Another biker here. It's true that as a motorcycle rider you're completely invisible: not just that you should imagine yourself invisible -- you really are. Nobody in a car has the faintest clue that there can be non-car vehicles on the road, probably next to them when they change lanes, etc. If you think they can see you, you're dead. BUT I like it that way: it's cool to be invisible, and it's also safer. Car driver…
> [...] it's also safer. Car drivers don't understand bikes: when they see you they have all sort of weird reactions [...] I don’t understand how people reacting unpredictably could be safer. If your choices are (1) drive a car and other drivers behave as you would expect or when they don’t at least you are in a similar vehicle with seat belts and some shock absorption, or (2) drive a motorcycle, and other drivers ei…
Re: Startups and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
#11I think he meant that if you consider yourself invisible as a motorcycle you can drive safer, not that driving an invisible vehicle is safer than driving a visible one.