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Important to also note, when something exists commonly on streets, it ends up being expected. When a bike is a random occasion, you don’t drive expecting one o
by htkibar 4y ago
Important to also note, when something exists commonly on streets, it ends up being expected.
When a bike is a random occasion, you don’t drive expecting one on every corner. Even if you hate it. This can create an interesting type of blindness to it (your brain just doesn’t register it[0]).
Even if nothing changed in terms of people’’ feelings, this would be beneficial as well (which I presume, is much more common than people wanting to punish them).
[0]: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/motr/motorcycles-are-missed-because-drivers-arent-looking-for-them.html https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/motr/motorcycles-a...
- cowmoo728 4y agoI've also noticed in the US that people have a built in idea of how fast a bicycle goes - roughly 20-25 km/h, the speed that the middle school and high school students go while biking to class. I can often reach 40 km/h on my road bike, but I have to pre-emptively brake as soon as someone starts a right turn or is about to pull into the road. Because they see a cyclist, assume I'm going 20 km/h, and pull out directly in my path even though I would have smashed straight into the side of their car if I had not defensively braked. It's like their brain just shuts off estimating speed and distance as soon as they see a bicycle, it's very interesting.
- htkibar 4y agoExpectations play an interesting part for sure. To draw a parallel, this is why in the Netherlands at the moment e-bikes are scary as hell - because they are faster than the expected speed of a bike; it is harder to notice / react.