Comments on: A Passing Fancy

By: Niall Kane

Niall Kane — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:37:03 +0000

In my experience,truckers often indicate as if they’re pulling in to tell drivers stuck behind them that it’s safe to pass

By: Beany

Beany — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:15:26 +0000

Tom, if you haven't seen this before, you'll get a kick out of now. It discusses death by car as "slaughter"...in the NYT too.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:10:55 +0000

Bullet 4 is the big one. As a cyclist I used to signal to motorists that I thought it was safe to pass. The problem was, my waving my arm seemed to have an amazing ability to conjure oncoming traffic. Now I only signal to slow down if I see traffic I don’t think overtaking traffic can. Doesn’t seem to matter sometimes, this morning I was cresting a hill with a motorist about 200 yards behind me and oncoming traffic about 400 yards to my front. I signal to the overtaker to slow down and he took that as a signal to speed up. He (she?) nearly managed to create a head-on crash with a combined speed well in excess of 100 MPH.