[MENTION=475523]avole[/MENTION] and all, not seeing the difference, and treating these the same, and shaming those of us who do see the difference and advocate accordingly, is why I blame much of the cycling community. I'm not picking on you. I'm pretty sure most of the cycling community including most here are inclined to agree with your sentiments. That's the problem.

Nobody is going to protect us. We have to protect ourselves. We have to teach each other and encourage each other to learn. It's not that hard, but if we pretend there is nothing to learn or we shouldn't have to learn anything, then we've got no one to blame but ourselves.

The way most cyclists ride, the accepted norms, put us at higher risk than necessary. Most cyclists are outraged by this video because they can see themselves doing the same thing. They don't cringe when they watch it the first time and see her riding alongside that truck. It all looks and feels normal to them. It shouldn't! Seeing a cyclist do that should make them cringe! Only if they have the proper understanding of risk around trucks to genuinely cringe as soon as they see that cyclist, or any cyclist, riding alongside a truck like that, will they have the internal mechanisms to keep them from doing it themselves.

That's where we need to be headed, not crashing into each other and who knows what else for "blaming the victim".