05-24-2019, 11:15 PM
(05-24-2019, 10:51 PM)The ferret_imp Wrote: the other side of the coin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjVt-Au8uwI
Yeah...that's tough to watch. The sad thing to see is the example at the 2:35 minute where the guy hits the pedestrian. Neither is concerned for the other's condition after the collision; rather, they both want to blame the other..."you shouldn't be going so fast" and "you should be looking where you're going".
The lady shouldn't be crossing the street between stopped cars...but she does. And the mc rider doesn't expect her to step out from among stopped cars...yet she does.
On the other hand, someone will argue that the same mc rider could just as likely have been rear-ended by a car had he been waiting patiently in traffic.
The other one that gets me is at the 3:27 mark...guy is splitting ok, and then two drivers up front are "being nice" to let another driver make what looks to be a left hand turn...and smack. MC rider can't see that car pulling out because of truck and black van in right hand lane. But then I look down the hiway at see how far traffic is snarled and I think "I probably would have wanted to do the same thing as the mc rider".
I don't know...you pick your poison I guess. At 55, I'm generally not in a big hurry to get where I'm going...I just want to get there, so I'll probably not lane split / filter anytime soon 1) because it's not legal here and 2) ready to pull forward if I suspect someone's going to hit me seems the safer way to go...until it isn't...which, I hope I never find out.