that perfect mix of retirees who drive waaaay too slow and young people who drive super reckless and fast. It's accident central, I absolutely despise it.

As for that video, that's insane. The guy was even texting on his phone and placing his hands behind his head. I thought he would eat it, but he was actually controlling the bike well.

 

[pixletwin]

Multiple wives.

 

[Balsquat]

I kept waiting for the fall...Booourns!

 

[Bannister]

This is why I love you Pix, unconditionally.

 

[Shatterer of Dreams]

man those people drive crazy, when the cars started to pass the guy on the bike while they were all in the same lane that's when i started thinking "here comes the fail" but alas it was not to be had.

 

[Reinhardt]

only in the EU.....

that's actually in India!