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Look at all these people stuck in their metal boxes (cdn.imgchest.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
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[+] -17 points 1 year ago* (17 children)
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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The video is sped up, right?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    If you're using Boost or app capable for controlling playback speed, turn it to 0.25. That's the actual speed. Look out for the jogger at 25 second mark, that's the hint. Any other speed and the jogger will run in cartoonish speed.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Lol, I reviewed it at .25 and I think you're right. I did that part again at .5 and it looked straight up silly. Those cars are fucked with how slow that is going, although I do think construction near the end might be impacting it.

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  • [+] -15 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Limit seems to be 20 and assuming that is mph, it's around 32kmph. Slowing down the footage, it seems they ride in a speed around 22 to 26kmph? Doesn't seems that fast to me, i tend to ride around 17kmph and it seems to past the stationary car just a bit faster than i do, and feels similar when i do it with my ebike on 25kmph. The camera seems to be wide angle which often give the viewer the false sense of speed.

    Also speed limit might not applicable to bicycle.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    The speed limit does apply to cyclists, but that 20 mph sign was for a school zone and is only in effect when the lights are flashing, which they weren't.

    I didn't see any other speed limit signs, so we have no way of knowing what the normal limit was (short of turning it into a game of Geoguessr), but my educated guess is that it's probably 35 mph. Edit: another commenter named the street and I found a speed limit sign for the opposite direction on Google Street View. It's 25 mph.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    it's obviously sped up and even if it wasn't this seems like a perfectly reasonable speed to bike at. This looks to be america and so you rather have to go fast in order to reach your destination within the hour..

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Dunno about where you are but where I live cyclists do not have to adhere to "posted speed limits".

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Where this video was taken, cyclists do have to adhere to posted speed limits. However, we don't actually know what the speed limit was here (the 20 mph sign did not apply because it wasn't flashing). Edit: found it based on another commenter naming the street. 25 mph.

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  • [+] -6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Also, oops a Uber passenger just ended their ride early and got out to walk, opens door on the biker because they are flying too fast.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    That's against the law in MA, passenger would be at fault.

    Motorist Responsibilities (see MGL Chapter 89, Section 2 and Chapter 90, Section 14)

    Motorists and their passengers must check for passing bicyclists before opening their door. Motorists and their passengers can be ticketed and fined up to $100 for opening car or truck doors into the path of any other traffic, including bicycles and pedestrians.
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