Originally Posted by
genec
When motor vehicle traffic is flying past you at well over 50MPH your speed, you are being treated as a pedestrian no matter where you are on the road... be it on the shoulder, in the middle of the right lane or anywhere else on the roadway for that matter. As a matter of fact, you are about as close to being a "sign post" as a human can be.
This is the issue that some need to get over... when the speed differential is high, you are NOT part of traffic... you are merely an obstacle to be avoided.
Sorry gene, you and I have always disagreed on this. Using your logic, all SMVs are not part of traffic in cases where the flow of traffic has a higher speed differential.
Indeed, that would mean that an 18 wheeler creeping up a grade at 40mph isn't part of traffic in relation to the cars zipping past at 75-80. We are traffic AND obstacles.
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