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Without cars there would be no reason to have signal lights at intersections. Cars are clunky, slow to accelerate, sound dampening and huge, which is why they need all this wasteful infrastructure to make them feasible at all. People on bikes have much better vision and hearing so if you pay attention to the traffic situation, its not necessarily dangerous to run a red light.
In a comparison between cars and cyclists, I'm a little amused that you'd call cars slow to accelerate. When driving, my main issue with cyclists wasn't anything to do with traffic laws; it was just that, when stuck behind them, my trip was doomed to take a great deal longer. Granted, the only thing I believe ought to be done about it is to build more bike paths, but still; a cyclist calling automobiles slow to accelerate is worth a laugh!
It's like how when you play Mario Kart, Toad can speed up real quickly compared to Bowser, but give Bowser a long straight away and he'll eventually be going faster than Toad.
Because Toad is lighter weight, I guess. I'm not sure how that logic leads to Bowser being faster Max speed.
Ah yes acceleration = max speed
Go back to school and apologize to your physics teacher
In a 30 kph zone with multiple stops the acceleration is probably more relevant assuming that the car was intending to obey traffic laws. On long stretches of road with higher speed limits the limiting factor is definitely max speed but then you can usually overtake.
Yes but the post is about intersections and red lights...
Yes, still amused. Automobiles indeed have higher max speed than cyclists do, and they also accelerate more quickly.
That's why I love my small electric car, all your complaints are invalid for it and I don't have to freeze or get wet when I need to travel far up a giant hill.
Electric cars are heavier, noise dampened, and have the same blind spots, they do accelerate faster though depending on the situation that can just make an inattentive driver more dangerous.
Electric cars are better environmentally then gas cars but they certainly don’t absolve the need for traffic signals the way purely pedestrian and cycle traffic would
They are better, but only in a few ways. They are still very bad for causing sprawl, they shed microplastics etc.
For the audience, tires are not made of "rubber" these days they are made from modern plastics.