Originally Posted by
mr_bill
Because putting a light on your bicycle obliterates your awareness and training?
See and
Be Seen. It's trivial to do both. (But assume you aren't seen, and assume you haven't seen something.)
Episode 1: the right-turn-on-red story.
You, and many others, ESPECIALLY IN A&S, might conclude that since so many studies have the words "not statistically significant", that right on red is not significantly more dangerous. And you would be incorrect.
The most commonly cited widely available paper "proving" that RTOR is not more dangerous is
Accident Experience With Right Turn on Red (1977). All the author's concluded was that there was insufficient data. That's *NOT* what too many people concluded. (The other widely cited report is an AASHTO task force report from 1979 - available on paper.)
It didn't take long for there to be sufficient data, so it was LONG ago established that
RTOR is dangerous for pedestrians and bicyclists (1981) . Oopsies.
-mr. bill
BTW doesn't that 1981 report really conclude that CARS (yes, drivers) doing RTOR are what are too dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists. And if we are really serious, isn't it CARS (yes, drivers) that generally make roads dangerous? I mean after all, it isn't cyclist nor peds out there killing some 35,000+ folks on the roads... right?
