Politicians in the Bay Area want to remove bike lanes from the Richmond-San Rafael bridge because they are worried about traffic congestion.
Cyclists say removing these bike lanes will put them in danger.
https://richmondside.org/2025/08/05/richmond-san-rafael-bridge-bike-path-final-vote/
https://bikeeastbay.org/rsr2024-2/
During the public hearing, commissioner Karl Hasz was spotted driving his car
So what? Calls suddenly not allowed anymore?
Do you also watch Movies while driving? No hand interaction necessary. Just press play at the start of the ride.
Of course that’s illegal.
Comparing watching a movie with a video call. Good one.
Video call is worse, you’re right nice
Sure sure. A video call without content shared on the screen is worse. Mhm. Please share more of your wisdom.
Mhm. Yeah, sure bud. Wisdom! lmfaoo
Driving distracted in a car of 1000 kg is a surefire way to cause an accident. It’s reckless and antisocial.
LOL
Because not only is he not giving the meeting the full attention that it deserves but also because he’s driving distracted and putting everyone on the road (like these cyclists) in danger.
As someone who constantly has calls on the highway, I cannot follow your arguments.
As someone who drives roughly double the average mileage per year, I don’t find this at all surprising. I see terrible drivers on the road all the time.
Same. And most of them do not have a phone call. So I don’t know what you’re trying to say.
It hasn’t been allowed since 2008. How old are you that 17 years is a sudden event to you?
It should be obvious to everyone that participating in a video call while driving is a dangerous activity
I don’t know where you live, but in most states of the US, hands free phone calls are allowed.
You’re conflating voice calls with video calls. I don’t think Video calls are legal while driving anywhere.
The aspect that makes it illegal is not if a camera is on or not, but if you actively control your phone with a hand. Using Siri? No problem. Video calls? Same. Texting? Big No No. And this makes total sense. I still struggle to understand what the big deal about this is. It is just based on wild assumptions (“he endangers cyclists” or “he is not paying attention”), no more no less. As if this shit was the biggest problem right now. How about you tell your government to not support Israel? Start with solving the real problems first.
Non-resident aggressively commenting on another country’s driving laws then shit talking foreign policy out of nowhere. Bold strategy, Cotton.
The fact is that a video call implies that your eyes are on the video. In this case while driving. Do you see how that’s problematic? Your argument is some weird whataboutism.
You obviously never had a video call while driving and you act like you always look at the road 100% of the time. Hypocrite doing hypocritical things I guess.
Car drivers in the last two years killed about 80,000 people in the US. That is of a similar scale to the murders in Gaza. So your point that this is unimportant is off base.
Imagine being so absolutely unhinged and saying shit like that. This is absolutely mental. Comparing a few car accidents with a genozide. No wonder you have a president like the current.