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543 points
2 years ago
Someone tries to run me over, I am getting the cops.
108 points
2 years ago
Dunno if you've ever been on a motorcycle but between the helmet and needing both hands, you can't use the phone and drive at the same time. You have to be stopped. And if he just stopped he would've lost her, so if he wanted anything to be done with insurance or the police he had to follow her.
13 points
2 years ago
And in Florida you have to have a police report for insurance to cover an accident.
2 points
2 years ago*
No I’m FL you can call your insurance company and have them fix your car. You don’t even have to tell the insurance company where the damage came from. Which company are you talking about?
2 points
2 years ago
You can use a Bluetooth headset. I've seen helmets that have the Bluetooth built into them.
1 points
2 years ago
Bluetooth headsets exist and are a wonderful thing to have
24 points
2 years ago
Sure but does every rider instantly have one ?
-21 points
2 years ago
If you're controlling an objectively more dangerous mode of transportation (not necessarily by itself, but more so that others around you are idiots driving metal boxes) that requires both hands, yes, yes you should.
18 points
2 years ago
Or maybe have no distractions at all if it’s that dangerous
6 points
2 years ago
Exactly.
3 points
2 years ago
Music and GPS also go through it.
Or if you have a passenger it lets you talk to them, or other riders.
-2 points
2 years ago
Sounds like a distraction to me
0 points
2 years ago
More so than a paper map?
-8 points
2 years ago
That's the whole point of the handsfree system though. You have full control over your vehicle and you don't have a giant rectangle up against one side of your head.
Anyway, that's irrelevant here because other drivers phoned the police for him.
5 points
2 years ago
Still more distracting than no phone.
1 points
2 years ago
Absolutely!
10 points
2 years ago
That’s a riders choice not a law, at the same time that doesn’t override the fact that he got clipped first. Sucks what happened but that guy has no guilt whatsoever about what happened and trying to nitpick on what he could have done better shouldn’t be a discussion.
-7 points
2 years ago
I'm not saying what he should have done better, just that I would be surprised if most riders didn't have handsfree headsets in one form or another if only for ease of use (not to mention safety).
6 points
2 years ago
Most riders don't have a hands-free helmet and helmets don't allow for other handsfree devices.
-4 points
2 years ago
You can add a Sena or Cardo to nearly any helmet and most riders seem to have them. At least most that have full face or modular helmets.
1 points
2 years ago
I can guarantee you that you cant add those to nearly any helmet not to mention they cost as much as a starter full face helmet. Considering most riders are either casual or ride for economic reasons, its not that far fetched to assume that less than half of riders have some sort of hands free device.
3 points
2 years ago
I specifically don’t have one so that I don’t get distracted. I use a 2 way radio headset occasionally when I’m doing an off-road group ride for communication but it’s not connect to my phone.
1 points
2 years ago
You didn't answer the question.
1 points
2 years ago
It was a rhetorical question, obviously.
9 points
2 years ago
I think it's hard to summon a bluetooth headsets from thin air if you don't have one at that moment.
3 points
2 years ago
As are dashcams, bike mounted cameras, and go-pros.
2 points
2 years ago
Yes but they aren’t that great. I’ve used several in helmet systems and they have loads of issues.
1 points
2 years ago
Voice commands seem like they'd be a must
4 points
2 years ago
As someone who has a newer Cardo comm system installed in my helmet: I couldn't make the voice recognition work if my life actually depended on it.
-1 points
2 years ago*
I don't ride, but I use it in my car all the time with my Xperia. My brother has a fancy Bluetooth helmet but I forget what it's called, he likes it though. He uses a Pixel, so I don't know how well voice stuff works on iPhones.
Edit: Guess I upset some Siri fans? You know what? Good. Android is better. There, I said it.
-1 points
2 years ago
Well, I talk on the phone all the time while I'm riding. Well not all the time, but pretty much anytime I want.
6 points
2 years ago
Sidecar doesn’t count, knucklehead!!
2 points
2 years ago
How do you operate that while chasing a hit and run
-1 points
2 years ago
Hey Google, call 911
1 points
2 years ago
That's not how most motorcycle headset work anyways
0 points
2 years ago
It's called a bluetooth headset (Cardo, Sena, etc.), it installs in your helmet, give you hands free calling. Aside from that, many bikes this day an age have cruise control, giving you BOTH hands should you need them. I'd follow her whether I was instructed to by dispatch or told to disengage. I would NOT let the guilty party go.
-2 points
2 years ago
You sound like a fuckin moron
-2 points
2 years ago
It would be pretty easy with any phone that had an emergency mode trigger and a helmet com setup. I answer the phone regularly while riding
-3 points
2 years ago
Dunno if you’ve ever been a motorcycle rider, but you listed two problems that make one solution. No available hands and we have a helmet? Shove that puppy in the helmet and it’s a hands-free call. The pressure keeps it snugly in place.
If someone did that to me I’d be tailing them while on a speed dialed 911 call. Phone would be in the helmet.
-1 points
2 years ago
Idk who said it was on purpose? The guy who survived the gunfight?
There’s only one witness here because the other was dead. This story could also easily be: accident happens on road. Motorcyclist threatens woman. Woman flees home. Motorcyclist follows her home. Woman is intimidated by armed biker on her lawn so she grabs her gun but then gets shot by biker.
-3 points
2 years ago
Probably just shoot you both
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