It's been almost 3 years since I began regularly commuting by bike. After a bad crash in early summer last year, and some close incidents, I purchased an action cam and bolted it to my handlebars. Some of the footage from it has been funny, some frustrating.
However, I'm still trying to decide whether the footage is useful. All that exists after the incident is a short clip. Where someone driving a car does something stupid, followed, usually, by too much loud swearing from me. Every close call just sits on the hard drive of my computer. Where I can watch, rewatch, and only just feed the rage back into myself. Why? I don't know. Is it mentally healthy? Definitely not.
So, with that out there, I'm just going to share a moment from my night time commute. It's probably the closest miss. Mostly because of the speed, and how much I had to actually react to avoid it.
It's those moments, where I wish autonomous cars were here long ago. And then, I'm reminded that even systems designed to keep cars from running into things have problems.
