You do realize that while I and most people would not do it, when you drive stupid, you piss people off. When people get pissed off, that is the kind of **** they would do.
Honestly, for putting yourself in an at risk position, you cannot call someone else an asshole when you deliberately are ******* disobeying the rules of the road and nearly hitting at least 3 cars.
I have nothing at all against motorcyclists, but if you run an intersection like this and are dodging and weaving between cars, literally, LITERALLY everyone around you sees an idiot rather than badass.
I guess you aren't able to analyze the events surrounding him. The only reason why he did it is to save his ass from slamming into the back of the car or dropping his bike. It was more than likely safer to ride through a yellow light than hitting a car. Not to mention that van was doing a u-turn on the end of a yellow light, or even a red light at that point and this is why u-turns are illegal in many places. So again, the only reason why he was lane splitting and weaving was to avoid the crash into the first car, then to avoid the van breaking the rules of the road.
You're just as bad as those brake checking assholes if you're going to open your door on a biker or motorcycle rider.
Its just dangerous driving no matter which way you slice it. I did not notice the car, but it was stopping at yellow. Yellow is not a race to get through the intersection. You should be prepared to stop at yellow. The biker was going way too fast in this gif, so while yes he did avoid rear ending the car ahead of him, this shouldnt have even been the case. BOTH CARS in front of the biker were stopping on yellow, they had TIME and so did the biker, the biker either was not paying attention or intentionally pulled this. You cant claim he didnt have time, when his own driving is what put him in the reckless position in the first place.
And the van pulling a u-turn, thought legitimately thought it was safe when the two leading cars on the other side of the intersection stopped. So whether or not it was illegal, the van pulled a u-turn at the SAFEST POSSIBLE TIME. Literally the only factor, that caused this whole scenario was the biker
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At the start of the gif, the car in front seems to be going the same speed as the bike. As he goes past, you can see it's over the line. That tells me that the car in front hit the brakes hard, to avoid going through a yellow light, the only reason I can think that you'd do so being because it just turned yellow and you're not sure how long it's been like that, better to stop now than accidentally running a red because you weren't looking.
That puts the guy on the bike on the position of "swerve and don't hit the car" or "brake and hope you don't hit the car"
Yellow means "stop if it's safe" and I can totally see the guy on the bike making the snap decision that swerving around is safer than trying to stop particularly when you include the possibility that there could be a guy behind him not paying full attention , which puts all of the danger squarely at the fault of the guy doing the U-turn and the guy who decided a sudden stop was the way to go.
Sure the fact remains that he may have been able to stop but perhaps he wasn't looking at the light at that second so he may have been correcting his own mistake but either way you didn't see the original video. The gif is sped up twice or thrice the original speed. He is going no more than 30 miles per hour.
But still, you're no better than the biker if you're going to endanger his life or others by opening your car door on said person.
******* morons doing u turns out of nowhere. To be fair the motorcyclist isn't even at fault here. Light is green, he isn't really going fast, if you watch the original vid you'll see that, he just filters in front to save some time and there's the asshole making a u turn.
Kinda looks like the car in front of him slammed on the breaks to avoid hitting the guy doing the u-turn, motorcycle wouldn't stop that quickly without falling over so the guy tries to go through and dodges everything.
Or maybe he's being an ass hole, but that's borderline suicidal so I'm less inclined to think he did it to save a few seconds.
I don't believe so, if you look at the time the light changes to yellow the guy in the white car is maybe two car lengths, probably not even that far from the light. It would be unlikely the rider would be able to stop in time and control the bike so its still an early yellow light, which would allow the biker to lane split and safely go through the two cars, however the van makes a u-turn on a yellow which is dangerous and should've never been done.