Posts by CyclistVideoEvidence

The Ride of Silence honors fallen cyclists. Cyclists’ Video Evidence prevents collisions, hopefully ending cycling tragedies.   A Ride of Silence serves a number of purposes.  For many, it is part of their grieving process.  That was why it was started in 2003, and this is important to remember.  My focus on the advocacy side…

We are proud that Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley co-sponsored our Alameda County Town Halls and especially appreciative of his 11/1/18 Town Hall words of support and commitment to donating to help sustain our work.  You can watch and listen to his comments in this video.

On the eve of the 17th annual Ride of Silence this short video documents law enforcement reflexively rejecting cyclists’ harrowing criminal near miss incident reports where cyclists were inches from being run over by speeding multi thousand-pound vehicles.  It also shares our legal precedents for successfully prosecuting criminal near miss incidents that all cyclists can…

Teaming with the Ride of Silence to end cycling tragedies   The Ride of Silence honors fallen cyclists. Cyclists’ Video Evidence prevents collisions, hopefully ending cycling tragedies.   The 17th annual international Ride of Silence will take place in 23 days, at 373 Locations World Wide, 47 U.S. States, 20 Countries and 7 Continents, with…

Innovative Austin Ride of Silence and CyclistVideoEvidence Model   The Ride of Silence honors fallen cyclists. Cyclists’ Video Evidence prevents collisions, hopefully ending cycling tragedies.   The Austin, Texas Ride of Silence and www.CyclistVideoEvidence.com have created an innovative model that can be copied by all other Rides of Silence participating in the worldwide ride on…

One of Uber’s “autonomous” Volvo XC90 sport utility vehicles travelling about 40 mph struck and killed Elaine Herzberg, who was walking her bike across a street in Tempe, Arizona. Uber corporation will not be held criminally liable, instead Uber will be allowed to shift the blame to “the Uber back-up driver” of Uber’s “autonomous” SUV.…

“The Global status report on road safety 2018, launched by World Health Organization in December 2018, highlights that the number of annual road traffic deaths has reached 1.35 million. Road traffic injuries are now the leading killer of people aged 5-29 years. The burden is disproportionately borne by pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists.” “More than half…

Our mission is to increase the number of cyclists who feel safe and confident riding on the roads yet near misses and perceived risk are justifiably the top reasons cyclists stop cycling and potential cyclists don’t start. To give cyclists the confidence to ride on the roads we encourage them to always ride with a…

I live in the suburban wasteland of North Austin where I have been a commuter cyclist for the last 12 years, and car free for the last 9 years.  While there is some cycling infrastructure in this area, there are also a lot of high speed arterial roads and plenty of impatient distracted drivers.  I…

Since we only hear about collisions involving autonomous vehicles we wonder how many have near misses?  This article hints that there are a lot of unreported near misses. “A manager at Uber sent an email to senior executives raising concerns about the risks of self-driving vehicle programme – just five days before an Uber vehicle…