The Idaho Stop
My, my, this is awfully sensible:
Bicycles, Rolling Stops, and the Idaho Stop from Spencer Boomhower on Vimeo.
This is all especially true now that we live in a world where daytime TV hosts pregnant with the children of former football stars fall victim to hit-and-runs by bicycle delivery guys.
Bicycles, Rolling Stops, and the Idaho Stop from Spencer Boomhower on Vimeo.
This is all especially true now that we live in a world where daytime TV hosts pregnant with the children of former football stars fall victim to hit-and-runs by bicycle delivery guys.
posted by Sam at 9:46 PM
2 Comments:
SO reasonable. I definitely already do that. But wouldn't it be nice to know I wasn't breaking the law?
When cars have to stop and start it makes them less efficient as well so I guess by this logic a car should be allowed to make a rolling stop using the same rules. Right?
Either way, I don't buy it because by allowing rolling stops, you're making something definitive (a complete stop) into something objective (a rolling stop). Who is to say whether the cyclist slowed or yield appropriately? The cyclist may think she or he did, but a police officer, pedestrian, or driver may see it otherwise. If you have to stop, there's not question. I think safety is more important here than efficiency.
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