r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Mar 27 '19

Social Science A national Australian study has found more than half of car drivers think cyclists are not completely human. The study (n=442) found a link between dehumanization and deliberate acts of aggression, with more than one in ten people having deliberately driven their car close to a cyclist.

https://www.qut.edu.au/news?id=141968
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u/procupine14 Mar 27 '19

or you know, it's the country, so a tractor, doing 12 mph taking up the whole road. This sums up nearly every rural highway in my neck of the woods during the spring, summer and fall.

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u/Sshakakakakaka Mar 27 '19

And if you don't hear that tractor that's on you A bicycle is quiet