Originally Posted by
RazorWind
From the article, it sounded like he was on the far left side of a one-way road, and driver didn't look over his shoulder like they teach you to do in driver's ed.
His post is unclear as to which side he was on:
Traffic was moving rather slowly and you were heading in the downtown direction, as was I. You were in the far left lane and I was riding on the curbside of that lane, near your rear passenger door. Suddenly, you began to veer your Mercedes to the left, potentially crushing me between your car and the cars parked on the side of the road.
He makes a really weak case by not explaining who was passing whom. If he was passing the driver, it was his fault.
Plus there's no rule that drivers need to check blind spots before moving from one part of a lane to another.