Post #4270392

@hackuador@functional.cafe The thing is that even if someone else does something unlawful, the car driver should not have been in a position where that happened. Consider that was a motorbike rider (which I formerly was). If you are in a position where someone does something unlawful and you have to evade and then *hit a bus* you are dead. Literally. Dead. So ultimately as a motorcyclist I was trained to pre-empt and monitor the road as your life is on the line every second - you must build a safety margin at all times or else. Those skills *have* saved my life multiple times. In other words this was an avoidable situation - there was no need for a car to torpedo a bus. The driver of that car was in an unsafe position *before* the former performed the unlawful action. If you are a motorcyclist you would be dead. If you were on a bicycle, you would be dead. So why is it that operator of a nearly 1 ton metal machine is given a slap on the wrist for what *could have been* multiple deaths? Why was the other driver given a similarly trivial slap on the wrist for endangering others. Ultimately my point is that we have a separation in our society where car drivers are given a free pass for highly dangerous actions - we make excuses for the actions that would otherwise be deadly.