Originally Posted by serge
Actually, the further out you are, the longer are the sight lines for them to see you sooner.
True, and so too could you hear autos approaching from farther off... and since there was no other area to ride... the usual method was simply to ride in the middle of the lane and hope for the best. Usually the motorists were just as spooked about what they might encounter... so it generally worked out.
What I didn't mention was riding down hill in the slipstream of autos coming back... Yahoooooo!
These days, thoughts of that skinny tire hitting a tiny rock would not let me do that... sigh.... Sad thing about getting older.
(I still remember chasing semi-trucks down 101/1 coming out of Lompoc... freaked my wife out...)