" … try to merge and hope they don't misgauge the distance?"
This isn't a rant at you eiopa, but FFS! Would anybody accept a driver merging into another car (or a bus or a semitrailer or a pedestrian) with some poor attempt at evading responsibility by saying "Sorry, I 'misgauged the distance'"? Is it somehow "acceptable" to "misgauged the distance and merge into a bicycle"? Or is that, as I see it, a completely negligent action for which losing the privilege of having a driving license a completely appropriate response?
I don't think this site is "the right answer" (as admitted by the owner/developer in a seperate comment), but "the right answer" involved holding people responsible for what they do in their cars - which is going to be an outrageously difficult political sell, unless _someone_ does the job of collecting the data to show a) that this is happening, b) that it happens a lot, and if it's true c) that a small but identifiable number of car drivers are responsible for a significant number of incidents.
As a friend of mine keeps saying (mostly in regards to motorcycle and mpotorcycle/car "accidents"):
There's no such thing as an accident. There are only fuckups. Crashing because you got hit by a meteorite - that'd be an accident, everything that actually happens in the real world is a fuckup. Calling things "accidents" is purely a way of shirking responsibility on someone's part.
It doesnt matter. Cars always think they can push the bike away on the right side of the street if they arent fast enough to return. Happens all the time. And indeed the bike will move (or.crash/die so the bike always moves)
This isn't a rant at you eiopa, but FFS! Would anybody accept a driver merging into another car (or a bus or a semitrailer or a pedestrian) with some poor attempt at evading responsibility by saying "Sorry, I 'misgauged the distance'"? Is it somehow "acceptable" to "misgauged the distance and merge into a bicycle"? Or is that, as I see it, a completely negligent action for which losing the privilege of having a driving license a completely appropriate response?
I don't think this site is "the right answer" (as admitted by the owner/developer in a seperate comment), but "the right answer" involved holding people responsible for what they do in their cars - which is going to be an outrageously difficult political sell, unless _someone_ does the job of collecting the data to show a) that this is happening, b) that it happens a lot, and if it's true c) that a small but identifiable number of car drivers are responsible for a significant number of incidents.
As a friend of mine keeps saying (mostly in regards to motorcycle and mpotorcycle/car "accidents"):
There's no such thing as an accident. There are only fuckups. Crashing because you got hit by a meteorite - that'd be an accident, everything that actually happens in the real world is a fuckup. Calling things "accidents" is purely a way of shirking responsibility on someone's part.