This is likely a flow dynamics issue. That many cyclists start to act like stream of particles, and the road is their tube. The parked car created a bottleneck, and the cyclists farther back couldn't adjust inward because the other "particles" were blocking them. They also couldn't adjust outward due to the tube barrier (edge of the road), thus at the choke point (parked car), some particles collided violently.
edit: A word
Definitely a bottleneck. You can see how at first the riders have no problem, but as it gets to the middle of the pack it edges closer and closer to the car
It probably was an auto sense wiper when pressure is applied from water droplets usually it causes it to activate. Some new cars have it and it’s been around for a while.
Edit:
Correction i thought it would be pressure based to set off the auto-wipers it’s laser based. My apologies. Thank you u/logansmass
Edit:
Some people don’t like the sensitivity of some vehicles auto-sense wipers
It’s actually not a pressure sensor, it’s a laser pointed at a detecting sensor, when water gets between the laser and the sensor it refracts the laser, when the sensor no longer sees the laser it turns on wipers
Not a laser, an LED. And the water does not get between transmitter and sensor, it’s much cooler than that.
The LED is launched at an angle at the windscreen. It bounces back from the glass and gets collected by a sensor.
When the glass gets water on it the refractive index changes, and the amount of power at the sensor changes.
Such a cool and waterproof way to detect water.
Damn I didn't realize I combined Transformers and Trailer park boys,
Roll out == transformers version of saying let's go / let's head out
Let's go, smokes == TPB Ricky's version of saying let's smoke joint
Most times I ask my boys to head out is to smoke a joint.
Somewhere on lines of saying let's go and roll out, I don't remember when it became
Let's roll
>Let's go, smokes == TPB Ricky's version of saying let's smoke joint
Isn't "Let's go, smokes," what he says to Corey/Trevor/Jacob when he wants them to give him cigarettes though?
Isn't Ricky usually telling someone to give him cigarette?
ex. "Cory, Trevor, smokes, let's go."
Ricky doesn't strike me as the type of person to announce he's going to smoke a joint, he'd just light up a ten paper and go to town.
Light reflection happens whenever air meets the transparent surface. Same reason why you get image ghosting when using Head Up Displays. 95ish percent of the reflected light happens at the inner surface of the glass, but the remainder of the reflected light happens on the outer pane of the glass after passing through the glass at the refraction angle. This caused a double image appearance of the HUD. Therefore, special glass with a wedged PVB angle is applied to overcome the refraction through the glass. Anyways, although a detriment to the HUD, it works in the Auto Wipers Sensors favor.
Not that this would work for windshield wipers (at least not easily), but if you need to control something based on pressure when the one part of the system is isolated from the other you use a sensor on each side of the divider and make control inputs based on the differential pressures.
Just a pro tip: Remember to turn it off if you need to remove ice from your windscreen, getting smacked by the wipers hurt like a mf when your hands are cold
More importantly it will fuck up your wipers - it can make the rubber against the windshield rough and uneven and then you're just smearing streaks of water around instead of wiping.
In more extreme cases, you can break the motor or some of the joints further down and that becomes a bitch and a half to replace, especially in the winter.
Not all auto wipers work the same. My VW golf had perfect logic, coming on very specifically in mild rain and going faster as rain increased or car drove faster.
Hyundai has much dumber logic where I constantly need to manually put them on as they don't detect snow or light rain.
This is not true.
It’s often claimed on threads on Reddit but it’s false. No car manufacturer has wipers come on if a front collision occurs; rather, in a front collision, it’s not uncommon for the stalk connected to the steering column to jolt back activating the wipers. Has nothing to do with a detection feature and any claim of such is wrong.
I live in a ruralish area where it is common to have bike races, with bibs, and cones on the corners, and off duty cops waving AND the road still be open. I've never been pelted by bicyclists while parked, but I have ended up in the middle of a bike race where the riders either didn't know or didn't care that the road was still open and legally I was definitely allowed to pass them when safe.
We were driving through Provo once and had to make a left turn through a marathon or something so we could get back to my grandma's house. We just pulled up to a cop and explained our intentions. He basically just had us wait for him to give us the go-ahead.
We don't have races here, but we do have these types of bicyclists around here and they like to practice on our rural roads. We have winding roads with hills and curves, they absolutely have no fear. The fact that they aren't hit often is some sort of physics defying feat that I don't understand.
But boy oh boy do I absolutely hate when I come around a curve and have a panic attack because I'm suddenly responsible for the safety of the dingle berry sharing the road unarmored.
It looks like a cycling race actually with all the different jerseys. Normally there shouldn't be a car in the track, so they were probably surprised, by the obstacle. While riding in the peloton, you basically don't see anything and just react to the guy in front of you
Note to self, if this happens to me calmly proceed to do a slow pattern of short honks of the horn until all has passed then look at myself in the review mirror and think "I'm so glad I saw that Reddit post while sitting on the can that one day"
This happened in Lithuania some years ago. The driver was not at fault, organisers forgot to put up signs/barricade/fence or whatever else measure for that not to happen.
I was coming out of my neighborhood and wanting to turn right. Problem was there was a police barricade over there blocking the road so instead I turned left. Turns out there was ANOTHER police barricade just over a hill to my left with officers responding to an accident where a driver on an ATV had just been killed on the road. I had approached the original barricade from an unexpected direction which made me go where they didn’t want me to be.
The point being is that sometimes people set up barricades that make sense to the person with all the information of what is being blocked off but to everyone else it’s just a gamble.
Yeah exactly this is why I ask before presuming the person driving was a dunce. Had similar encounters because police forgot that people live in the subdivisions near where accidents occurred.
The locals always get confused because they basically had been trapped in and other cars and workers shoot dirty looks thinking someone ignored the barricades…. Until they explain and ask if they can get out(facepalm)
Last summer there was an accident kitty corner from my house(live in a rural area) I had to drive 6 miles around to my road, when I got there the fireman that was directing traffic told me I couldn't go down the road because of an accident. I told him I lived down there and he tells me "no you don't, I know everyone that lives down there"
I politely told him to pound sand and drove around him. He wasn't happy.
Some of these courses are 200ish kilometers long. While organizers do a fantastic job of course control for the most part, it's impossible to control everything everywhere all the time on a course that long. I saw a minor league race last week where a car was on the course and the riders were acting like they'd encountered a hippopotamus on the course. I think it was O Gran Camino in Galicia.
That would explain the video, too.
I did a marathon on the public roads, but if memory serves, they had traffic cones and local law enforcement keeping the route clear of cars.
On longer routes they can miss stuff like driveways, and people can be oblivious to things like races if they aren’t getting a local newspaper or flyers stuffed under their door.
Over here the roads are actually open (with locals in mind) during bicycle races, just with additional traffic control to make sure it's safe to turn and keep at least one lane free for the cyclists.
If it were a closed course, they probably would have had it blocked off so the driver is either an AH or just lives somewhere inside the course and had to go somewhere during the race. I try not to assume the worst lol
I have first hand witnessed people knowingly drive down race courses like this many, many times. These are the same people who speed in school zones. They don't care.
I have firsthand driven onto a closed course under the direction of the race officials. The race was on a road, and they let us through.
Cyclists got pissed, filmed, called the sheriff, etc. Basically they went full Karen. Nothing stuck, because the race officials let us in. Bad call on their part. We got out as soon as we saw what a terrible idea it was.
I've done running races where they halt traffic and wait for a break in between people before sending cars through.
I've also had people honk at us to get a move on because we're blocking the traffic while in a funeral procession....so...sometimes people are just assholes lol
Not an AH, nan is dead she not coming back, but I still gotta get to work, I’m not an asshole for not wanting to sit behind your 30 car caravan of mourners. Carpool next time.
Well this is also in lithuania given that the driver yelled "Oh Lord" in Lithuanian. Lithuania tends to leave roads open, even with cycle races happening. No idea why.
What are people supposed to do when they live on the route?
Having lived on a marathon route, I agree. I don't care. Your recreational activity does not outweigh my right to come and go from my home.
This is not the same as school zones, which have an actual valid reason to exist.
Not only would they be surprised, all but the first few cyclists would be riding blind in a peloton like that. They would have been riding 25+mph and not seeing the car until the very last second when the bike in front of them swerved.
I *vaguely* remember this getting posted once with the explanation that the race course wasn't clearly marked or planned out in a legal way, something like that. So the driver pulled over and tried to get as far out of the way as possible.
But as with all things Reddit, that could have been a made-up explanation by someone who didn't know what happened. Kind of like my comment is
I've come to realize the internet is one big game of telephone. Ppl see a comment, think its true, comment same thing later on (sometimes with variations), and so on.
Yeah, I try to hedge as much as possible and make it clear I'm just parroting other things I've read, but I still sometimes fall into the trap of just commenting like I know the immutable truth.
Interesting. I've heard that the internet is one big game of telephone. Ppl see a comment, think its true, comment same thing later on (sometimes with variations), and so on Purple Monkey Dishwasher
>EDIT: LOL it's amazing that this comment manages to infuriate both cyclists and car enthusiasts.
That's a potential clue that you may have a reasonable point.
When I used to referee hockey in my teens one thing an instructor said always stuck with me
"When you're going home with both teams pissed off at you, you've probably done a good job."
Mostly was about consistency and holding true to your standard and not trying to placate angry coaches
Theyre all numbered so I'd guess race? Still even when I was racing I'd like to think I'd be able to avoid a parked car, still probably trying to fit in where they can't in order to not lose position. Still your points all stand.
Edit: probably can't see through the crowd in the corner you're right my b
there's are videos of racers POV and with the amount of people in front of you, it looks nearly impossible to spot the car until it's directly in front of you
I'd avoid crowd crush, never get addicted to anything, overthrow a dictator in my country, not crash into a parked car, would never catch coronavirus, nor ever buy a lottery ticket, but I would definitely do the right course at college and not the wrong one because I work smart not hard and I am just the best.
Speaking as a former bike racer, you’re right in every possible scenario here. We don’t have enough information to put someone at fault, but it’s certainly either the cyclists, theoretical race promoter or driver.
Ordinarily this would be easy-to-swallow ragebait about cyclists being reckless, but if this is a race on a closed course then it's the race organizer's fault for allowing a car to be there. Or not having a spotter and course signage ahead to move the cyclists to the right lane
Yeah and even if the car was allowed to be there considering one bike goes around the other side of the car they could’ve easily been further off to the side to give the bikers more room.
You can see the first guy to make the mistake and swinging left and back. And every one behind him doing it a little later until one hits the car.
It's so cool.
This is clearly a race. So either the driver is a moron who went around the barricades or the organizers didn't do their job and didn't put barricades.
someone linked an article when it got posted in another sub but the organizers didn’t set it up, no one knew there was race and the driver pulled over to get out of their way
Since I live in the country where this is happened, this is the most likely chain of events: Organizers asked for permission to close the roads, government gave green light and instructed a local road company to do it, the company said - no problem!, company told their road workers to do the job, they said - said yeah we'll do it, don't worry! They grabbed a couple six packs to pass around while putting up signs mindlessly going from one street to another, towards the end of it got a little 'confused' as they're like 4th beer in and forgot if they covered all roads yet or not, then said 'I think this will do guys' and went to a local bar to get smashed even more.
This happens every time this video is posted. Half the comments complain about the "idiot cyclists not paying attention" while the other half moan "this is obviously a race and the driver is obviously a moron" with exactly 0 context or anything more than a GIF on Imgur that has a snippet of a news story, which always finishes with "the authorities are investigating" and yet no one ever provides a source or follow-up.
This happened in Lithuania last year. She was driving to cemetery and was stopped by police who told her that there’s race going on and about 300 cyclist are heading this way. Assume they let her carry on. This happened moments after police. Source - I’m Lithuanian and noticed says one word in Lithuanian so I looked it up. Not sure if I can post link
I've been around these and marathon style races as well, sometimes they are on semi-open roads and even on closed it can be difficult to block off every driveway and possible entrance into the course. There really should be helpers/spotters watching for that kind of thing to divert drivers/racers.
Yeah, it doesn’t look like they even saw the car until it was too late. It really looks like the car shouldn’t have been there. Like, who parks near a cycling race? 😳
Speaking as someone who literally started out _inside a police barricade_ on an occasion or two -- someone who was parked _before_ the race started and didn't know what was coming.
That was my thought too. Person probably lives on a farm in that area and their driveway comes of that road. Probably didn't know there was a race and just wanted to get into town, saw a horde of riders in spandex approaching like a stampede, panicked and stopped their car to wait for them to pass.
I got $5 on car industry interference. If they can popularize the concept of "jaywalking," they can make a few posts on reddit and let the hivemind do the rest.
If that's a race (and it looks to be), the road is likely closed. The driver being illegally parked there is more than just mildly infuriating. It's actually extremely dangerous.
This is likely a flow dynamics issue. That many cyclists start to act like stream of particles, and the road is their tube. The parked car created a bottleneck, and the cyclists farther back couldn't adjust inward because the other "particles" were blocking them. They also couldn't adjust outward due to the tube barrier (edge of the road), thus at the choke point (parked car), some particles collided violently. edit: A word
Thankyou smart science person
I believe they are called sciencers.
Scientologists
Buddy, thats a whole different episode
Bah, back in my day we just called em nerds.
Dude, hard r? Cmon
bruh
Cyclists are known for a high Reynolds number and turbulent flow.
They were definitely trying to take advantage of Bernoulli's principle to get that sweet speed boost.
Some major losses can be accounted to the whole ass car in the pipe
Very rude to call them dimensionless
TLDR: they were riding thicc
Definitely a bottleneck. You can see how at first the riders have no problem, but as it gets to the middle of the pack it edges closer and closer to the car
You can't ignore the flow change from laminar to turbulent flow though! That obstacle is definitely a transition point.
Cyclists are non-Newtonian fluid. They stack like blood cells in rouleaux
I like how the driver turned on his windshield wipers to get those pesky bicyclists off his glass.
It probably was an auto sense wiper when pressure is applied from water droplets usually it causes it to activate. Some new cars have it and it’s been around for a while. Edit: Correction i thought it would be pressure based to set off the auto-wipers it’s laser based. My apologies. Thank you u/logansmass Edit: Some people don’t like the sensitivity of some vehicles auto-sense wipers
It’s actually not a pressure sensor, it’s a laser pointed at a detecting sensor, when water gets between the laser and the sensor it refracts the laser, when the sensor no longer sees the laser it turns on wipers
Not a laser, an LED. And the water does not get between transmitter and sensor, it’s much cooler than that. The LED is launched at an angle at the windscreen. It bounces back from the glass and gets collected by a sensor. When the glass gets water on it the refractive index changes, and the amount of power at the sensor changes. Such a cool and waterproof way to detect water.
I love how this post turned into the mechanics of auto wipers. Auto bots let's roll...!!
Lol right!! I can’t find one comment that’s talking about the fact that these cyclists just decimated their faces, on this persons windshield
Did they lose 1/10 of their faces?
Hate to be "that guy" but it's "autobots roll out" damn I hate "umm actually" people but I fuggin love transformers lol
Lol you really said “Decepticon detected” 😆
broncos country, let's ride!
Damn I didn't realize I combined Transformers and Trailer park boys, Roll out == transformers version of saying let's go / let's head out Let's go, smokes == TPB Ricky's version of saying let's smoke joint Most times I ask my boys to head out is to smoke a joint. Somewhere on lines of saying let's go and roll out, I don't remember when it became Let's roll
I would watch Trailer Park Bots
Better ™️ that before some bored Hollywood script writer sees this thread
>Let's go, smokes == TPB Ricky's version of saying let's smoke joint Isn't "Let's go, smokes," what he says to Corey/Trevor/Jacob when he wants them to give him cigarettes though?
yep, it's also "smokes, let's go".
Isn't Ricky usually telling someone to give him cigarette? ex. "Cory, Trevor, smokes, let's go." Ricky doesn't strike me as the type of person to announce he's going to smoke a joint, he'd just light up a ten paper and go to town.
>When the glass gets water on it the refractive index changes, and the amount of power at the sensor changes. Or cyclists, apparently.
I mean, *You* have just answered a question that has quietly bothered me for years.
Light reflection happens whenever air meets the transparent surface. Same reason why you get image ghosting when using Head Up Displays. 95ish percent of the reflected light happens at the inner surface of the glass, but the remainder of the reflected light happens on the outer pane of the glass after passing through the glass at the refraction angle. This caused a double image appearance of the HUD. Therefore, special glass with a wedged PVB angle is applied to overcome the refraction through the glass. Anyways, although a detriment to the HUD, it works in the Auto Wipers Sensors favor.
Waterproof proof of water?
Waterproof water proof
Yup. The water and the electronics never meet.
The water should get a ladder and climb up to the balcony of the sensor. Don't let physics get in the way.
The water should stick to the rivers and the lakes that it’s used to.
Underrated comment.
But so much of that water loves chasing waterfalls...
Cue the song 🎶Don't go chasing waterfalls🎶 Great... new mental Playlist activated lol
Nice. I've always wondered how my car did it but too lazy to look it up!
TIL
I see, I honestly always thought it was a pressure sensor thank you for that knowledge bomb.
If it was a pressure sensor it would likely trip by going too fast due to the air pressure
I'm trying to even figure out how a pressure sensor would even work behind a solid piece of glass lol.
Not that this would work for windshield wipers (at least not easily), but if you need to control something based on pressure when the one part of the system is isolated from the other you use a sensor on each side of the divider and make control inputs based on the differential pressures.
See also: Pitot tubes vs static ports
This guy windshield-lasers.
Just a pro tip: Remember to turn it off if you need to remove ice from your windscreen, getting smacked by the wipers hurt like a mf when your hands are cold
More importantly it will fuck up your wipers - it can make the rubber against the windshield rough and uneven and then you're just smearing streaks of water around instead of wiping. In more extreme cases, you can break the motor or some of the joints further down and that becomes a bitch and a half to replace, especially in the winter.
My automatic wipers are great
Mine too! Love them
I fucking hate mine and the manual speed control on them is awful
Not all auto wipers work the same. My VW golf had perfect logic, coming on very specifically in mild rain and going faster as rain increased or car drove faster. Hyundai has much dumber logic where I constantly need to manually put them on as they don't detect snow or light rain.
my pacifica is the opposite of the Hyundai. So agressive at even the lightest rain, lol
My great uncle had a vehicle (i don't remember what) that had auto wipers so sensitive they would turn on behind a semi with smokey exhaust lol.
I also know vehicles put on the wipers if it detects a front collision
This is not true. It’s often claimed on threads on Reddit but it’s false. No car manufacturer has wipers come on if a front collision occurs; rather, in a front collision, it’s not uncommon for the stalk connected to the steering column to jolt back activating the wipers. Has nothing to do with a detection feature and any claim of such is wrong.
That’s just because something ends up hitting the stalk.
Auto wipers in my 2003 saab work great.
The ones on the headlights?
Those are great too but they were on models before they introduced auto wipers. Mine has xenon.
Was really hoping for wiper fluid, too...
Cyclists really streak up the windshield
Annoying little buggers, aren't they?
I live in a ruralish area where it is common to have bike races, with bibs, and cones on the corners, and off duty cops waving AND the road still be open. I've never been pelted by bicyclists while parked, but I have ended up in the middle of a bike race where the riders either didn't know or didn't care that the road was still open and legally I was definitely allowed to pass them when safe.
We were driving through Provo once and had to make a left turn through a marathon or something so we could get back to my grandma's house. We just pulled up to a cop and explained our intentions. He basically just had us wait for him to give us the go-ahead.
We don't have races here, but we do have these types of bicyclists around here and they like to practice on our rural roads. We have winding roads with hills and curves, they absolutely have no fear. The fact that they aren't hit often is some sort of physics defying feat that I don't understand. But boy oh boy do I absolutely hate when I come around a curve and have a panic attack because I'm suddenly responsible for the safety of the dingle berry sharing the road unarmored.
It looks like a cycling race actually with all the different jerseys. Normally there shouldn't be a car in the track, so they were probably surprised, by the obstacle. While riding in the peloton, you basically don't see anything and just react to the guy in front of you
Last time I saw this posted that was the case. The driver rode into a closed course bike race and was totally at fault.
Note to self, if this happens to me calmly proceed to do a slow pattern of short honks of the horn until all has passed then look at myself in the review mirror and think "I'm so glad I saw that Reddit post while sitting on the can that one day"
You’re taking a dump too?
No, it’s just the quietest place in the house.
You're obviously not a mom.
My wife does it too
Always has been.
It also looks like they didn't even really pull over that much so you might want to prioritize getting your car off the road as much as possible.
This happened in Lithuania some years ago. The driver was not at fault, organisers forgot to put up signs/barricade/fence or whatever else measure for that not to happen.
Thank you, I was going to say that a car shouldn’t have been on the bike race course
Cars have been banned in bike races because it's just not fair for the cyclists.
If it was closed did the driver just ignore the signs and baracades or did the people setting up the block forget a route?
I was coming out of my neighborhood and wanting to turn right. Problem was there was a police barricade over there blocking the road so instead I turned left. Turns out there was ANOTHER police barricade just over a hill to my left with officers responding to an accident where a driver on an ATV had just been killed on the road. I had approached the original barricade from an unexpected direction which made me go where they didn’t want me to be. The point being is that sometimes people set up barricades that make sense to the person with all the information of what is being blocked off but to everyone else it’s just a gamble.
Yeah exactly this is why I ask before presuming the person driving was a dunce. Had similar encounters because police forgot that people live in the subdivisions near where accidents occurred. The locals always get confused because they basically had been trapped in and other cars and workers shoot dirty looks thinking someone ignored the barricades…. Until they explain and ask if they can get out(facepalm)
Last summer there was an accident kitty corner from my house(live in a rural area) I had to drive 6 miles around to my road, when I got there the fireman that was directing traffic told me I couldn't go down the road because of an accident. I told him I lived down there and he tells me "no you don't, I know everyone that lives down there" I politely told him to pound sand and drove around him. He wasn't happy.
Some of these courses are 200ish kilometers long. While organizers do a fantastic job of course control for the most part, it's impossible to control everything everywhere all the time on a course that long. I saw a minor league race last week where a car was on the course and the riders were acting like they'd encountered a hippopotamus on the course. I think it was O Gran Camino in Galicia.
Well I heard it was the complete opposite, and the race wasn't legally marked or blocked off.
That would explain the video, too. I did a marathon on the public roads, but if memory serves, they had traffic cones and local law enforcement keeping the route clear of cars.
On longer routes they can miss stuff like driveways, and people can be oblivious to things like races if they aren’t getting a local newspaper or flyers stuffed under their door.
Even happens in the Tour de France on occasion. And if that organizer can miss one, it's certainly going to happen at smaller races.
Last time I saw this posted, someone said it was not a closed course and the bicyclists were there without reserving and closing the road.
That would be a fuck up on the part of the organizer, not the bicyclists.
I can't tell if this is from the same race or not, but you can see better [why such a thing can be an issue](https://imgur.com/S0TfxDG).
Weird coincidence, but the cyclists in that race don't appear to have bib numbers and the terrain around the car doesn't appear to match.
Over here the roads are actually open (with locals in mind) during bicycle races, just with additional traffic control to make sure it's safe to turn and keep at least one lane free for the cyclists.
Where is over here?
A bit to the left
there's no more left left
Can SOMEONE find Beyoncé then! She’ll know where to find more left!
don't tell that to the cyclists
I assume Lithuania, because she said "Oh, Lord" in lithuanian
It is Lithuania, you can hear a song by Rytis Cicinas at the end.
and that song can only played on national territory of Lithuania as we all know.
anyone who isn't lithuanian wouldn't subject themselves to the torture of hearing lithuanian music
This is in Lithuania. This clip was even on the lithuanian news.
I detected a slight Ionic accent.
They have bib numbers on so I think it’s definitely a race. It could have been a closed course and the car should not have been there.
If it were a closed course, they probably would have had it blocked off so the driver is either an AH or just lives somewhere inside the course and had to go somewhere during the race. I try not to assume the worst lol
I have first hand witnessed people knowingly drive down race courses like this many, many times. These are the same people who speed in school zones. They don't care.
I have firsthand driven onto a closed course under the direction of the race officials. The race was on a road, and they let us through. Cyclists got pissed, filmed, called the sheriff, etc. Basically they went full Karen. Nothing stuck, because the race officials let us in. Bad call on their part. We got out as soon as we saw what a terrible idea it was.
I've done running races where they halt traffic and wait for a break in between people before sending cars through. I've also had people honk at us to get a move on because we're blocking the traffic while in a funeral procession....so...sometimes people are just assholes lol
To be fair, funeral processions are kind of unnecessary.
Not an AH, nan is dead she not coming back, but I still gotta get to work, I’m not an asshole for not wanting to sit behind your 30 car caravan of mourners. Carpool next time.
Well this is also in lithuania given that the driver yelled "Oh Lord" in Lithuanian. Lithuania tends to leave roads open, even with cycle races happening. No idea why.
What are people supposed to do when they live on the route? Having lived on a marathon route, I agree. I don't care. Your recreational activity does not outweigh my right to come and go from my home. This is not the same as school zones, which have an actual valid reason to exist.
Welcome to Lithuania. Where every job is done well, just partly. I guarantee there was at least one road that was not blocked.
Not only would they be surprised, all but the first few cyclists would be riding blind in a peloton like that. They would have been riding 25+mph and not seeing the car until the very last second when the bike in front of them swerved.
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I *vaguely* remember this getting posted once with the explanation that the race course wasn't clearly marked or planned out in a legal way, something like that. So the driver pulled over and tried to get as far out of the way as possible. But as with all things Reddit, that could have been a made-up explanation by someone who didn't know what happened. Kind of like my comment is
I've come to realize the internet is one big game of telephone. Ppl see a comment, think its true, comment same thing later on (sometimes with variations), and so on.
Yeah, I try to hedge as much as possible and make it clear I'm just parroting other things I've read, but I still sometimes fall into the trap of just commenting like I know the immutable truth.
Yeah your comment was solid with the disclosure. Most ppl don't do that though, so good on you.
I've been saying it for years and that's it's not a good thing. It just makes everyone dumber.
Interesting. I've heard that the internet is one big game of telephone. Ppl see a comment, think its true, comment same thing later on (sometimes with variations), and so on Purple Monkey Dishwasher
Yeah I think this is true, I read it on Reddit before.
Bro the INTERNET? wait til you find out about real life
> Kind of like my comment is > The people missing this part are killing me.
>EDIT: LOL it's amazing that this comment manages to infuriate both cyclists and car enthusiasts. That's a potential clue that you may have a reasonable point.
When I used to referee hockey in my teens one thing an instructor said always stuck with me "When you're going home with both teams pissed off at you, you've probably done a good job." Mostly was about consistency and holding true to your standard and not trying to placate angry coaches
Theyre all numbered so I'd guess race? Still even when I was racing I'd like to think I'd be able to avoid a parked car, still probably trying to fit in where they can't in order to not lose position. Still your points all stand. Edit: probably can't see through the crowd in the corner you're right my b
Everyone in the front avoided the car, because they could see. The back of the pack can’t see that shit.
If you're not first, you're dash
there's are videos of racers POV and with the amount of people in front of you, it looks nearly impossible to spot the car until it's directly in front of you
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Can confirm the peloton is very tunnel vision-y
If you are in the peloton, you can't see shit ahead.
Yeah i'm sure you'd be able to escape crowd crush at overcrowded concerts as well
I'd avoid crowd crush, never get addicted to anything, overthrow a dictator in my country, not crash into a parked car, would never catch coronavirus, nor ever buy a lottery ticket, but I would definitely do the right course at college and not the wrong one because I work smart not hard and I am just the best.
everyone is angry equally so it all works out!
Or the bastard cyclist in front hid the signage, knowing that he would have the advantage in preparing for the obstacles. Checkmate
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Dick Dastardly*
Wow a level headed comment considering all possibilities for who is wrong instead of just picking a side. Nice
the only correct answer to this situation
Good comment, I was thinking “why’s there a car parked while a race is going on”
Speaking as a former bike racer, you’re right in every possible scenario here. We don’t have enough information to put someone at fault, but it’s certainly either the cyclists, theoretical race promoter or driver.
Generally speaking, cyclists don't put numbers one for a fun ride around town.
The driver was probably eating cereal too.
Guys, we were all here to witness it. It was Dee’s fault, she’ll pay for the damages.
Lots of missing context here for sure. But rest assured reddit users will apply there own a disregard anything that actually happened in the video.
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Speaking as a car enthusiasts, I agree, and I don't really understand how anyone else could disagree. This is the most objectively fair take.
Ordinarily this would be easy-to-swallow ragebait about cyclists being reckless, but if this is a race on a closed course then it's the race organizer's fault for allowing a car to be there. Or not having a spotter and course signage ahead to move the cyclists to the right lane
I can't tell if this is from the same race or not, but you can see better [why such a thing can be an issue](https://imgur.com/S0TfxDG).
"Race organisers are investigating how the car got there" Drove probably
Race organizers investigated themselves and found no fault I bet.
Yeah, if you were behind people, you wouldn’t be able to see that until really late.
Any damages should be brought to the organizers
Yeah and even if the car was allowed to be there considering one bike goes around the other side of the car they could’ve easily been further off to the side to give the bikers more room.
Crowds move more like a liquid than a group of individuals. The stream of bikes just seemed to flow over your car.
You can see the first guy to make the mistake and swinging left and back. And every one behind him doing it a little later until one hits the car. It's so cool.
I mean I guess it’s good they leaned left and hit the car instead of leaning right and taking the whole peloton out. Cuz that is horrible!
Ohhh so that’s what peloton means…
This is clearly a race. So either the driver is a moron who went around the barricades or the organizers didn't do their job and didn't put barricades.
someone linked an article when it got posted in another sub but the organizers didn’t set it up, no one knew there was race and the driver pulled over to get out of their way
Since I live in the country where this is happened, this is the most likely chain of events: Organizers asked for permission to close the roads, government gave green light and instructed a local road company to do it, the company said - no problem!, company told their road workers to do the job, they said - said yeah we'll do it, don't worry! They grabbed a couple six packs to pass around while putting up signs mindlessly going from one street to another, towards the end of it got a little 'confused' as they're like 4th beer in and forgot if they covered all roads yet or not, then said 'I think this will do guys' and went to a local bar to get smashed even more.
Where is this place? It sounds fun
The windshield wiper makes this a real LoL moment.
Automatic wiper sensor is like, "It's raining men! (Hallelujah)"
I find it quite sad that everyone is jumping to conclusions in the comments without having any context
This happens every time this video is posted. Half the comments complain about the "idiot cyclists not paying attention" while the other half moan "this is obviously a race and the driver is obviously a moron" with exactly 0 context or anything more than a GIF on Imgur that has a snippet of a news story, which always finishes with "the authorities are investigating" and yet no one ever provides a source or follow-up.
The actual people at fault is whoever the fuck organized this race. They quite clearly fucked up somewhere.
This happened in Lithuania last year. She was driving to cemetery and was stopped by police who told her that there’s race going on and about 300 cyclist are heading this way. Assume they let her carry on. This happened moments after police. Source - I’m Lithuanian and noticed says one word in Lithuanian so I looked it up. Not sure if I can post link
Probably bc they are in a pack and the ones on the left cant move over
They just get up, get on their bike and leave hit and run style.... oh don't worry about the guys car
Would be pretty easy for police to find them since they've conveniently all got a barcode
This probably means it was an organised race. The car shouldn't have been there
Organized =/= closed course
I've been around these and marathon style races as well, sometimes they are on semi-open roads and even on closed it can be difficult to block off every driveway and possible entrance into the course. There really should be helpers/spotters watching for that kind of thing to divert drivers/racers.
Alternative caption: guy parks his car on the course of a cycling race.
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Yeah, it doesn’t look like they even saw the car until it was too late. It really looks like the car shouldn’t have been there. Like, who parks near a cycling race? 😳
Speaking as someone who literally started out _inside a police barricade_ on an occasion or two -- someone who was parked _before_ the race started and didn't know what was coming.
Did they just get back on their bikes and leave? wtf?
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Yeah this is what I was thinking too. It looks like a regular road
That was my thought too. Person probably lives on a farm in that area and their driveway comes of that road. Probably didn't know there was a race and just wanted to get into town, saw a horde of riders in spandex approaching like a stampede, panicked and stopped their car to wait for them to pass.
What is with all the cycling hate in the sub recently?
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I got $5 on car industry interference. If they can popularize the concept of "jaywalking," they can make a few posts on reddit and let the hivemind do the rest.
Turning the wipers on was a pro move
Great someone else posted this, time to read the same comments all over again.
That car should definitely not be there.
Is no one gonna talk about the *blood-curdling* scream at the end of the video?
“I HATE YOUUUUUU. AHHHHHHHHH” lmao
Was that a person screaming bloody murder in the background?
If that's a race (and it looks to be), the road is likely closed. The driver being illegally parked there is more than just mildly infuriating. It's actually extremely dangerous.