Comments on: Opinion: Dumb Corvette drivers

By: Doug Nash

Doug Nash — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 03:01:06 +0000

I recently had a trades pickup with windowless cap on the box so I put a backup camera on it and ran it to the double DIN dvd radio and used that as my full time rear view mirror. It was not hard to use and took no getting used to. It worked just like a rear view mirror. No excuses, the Vette driver didn’t check his mirrors. The bikers should have been flashing him. Everybody was driving too fast and are lucky to be able to tell the story. Dumb asses all around.

By: MotoMama

MotoMama — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 16:56:13 +0000

Biased.

By: rui

rui — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 15:59:33 +0000

Did you really have to call this article “dumb corvette drivers”? As a vette owner and a motorcyclist both groups get enough grief, though both do have their share of douchebags. Otherwise there’s no excuse, the test driver was the one in the wrong.

By: MG

MG — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 19:29:40 +0000

In reply to Paul.

Lol, you are incorrect. Dumb cager move, forsure. Still, bike is responsible for the road ahead. Keep your distance!

By: edgemaster

edgemaster — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 07:33:05 +0000

In reply to Numbone.

He made a dumb move by driving such a stupid vehicle. Give it a break little boys – it’s 2020, there’s a climate emergency, this old tech and you are just proving to the world that you are immature fools with nothing to offer society.

By: Numbone

Numbone — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 04:01:19 +0000

“he made a dumb move by not signaling his brake”
Really? I think brake lights signal braking.

If all motorcyclists drove with an expectation that cagers don’t do sudden and seemingly irrational things there’d be a lot more motorcyclists injured or killed.

Rule #1. Drive like others don’t see you.
Rule #2 Others don’t see you.

By: My2cents

My2cents — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 23:22:20 +0000

100% the fault of the motorcyclists.

By: Wes

Wes — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 21:43:04 +0000

I like “spirited” riding like anyone else, but in doing so YOU THE RIDER take responsibility for your own safety no matter what unexpected move a driver or even another rider does, and closing down on anyone you have to give them the benefit of the doubt that they may not have expected you to come up so fast since the last mirror check they did. If you’re the kind of rider that thinks everyone is doing you wrong, maybe you should take a hard look in the mirror on how you ride. It was a perfect storm, the riders curious to get a good look at the Vette closed in to have a looksee right at the moment the Vette Test Driver had a brain fart and assumed he was on a semi-closed course and started his U-turn. Everyone is kind of to blame, but I’d say the riders should’ve been more perceptive of the risks in crowding the Vette at speed.