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Articles [0][1] cite a study [2] that people driving cars and bicycles admit to breaking the law at the same rate. I've just now found the study itself, so will be reading it's additional findings.

[0]: https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-07-18/survey-finds-bicyclis... [1]: https://usa.streetsblog.org/2017/03/16/busting-the-myth-of-t... [2]: https://jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/article/view/871/875

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Even if you don’t contest the results of those studies (I don’t) you have to admit the consequences are dramatically different.

Exactly. One of those types of vehicles cause hundreds of deaths per day. The other causes a miniscule fraction of that. Further, when running a red light, one of those vehicles has greatly-reduced visibility, and greatly-increased consequences for being wrong.

The question is: shouldn't one of those vehicles be held to a higher standard?

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