i feel so bad for all the people that are terrorized by me riding my bike in my residential neighborhood where they just wanted to take a shortcut in their pristine lifted F-250. i’m sure they took the toolbox off and just got it washed this morning on the way to their office job.

CommieCommuterKazi, more like it.

Send in the next wave.

why is the statute of liberty there?

Scream!

Ham-fisted but accurate.

(Had to.)

Accurate depiction of drivers in my city

Where I'm at, they added a "bike lane" on the highway... Which is literally just the shoulder barely wide enough for a cyclist... on a very busy highway that sees lots of trucks and trailers and wide loads, in addition to people travelling at highway speeds. No divider, just a paint line.

That's not a bike lane, that's an accident about to happen.

We need real bike lanes, divided by something more than 2 inches of paint, to prevent traffic fatalities.

God I fucking wish

What a hell's up with the kami-computer-kaze dude in the middle of the road?

This depicts a two lane road with no bike lane.

The cyclist should actually be in the middle of the lane or even slightly left of middle to avoid motorists trying to squeeze by them in the same lane, like in the comic, which creates a dangerous circumstance for the cyclist, having fast moving vehicles passing inches away.

It's funny how often you see drivers taking a right turn and they are terrified of scraping their tire on the curb, so they have a several foot gap. But we should trust them to know where the right side of their car is when squeezing past a cyclist? I admit they can see better in that situation, but the risk is all on the cyclist.

The safest circumstance for the cyclist is if there is a car behind them who is not passing. But most motorists like to go faster than a bicycle.

The motorist should pass the bicycle in the same way they'd pass any other slower moving vehicle, by using the oncoming lane in a passing zone.

Of course, that creates its own sort of danger because inattentive drivers may come up onto the bicycle too quickly and then they won't have a place to swerve to at the last moment.

And all of that is simply about the safety of the cyclist. Obviously, some places will have ridiculous laws that force cyclists into dangerous situations.

But realistically, with the attitudes and complete lack of driving skills of most drivers, cyclists are taking risks just by using roads like that.