Originally Posted by Leisesturm

You guy's ever hear of the "Occam's Razor Postulate"? In the 14th Century(!) a professional thinker noticed that the most likely explanation for a phenomenon is usually, perhaps almost always, the correct one. Occam would strongly disagree that a collision with a car, no matter how traumatic, would be a good reason to dispense with hi-viz clothing as being useless. Only a cyclist could come to such an extreme conclusion based solely on personal experience. No wonder we have such a bad showing of it statistics wise. Blame the cars all you want. Occam would likely be more phlegmatic about it. Some of those collisions were the fault of the cyclist. Hi-viz gear or no, some moves or lack of awarenesses are going to get you clobbered.

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