SwingingTheLamp

Easy to confuse, but Judith Love Cohen was an electrical engineer who worked on the Apollo program, as well. She’s credited with work that saved the Apollo 13 astronauts. She later became Jack Black’s mom.

No, my apologies! It’s even a personal rule of mine to not tell people what they believe and experience.

I stop at stop at stop signs, and see others do, too. So it happens. Probably as often as drivers stop at stop signs.

Oh, I did do that, didn’t I? Crap. I meant it in the general-you sense. But still, cyclists obey the law more often than drivers when researchers do objective counts.

Bullshit. Cyclists obey the rules of the road at greater rates than drivers. It’s just that you expect drivers to behave like entitled dipshits, so their lawbreaking is less visible.

The Netherlands was as car-brained as most other countries. Then, they changed course after the Stop de Kindermoord (Stop Murdering Children) protests, and started to build for people outside of cars. The process of rebuilding is still underway, now, in 2026.

The difference is not that the Netherlands was originally built for bicycles. It was not. The difference is that Americans don’t give two shits about the lives of children.

I first found John Forester’s book in the library in the 90s, and it felt like a tome of secret, special knowledge. Then, I read more of it, and it did not match my experiences.

Jason Slaughter has now done a very extensive takedown video on his Not Just Bikes channel, which is far more congruent with what I have seen. Taking the lane is effective when there’s no other choice, when it’s too narrow for cars to pass, but drivers will try anyway.

Otherwise, there’s very little that’s safe about it.

I don’t disagree, but the reason we don’t is because of the intense road rage it causes in drivers.

You say that, but drivers would lose their minds bicyclists followed the same rules. Example: Taking the whole lane.

No. The rotors are far too small. Simplify the problem down to a ratio of the weight of the craft to the surface area of the rotor blades. What kind of material would you use for them that could withstand that many pascals, and not fail catastrophically when spinning at the required RPM? Compare the surface area of helicopter rotors, or even rotors on FPV drones. They all have rotor diameters that exceed the dimensions of the aircraft body for a good reason.

Oxford got its name just the way it sounds. It’s located at a shallow spot in the river that was suitable for cattle to cross.