There's weeks where rain a couple of days, but then months were there's no rain at all. I would take my bike everytime because I prefer to use the rain clothes 4 hours of a year that spend an entire week of the year stuck in traffic.

Riding bike in the rain turned out to be one of my favorite things when I figured out how to not suck at it. Ponchos are no good. Waterproof coats and pants make all the difference.

If anything is a challenge, it's high winds and places with harsh winters. What we really need is more economical enclosed vehicles that bridge the gap between bikes and cars.

For range, there is public transit, and it's a good option overall for when bike rides are not feasible!

You sound like somebody who hasn't touched a bike since childhood, if ever.

No, cars can easily be used in much worse weather than bikes.

But should you? Driving even just in rain makes your car significantly more dangerous, especially if you're dumb enough to drive at high speeds. Besides, I've biked in some pretty extreme weather, including a blizzard that constantly blasted ice at me so much I had to keep my hand in front of my face the whole time. Was I in danger? Probably, but there's still not actually that much difference between weather that bicyclists should avoid, and weather that motorists should avoid.

The biggest difference being how much danger the latter poses to others in addition to the driver.

Worse. It may sound surprising, but in a traffic accident being inside a car protects you more than just having a helmet.

You're so well protected in your little bubble... unless your little shelter is smaller than the monstrous trucks that are on the roads now days. Now you're pretty much in the same boat as the bicyclist, there's always a bigger fish. So I guess by your logic we should actually all be driving the largest trucks possible.

And that touches on the crux of the problem. Your overly sheltered lifestyle disconnects you from realities right in front of your face. See in these crash scenarios the bicyclist is likely thinking as much about the safety of who they might be crashing into, as well as their own safety. Usually, yeah yeah assholes are everywhere, but the fact is the bicyclist is significantly less of a danger to both themselves and others.

Motorists are as dissonant as meat eaters. Any leap of logic to avoid confronting that you are part of the fucking problem.

I wonder if that thing is even legal to drive.

The pic I just posted is of a model that likely doesn't even have a motor in it. Of course it's legal to drive. Don't even need a license.