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you do get a say because you also impact traffic safety - which is why that system should be installed on bikes as well

Perhaps, but drunk bike riders cause about as much mayhem as two drunk people fighting in a bar. Whereas drunk drivers are capable of easily killing someone without malice.

I write this as someone who has both been hit by a drunk bike rider and unintentionally hurt in a bar fight that wasn’t even involving me.

You've clearly never seen the damage a person can cause to the driver when hit by a car. If a person is in the road and intoxicated they can still cause injury or death.

Yes, but they generally don’t. And yes I’ve seen a bike rider t-boned and tossed in the air before. I’m well aware of the carnage from crashes.

a drunk bike rider can cause a sober car driver to swerve into the opposite lane or pedestrians

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