We all have stories. Stories of our time out in the world, minding our own business, living and loving life on two wheels, and then it all gets upended by someone who isn’t paying attention to their surroundings. It doesn’t have to be catastrophic in its outcome, but the prevalence of these situations and events feel ever-increasing in their regularity.
In a world as fast-paced as ours, where we’re constantly connected to some device or another, people, everyone, just aren’t paying enough attention to anything around them. Their attention is…elsewhere.
As motorcyclists, we know this. We watch out for this. That’s why, while driver’s education teaches car drivers that they should be scanning two to three cars ahead, we motorcyclists are scanning 15 to 20 cars ahead. And we’re turning our heads through corners. We’re watching out far ahead and all around because we have to be ready to react to constantly changing conditions and drivers who just don’t care about keeping their eyes on the road. We’re hawks in a sea of drunken drone pilots.
