Also, only like 50% of cars stop for those stop signs!

edit: damn it! I typed and submitted the comment RIGHT BEFORE he said it in the video!

Umm that red car was going WAY over the speed limit... But the cop did run the stop sign without having any emergency lights going too.

I hear "Alto su barco...Alto su barco ahora"

Poor Spanish for...
High (or upward?) your boat...High (or upward?) your boat now. (Telling them to surface)

There's also a good chance he was trying to say "stop your boat...Stop your boat now"....Alto is what's on Mexican stop signs....but as a noun.

Alto is not a verb from my recollection.

I’m shocked the cop didn’t try and say the cyclist ran into him and blew the stop sign or something. So, at least the cop was professional (or inexperienced) enough to admit his guilt and not try to screw the cyclist over. That’s going to be an expensive replacement though. Looks like an upper end bike, with Di2 (electronic shifting $$$), and carbon wheels, which will probably need to be replaced as well (at least the front). I’d say that bike could be $5k-$8k. This is why I’ve started riding with a video camera front and rear. You just never know when you might need clear evidence, especially as a cyclist.

That intersection has big rounded corners. I'd bet that a lot of people stop beyond the stop sign to see down the street without obstructions... and that's probably why the cop was parked there, to issue tickets at an intersection with a known design flaw.

Nothing wrong with the officer pulling him over. Dude was a full SUV length past the stop sign. If someone was coming from the officer's direction, turning left, it would have impeded their progress. Not saying they still couldn't have made the turn, or it would have been dangerous or anything, the signs are there for a reason. The stop was probably more to see if this was a dui, but he had reason to stop him. Just be cool, don't be an ass, and probably would have gotten a warning and let go, unless he has a long history of infractions...then he deserved it.

Right? It goes from, "oh no, this is going to end badly", to "well the stop sign saved him", to "oh shit" and then "oh shit" to "I guess it did."

I agree with Mass Bike that the truck driver was responsible. Not sure that he should be criminally charged, that's a really big hammer to use on someone that almost certainly did not intend any harm. But he wasn't even cited, although he left the scene. He called the Boston police many hours later, from New Jersey.

That said, I would advise any cyclists to avoid ever putting themselves in the position that Dr Kurmann found herself in. It is dangerous to ride beside large vehicles with limited visibility, as we see. Also good to note that semi trucks frequently swing left to set up a right turn -- I don't believe she realized the danger she was in until the truck was close to actually passing in front of her.

The symbol in the middle lane is a "sharrow", which really indicates that the middle lane is not a bike lane. The sharrow is supposed to indicate to motorists that bicycles may be expected in the lane, and to remind cyclists that they are allowed to use it. The Boston police report gets this wrong, irresponsibly making the driving public stupider. At the time of the crash the right lane was used as a turn lane, and there was a bus stop just before the crash site, making it likely that cyclists would use the middle lane.

It's fun to say that you never trust anyone, but that can't literally be true. For example, I trust thousands of drivers standing at red lights or stop signs not to charge out and run me over. It would be almost impossible to move in traffic without relying on most drivers to do the right thing most of the time.

In US when school bus offload kids they have foldable stop sign where cars on both sides of the road must yeld to it.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/3Qlh3VQp_YI/maxresdefault.jpg
Kids should cross the road IN FRONT of the bus and driver must wait for them to finish crossing.

The amount of bikes I see running red, and blowing through stop signs, using no hand signals, I say good... Maybe now at least one person has learned and more will learn from this incident... I hate to see people get hurt, but if you don't follow the rules, you bring it on yourself, who can help the ignorant?

...Cars do the same true, but not as often

I see this every morning while dropping my kid off at school. Parents texting while sitting at stop signs or driving through the school zone with their heads down (there are three crosswalks and LOTS of kids, so that's even scarier). I also see this a lot as a cyclist. Usually when I see an oncoming car slowly drifting into in my lane it's generally someone with their head down and, I assume, looking at their phone.

People are so stupid...

How do you know his mom is open to the air? My mom is in a plastic container waiting for us to scatter her remains in a sentimental location. Even if she was alive she would be one average target amongst 400 million. The WTC was one of a half dozen PRIME targets in the US on 9/11. The Hyperloop, on completion would become THE PRIME target in the US, not just for ISIS or Al Quaeda but for every nutjob who wanted to attract attention to himself. Hell, you'd probaly have rednecks out hunting taking potshots at it like it was a stop sign.

That being said, I'm still in favor of doing the research because even if Hyperloop never materializes, the research will inevitably have positive spinoffs. We should always dream big.

Stop sign says stop!

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fake. moving car headlights in background disappear after stop sign at 0:19.