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anovikov 17 hours ago

Most humans in that situation won't have reaction speed to do shit about it and it could result in a severe injury or death.

jayd16 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Humans are not going to win on reaction time but prevention is arguably much more important.

gensym 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah. I'm a stickler for accountability falling on drivers, but this really can be an impossible scenario to avoid. I've hit someone on my bike in the exact same circumstance - I was in the bike lane between the parked cars and moving traffic, and someone stepped out between parked vehicles without looking. I had nowhere to swerve, so squeezed my brakes, but could not come to a complete stop. Fortunately, I was going slow enough that no one was injured or even knocked over, but I'm convinced that was the best I could have done in that scenario.

The road design there was the real problem, combined with the size and shape of modern vehicles that impede visibility.

pastage 16 hours ago | parent [-]

Building on my own experience I think you have to own that if you crash with someone you made a mistake. I do agree that car and road design for bicycles(?) makes it almost impossible to move around if you do not risk things like that.

lokar 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How would standard automatic breaking (standard in some brands) have performed here?