[quote=Birdwatcher][quote=PaulBarnard]See how easy it was. It's not that cyclists are hard to see. It's that motorists are inattentive. We sure went through a lot to get here.
No, this is just more Paul Barnard smug wordplay.
To whit: The drivers are wrong, they don’t find bicycles hard to see, they’re just being inattentive.
or.... Drivers are wrong, bicycles do not present a road hazard to drivers if they ride in a legal manner
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Any time I see the words "hard to see," assuming daylight conditions, it means less likely to steal the attention of a marginally engaged driver.
It means less likely to steal the attention of ANY driver.
I’m familiar with this phenomenon from my years on motorcycles, drivers are less likely to see a motorcycle approaching, so they sometimes pull out in front of one. Happens to every rider. This is why if you’re on a motorcycle and you’re smart, you ride with the headlight on, better yet with a strobe effect. Still can happen anyway.
Whatever the Paul Barnard version is, is irrelevant to the reality on the street of course.
I guess its just a matter of time before you run over a hard to see cyclist.
In my pickup? Could happen, could happen to anyone. They’re called “accidents”.
"...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
