On 11/08/2015 11:04, Bod wrote:

"More than one in five cyclists go unseen by motorists on the road,
according to an experiment using eye tracking technology conducted for
the insurance company Direct Line, confirming the extent of the ‘SMIDSY’
– ‘Sorry mate, I didn’t see you. Younger drivers missed spotting nearly
one in three riders, and female motorists one in four. By contrast, just
4 per cent of what Direct Line terms "jaywalking" pedestrians were not
seen, and 15 per cent of motorcyclists."

http://road.cc/content/news/81753-in...ore-1-5-riders

That's an odd piece of video.

Of course, the overlaid graphics don't help, but the cyclist who
eventually turns right into the road from which the motor vehicle is
emerging simply is not there in the part of the video before he is
eventually seen turning right. You can advance the video in half-second
increments - he isn't there. It may be that the red overlay masks him to
the viewer of the video.

But... shouldn't the cyclist have been indicating right? And slowing
down for the junction and the imminent maneouvre? That would have made
him more visible (and safer), wouldn't it?

And when he eventually turns right, shouldn't he be turning properly,
that is, offside to offside with the vehicle waiting to emerge rather
than cutting the corner so as to enter the side road on the wrong side
of the road?

Or don't these niceties of the law apply to cyclists?