Originally Posted by
kickstart
Your response was to a particular circumstance of a vehicle backing out of a driveway, your advice was just plain wrong for the circumstance, and contrary to what you're saying now. Once again, one can't use one solution for every problem.
I said going around the rear of the vehicle. Because the driver already has to be aware of other motorists on the road. That are coming from the other direction. That allows cyclists' to pass, where the vehicle is already looking for traffic.