Say Bike - why cars pull out in front of bikes

[trevor brooker]

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0222905

Long but interesting article, examples used were motorbikes but the principle remains the same.

The conclusion is that a significant proportion of drivers simply forgot seeing the bike, so drive defensively.

 

[MikeS]

I'm part way through reading the research report which looks very good, but would like to chuck in another angle which the researchers did not look at.
Several times I have approached a junction and at the last minute realised a cyclist (not motorcyclist) was crossing my path and I was about to knock him off. I came to realise that this only happened when the cyclist and I were moving at a particular relative speed and at right angles and the cyclist remained hidden for the entire time behind my driver's side door pillar. It's an accident of speed and geometry and I suspect that it hasn't happened with motorcyclists for me because the relative speed is different.
Mike

 

[sjpt]

You can get momentary lapses of perception when what you see isn't what you were expecting. 50 years ago I approached a T junction on a bicycle, stopped, signalled, looked, saw a car coming ... and rode straight in front of it. Luckily the driver was more sensible than me and she managed an emergency stop (thank you to her).

 

[MikeS]

You can get momentary lapses of perception when what you see isn't what you were expecting. 50 years ago I approached a T junction on a bicycle, stopped, signalled, looked, saw a car coming ... and rode straight in front of it. Luckily the driver was more sensible than me and she managed an emergency stop (thank you to her).

haha - that needs publishing on one of the motorbike forums I'm on. A reverse of what usually happens to bikers, and I bet we bikers have done that too.
Mike