A cop told me that in surveys he had seen, over 50% of the people do not see flashing lights or hear sirens. Now that is scary! Ride invisible with a BIG horn.
The issue, of course, is preoccupied drivers doing everything but driving. The city of Austin announced it is going to try to come up with a solution to the preoccupied driver problem. I shudder to think what that will be.
Their last really bright(this is the honest truth)idea was to buy a bunch of bicycles, paint them bright yellow and leave them around town for anyone to use. The theory was if you needed a bicycle to go somewhere, you got on one of these and rode it to your destination and left it there for the next person.
Any 5 year year could have told the city council how this would turn out. Less than 60 days and they were all gone.
