Letters: Wearing earbuds on the road is dangerous distraction

I am concerned about the practice of wearing earbuds or headphones while riding a bike, a skateboard, or driving a car or even a Coast Mountain bus. A young cyclist swerved in front of my car recently and stopped on the green-painted pavement, her head gently bobbing to the sound from the earbuds plugged into both ears. If I were a distracted driver, I might have plowed right into her, but she was blithely oblivious to the 1,800 kg vehicle behind her. BikeSense BC states that headphones “a