Originally Posted by
njkayaker
The people advising taking the lane are more certain about it being a better option in this case than "speculating" would allow them.
No one complained that those people were speculating.
We know he did reasonably OK with what he actually did. It's the alternatives that people are proposing that are speculative.
It's a risky road in any case. Taking the lane isn't magic.
That's more like wild speculation.
If the driver did see him (and hit him deliberately?), then taking the lane wouldn't have likely made things better.
I'm not disagreeing that under some circumstances, taking the lane can be a bad idea. But what a motorist would or would not have done, did or did not see, thought or did not think ... is unquestionably speculation.
I've had people close pass me under circumstances where it would seem to be anything but wildly speculative ... like laying on their horn as they pass?
This is part of the problem with pontificating about what someone should or shouldn't have done in a particular situation when we weren't there and didn't witness it.