I don’t get why we should wait until 2030 to make our roads safer with mandatory blind spot technology for trucks.
Tesla cars can scan whole neighborhoods using camera/lidar technology. Similar technology should be used now to make the truck driver aware of active road users nearby.
Until then I fear many more will die from being a victim of a “dodehoekongeval”
As a former trucker and biker i give you this advice:if you see the truckdriver in his rearview mirror, he sees you when you get next to a truck.If not, give the truck priority .It might save your life.
[We moeten het roer omgooien en verkeersveiligheid ernstig nemen. Dat zegt Vlaams minister van Mobiliteit Lydia Peeters in een reactie op het dodelijk fietsongeval met een 15-jarige meisje aan het Don Bosco-college in Hechtel-Eksel. ](https://www.tvl.be/nieuws/doorlezer-lydia-137590)
I’m a bus driver. Two weeks ago a guy on a speedpedelec overtook me on the right on a roundabout. Pretty sure I would be blamed if I’d hit him. But it was not possible to see him at all.
I’m sure a lot of these things can be avoided by making eye contact and not doing unpredictable stuff. I cycle a lot as well and have never blindly taken my right of way.
This should be possible to be solve mostly with current technology. Sensors and software that watches out when they driver doesn’t.
All bike paths should be seperated from the roads. All crossings should have traffic lights that give way to bikes. And all cars and trucks should have technology that detects blind spots.
The technology install in all cars and trucks should be mandatory but refunded by the government.
Cars too since some cars also have a large blindspotbdue to larging framing.
When I was a kid in the 80’s & 90’s, my parents taught me to stay behind trucks / buses and out of their blind spot. I’m teaching my kids the same. Better safe than sorry. And better safe than 3 seconds faster.
Our roads would be a lot safer if we simply acknowledged eachother more on the roads, and if our infrastructure was worth a damn, and well thought out. Instead we get a bunch of fuckers shouting for more fines and punishments, which is never helping with the root of the problem. I have yet to meet the first bus or truck driver who got into his / her vehicule thinking ‘lets’s drive over some cyclists today’. But the pitchfork brigade almost makes it sound like that.
Every lethal accident is a tragedy, for everyone involved.
wat we gaan doen?
blijven inzetten op snelheidscontroles, en verder negeren dat de Belgische weginfrastructuur lamentabel is
Our infrastructure needs a drastic change. It’s still too car-centric in places where the car should have [the last priority](https://i.imgur.com/YcRhgDM.png), not the first.
I always make eye contact with trucj drivers otherwise you gotta assume they didn’t see you.
I’m a bike commuter. People think I’m crazy when I tend to wait rather than just blast ahead when facing with maneuvering lorries, construction workers and farming vehicles. I know what those wheels would do to my head or pelvis, I’ll just wait, thank you.
Can’t tell you how man times I’ll give way to a lorry or choose to just cycle behind it instead of overtaking, only to have a speed pedelec not even brake and blasting right ahead. I’m telling you, those people have a deathwish.
As a bus driver not a day goes by that i’m not afraid of having an accident with a cyclist in my blind spots, especially when i drive the bendy busses, you literally can’t see shit when you turn with one of those
seriously, just let big vehicles pass, unless they’re specifically waiting they probably haven’t seen you
the separated pedestrian/cyclist traffic lights should absolutely become the default
Unpopular opinion: bikers need to learn that the rules also apply to them. The amount of bikers who ignore voorrang van rechts, ignore lights, etc. is staggering. The flow of traffic is safe when it’s predictable and that’s what the rules try to establish.
All 4 accidents are sad affairs for the victims and the truckers and obviously extra care needs to be taken by truck drivers when navigating our complex network of small congested streets. But if everyone just followed traffic rules half of these would’ve once again been avoided.
I live in Haspengouw, and every year its getting worse with bikers and way worser with elder people that drive a electric bike.
Let’s not forget that drivers are also victims in these situations, having to live with the thought you killed somebody is not easy.
As a bus driver, I mostly just can’t understand how they are forcing busses through the center of Leuven neither (smallest and therefore busiest cycling city) would just be better to have only 2 large stations, Gasthuisberg covering all the lines west of Leuven and Station covering everything east of Leuven and larger city buses in between
Many middle class cars (between 30 and 40 K euro) can be (optionally) equipped with a 360° camera system for a decade. Why must it take **so terribly long** to make such a system mandatory on vehicles (trucks) where not only the vision of the driver is far more restricted than in a middle class car/suv but the consequences of an oversight by the driver is often fatal for the vulnerable road users.
This problem has been far too long ignored by the every political party (probably under influence of several lobby groups).
Make camera’s obligated on trucks, how hard can it be? I mean, what is an additional 5k camera option on a 100k truck? Or am I missing something?
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I don’t get why we should wait until 2030 to make our roads safer with mandatory blind spot technology for trucks.
Tesla cars can scan whole neighborhoods using camera/lidar technology. Similar technology should be used now to make the truck driver aware of active road users nearby.
Until then I fear many more will die from being a victim of a “dodehoekongeval”
As a former trucker and biker i give you this advice:if you see the truckdriver in his rearview mirror, he sees you when you get next to a truck.If not, give the truck priority .It might save your life.
[We moeten het roer omgooien en verkeersveiligheid ernstig nemen. Dat zegt Vlaams minister van Mobiliteit Lydia Peeters in een reactie op het dodelijk fietsongeval met een 15-jarige meisje aan het Don Bosco-college in Hechtel-Eksel. ](https://www.tvl.be/nieuws/doorlezer-lydia-137590)
I’m a bus driver. Two weeks ago a guy on a speedpedelec overtook me on the right on a roundabout. Pretty sure I would be blamed if I’d hit him. But it was not possible to see him at all.
I’m sure a lot of these things can be avoided by making eye contact and not doing unpredictable stuff. I cycle a lot as well and have never blindly taken my right of way.
This should be possible to be solve mostly with current technology. Sensors and software that watches out when they driver doesn’t.
All bike paths should be seperated from the roads. All crossings should have traffic lights that give way to bikes. And all cars and trucks should have technology that detects blind spots.
The technology install in all cars and trucks should be mandatory but refunded by the government.
Cars too since some cars also have a large blindspotbdue to larging framing.
When I was a kid in the 80’s & 90’s, my parents taught me to stay behind trucks / buses and out of their blind spot. I’m teaching my kids the same. Better safe than sorry. And better safe than 3 seconds faster.
Our roads would be a lot safer if we simply acknowledged eachother more on the roads, and if our infrastructure was worth a damn, and well thought out. Instead we get a bunch of fuckers shouting for more fines and punishments, which is never helping with the root of the problem. I have yet to meet the first bus or truck driver who got into his / her vehicule thinking ‘lets’s drive over some cyclists today’. But the pitchfork brigade almost makes it sound like that.
Every lethal accident is a tragedy, for everyone involved.
wat we gaan doen?
blijven inzetten op snelheidscontroles, en verder negeren dat de Belgische weginfrastructuur lamentabel is
Our infrastructure needs a drastic change. It’s still too car-centric in places where the car should have [the last priority](https://i.imgur.com/YcRhgDM.png), not the first.
I always make eye contact with trucj drivers otherwise you gotta assume they didn’t see you.
I’m a bike commuter. People think I’m crazy when I tend to wait rather than just blast ahead when facing with maneuvering lorries, construction workers and farming vehicles. I know what those wheels would do to my head or pelvis, I’ll just wait, thank you.
Can’t tell you how man times I’ll give way to a lorry or choose to just cycle behind it instead of overtaking, only to have a speed pedelec not even brake and blasting right ahead. I’m telling you, those people have a deathwish.
As a bus driver not a day goes by that i’m not afraid of having an accident with a cyclist in my blind spots, especially when i drive the bendy busses, you literally can’t see shit when you turn with one of those
seriously, just let big vehicles pass, unless they’re specifically waiting they probably haven’t seen you
the separated pedestrian/cyclist traffic lights should absolutely become the default
Unpopular opinion: bikers need to learn that the rules also apply to them. The amount of bikers who ignore voorrang van rechts, ignore lights, etc. is staggering. The flow of traffic is safe when it’s predictable and that’s what the rules try to establish.
All 4 accidents are sad affairs for the victims and the truckers and obviously extra care needs to be taken by truck drivers when navigating our complex network of small congested streets. But if everyone just followed traffic rules half of these would’ve once again been avoided.
I live in Haspengouw, and every year its getting worse with bikers and way worser with elder people that drive a electric bike.
Let’s not forget that drivers are also victims in these situations, having to live with the thought you killed somebody is not easy.
As a bus driver, I mostly just can’t understand how they are forcing busses through the center of Leuven neither (smallest and therefore busiest cycling city) would just be better to have only 2 large stations, Gasthuisberg covering all the lines west of Leuven and Station covering everything east of Leuven and larger city buses in between
Many middle class cars (between 30 and 40 K euro) can be (optionally) equipped with a 360° camera system for a decade. Why must it take **so terribly long** to make such a system mandatory on vehicles (trucks) where not only the vision of the driver is far more restricted than in a middle class car/suv but the consequences of an oversight by the driver is often fatal for the vulnerable road users.
This problem has been far too long ignored by the every political party (probably under influence of several lobby groups).
Make camera’s obligated on trucks, how hard can it be? I mean, what is an additional 5k camera option on a 100k truck? Or am I missing something?