{"id":11,"date":"2008-01-16T13:53:13","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T05:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/16\/or-do-we-prefer-invisible-idiot\/"},"modified":"2008-01-16T14:04:03","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T06:04:03","slug":"or-do-we-prefer-invisible-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/16\/or-do-we-prefer-invisible-idiot\/","title":{"rendered":"Or do we prefer INVISIBLE IDIOT?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After seeing quite a few cyclists out tonight without lights, I suddenly got an awesome idea for a lights-at-night propaganda poster. With, okay, an insulting edge, but these people really make me nuts. Riding a lightless bike at night wearing black clothing is just dumb. Especially when you&#8217;re riding on the Caltrain platform. Do not run into me with your invisible bike when I&#8217;m wearing a yellow vest and showing a bright white light.<\/p>\n<p>Picture a nearly invisible cyclist-shaped black blotch on a slightly lighter background, captioned LOLcat-style: INVISIBLE NITWIT. For a less insulting edge, we could go with INVISIBLE CYCLIST. Think the <a href=\"http:\/\/svbcbikes.org\/\">SVBC<\/a> will go for it?<\/p>\n<p>On a more serious note, here&#8217;s a question: how do you handle bidirectional turn lanes where it&#8217;s entirely possible for two people going the opposite direction to both be aiming to stop at the same spot in order to turn left? It&#8217;s not always easy to tell where someone&#8217;s going to stop. Obviously the thing to do safety-wise is watch carefully, slow down, and prepare to stop, but what are the right-of-way issues?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After seeing quite a few cyclists out tonight without lights, I suddenly got an awesome idea for a lights-at-night propaganda poster. With, okay, an insulting edge, but these people really make me nuts. Riding a lightless bike at night wearing black clothing is just dumb. Especially when you&#8217;re riding on the Caltrain platform. Do not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}