What's this about polarised sunglasses being bad for cycling (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 weeks ago by doublepepperoni@hexbear.net to c/urbanism@hexbear.net

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Finally got a pair of prescription sunglasses for summer, but apparently polarised lenses are potentially dangerous for cyclists according to Redditors due to light playing weird tricks on you. On my first day wearing them the only interesting thing I noticed was my phone screen shimmering like a foil trading card

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[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago

Nah don't listen to reddit. They kept saying you shouldn't cycle without a helmet after drinking a pint of vodka but I was doing that like 3 nights a week in Wuhan and I turned out ok.

[-] TrustedFeline@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago

idk if you're joking or not, since I used to be about that life until some unfortunate drunk biking accidents. Fortunately no head injuries (that I remember...), but that was pure luck. wear a helmet, and know that drunk biking is still really dangerous.

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

I was joking, I only did it a couple times. I usually don't get drunk due to my alcohol tolerance, so it was tipsy. Rental bikes don't come with helmets so I was winging it. Eventually I was getting taxis since they were dirt cheap

[-] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago

Reddit is full of Americans and Americans don't have proper bike infrastructure. There is a cultural chasm between the Dutch who think biking with a helmet is ridiculous and Americans who think biking without a helmet is ridiculous, and that comes from Americans thinking a line of paint is bicycle infrastructure.

I'm not familiar with how good cycling infrastructure is in China, but given their ginormous roads, i suspect it's closer to America, and so biking without a helmet would be reckless