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How does this help if driver is looking at their phone?

• nullc 7y ago
  Since the umbrella is so visible, they may see it from further away during one of their brief glances at the road.
  • llukas 7y ago
    How do you know if you're seen when carrying umbrella? Eye contact is not enough (info you can find in pretty much any driving handbook).
    • nullc 7y ago
      You don't, but it's almost certain that you'd be safer with it than without.
• btrettel 7y ago
  Cyclist here. In my experience a horn works best if the driver is distracted. This is one major reason I have an air horn on my bike.
• unsignedchar 7y ago
  The umbrella is for the AI. For drivers there’s always eye contact
  • usrusr 7y ago
    Eye contact is only meaningful between drivers. When you are asymmetrically squishy (as a pedestrian or cyclist), some drivers will take eye contact as "good, they have seen me, they will know to stay out of my way".