IDGAF if a 'fire member is POd at me for holding motorists accountable for a standard of attention. Let's play with the "hard to see" cop out, and make no mistake about it, it's a cover for not paying attention. In those thousands of miles of riding you have done, you have ridden roads where dozens if not hundreds of motorists have seen you and taken proper action. Had one not seen you, what was it that magically made you "hard to see" to that driver? Hint. inattention.
It doesn’t matter what you GAF about or not, humans are innately fallible, which is why pilots have checklists, and why even larger and easier-to-see slow-moving vehicles are required to have conspicuous lights and large red, reflective triangles. This is because such vehicles pose a significant collision risk to other vehicles moving at usual highway soeeds.
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It's good to finally get you to acknowledge that a pedestrian's "right of way" is not absolute.
Are you seriously suggesting that a hike/bike trail is the same, either actually or in the eyes of the law, as a public roadway?
Hike/bike trails were created to give both cyclists and pedestrians a space AWAY from the hazards of public roadways
On a hike/bike trail it is the cyclists impinging silently upon the pedestrians, often from behind, the cyclist who has the simple opportunity to slow down or stop. This is why pedestrians on such paths have the right of way.
Once again I will observe that the majority of cyclists on such paths, since so many of them are d$cks, will fly by pedestrians in a totally inconsiderate manner.
Which is part of the reason so many dislike cyclists.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
