Most people have considered, although few have gone into further detail about how learning to ride a bike is similar, yet different in many ways from learning to drive a motor vehicle. The similarities can be seen in people who spend a long period of time without practicing the skill of driving, and then getting back behind the wheel. Also, both skills can be effected by alcohol. in a more negative light, when an accident happens on a bike as opposed to an accident in a car, the results could range from a scratch or bruise to broken bones, paralyzation, or even death.




First off, most people know how to ride a bike, yet not a high amount of people actually take time out of their daily lives to keep on practicing. This is because for the majority of people, once they learn to ride a bike, they never forget. The same rule applies to driving a car; once its learned, its never forgotten. Sure, there are people who have licenses, but still never follow the rules of the road, but this is because of their own mindsets and bad habits. If you could forget how to drive a car, you would be retested every time you renew your license. Also, there are drivers who move somewhere, like for example new york city, in which they don't need to own a car due to all of the public transportation there. When they want to go visit someone who lives outside of the city, they generally drive to them with no trouble. This is because once you achieve your driving skills, they stay stored in the back of your head. In actuality, if one is to ride a bike in streets, they will find themselves to be following the same rules as a car, that is with the exception of the speed limit. this is because if someone is on a bike, they cant be expected to be flowing right along with traffic. With the exception of the speed, bikers are expected to do many things just as a car would be, like stopping at stop signs, signaling when you are about to make a turn and even staying in your lane, which in this case would be the section furthest to the right. This may actually sound pretty silly, but If you ride a bike drunk you actually will be charged just as a person driving a motor vehicle would be: with a DUI. This is because if you're riding a bike drunk, say, going down a hill in which you will pick up speed, you have a high potential of making a bad mistake, leading to a bad accident in which you could receive a terrible injury, or even death.




Operating a motor vehicle, even though you have a structure around you, is no fun and games. If, say, the brakes on your bikes fail, for whatever reason, theres still hope that you can stop by dragging your foot on the ground, but if your car brakes fail, especially on a red light, you're in a load of trouble, and headed towards a potentially deadly situation. There are many scenarios in which someone riding a bike and someone driving a car can do exactly the same thing, but have completely different outcomes. One is if the driver is distracted by their phone and hits a person. The person on the bike might inflict a few bruises or a minor fracture in the worst case. However, the person in the car could easily cause major life changing injuries, like multiple serious fractures, paralyzation, or even death! Just imagine the outcome of being hit by a 3000 pound machine! The results are surely deadly and life risking. Drunk driving is also another issue. According to the article (Looking back: where did drunk driving laws originate?) "It's such a big issue in fact, that the government started cracking down on it since 1910, with new york being the first state to pass a law against it". Few people know that the first drunk driving arrest actually happened in 1897, on september 10th, to be exact, 13 years before any sort of law was passed to prohibit driving under the influence. Police had no way of knowing if any drivers were drunk until the year 1936, when a twenty five year old man named Dr. Rolla Harger invented a primitive form of the present day breathalyzer.




To conclude, riding a bike and driving a motor vehicle are comparable to bickering siblings. This is because they are very alike, yet different at the same time mainly due to the similarities in the actual process of driving, while also putting in effect the magnitudes of injuries one would receive if they were to get into an accident in either one.