On 1/31/20 6:52 PM, Joe Bernard wrote:
"Be extremely careful at intersections. You're not where drivers expect you to be..." I've found this to be true as a pedestrian, too. Drivers just don't seem to expect anyone to be walking!
Maybe, but it's far worse when you're moving at three times the speed of a pedestrian. Consider a + intersection. You're driving, heading north. You look right, clear. Look left, clear. In the one second or less between looking right and this instant there's no way a pedestrian could possibly have gotten to the intersection, so you hit the gas and voila, there's the cyclist in front of your grill. How'd that happen? In that second or less, a cyclist moving at 3X the speed of a pedestrian -- say 12-14 mph, not at all extraordinary speed for a cyclist -- could easily travel the 10 yards from "there's nothing there" to "hood ornament".
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