2025-04-25 21:11 UTC
@jessta@aus.social @Steveb@mastodon.ie Depends on the cyclist and the car-driver. I have seen some very careful drivers and very reckless cyclists.
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@jessta@aus.social 2025-04-26 03:33
@UkeleleEric@mstdn.social @Steveb@mastodon.ie no, it doesn't. It's just physics. A person on a bicycle is maybe 100kg, a person in a car is at least 1200kg. You need specific conditions to get a bicycle above 40km/h and 40km/h would be the average speed of someone in a car. A bicycle is narrow making it unlikely that the full momentum of the bicycle could be applied to the person you hit. Even if you were intentionally trying to kill someone by hitting them with a bicycle the force isn't large enough you'd be relying on a chance the person fell awkwardly and hit their head. But in a car the risk of you killing someone that you hit at 40km/h is 20%, at 50km/h it's more than 50%.