Just answer me this question. Assume a driver is passing a cyclist. Driver gives the cyclist the required 1m and passes at a reasonable speed (say 10km/h faster). While the pass is in progress, the cyclist swerves left (reason unknown). The driver is unable to react as they are out of space, and in any case the situation happened too quickly for the driver to reasonably react especially given that the cyclist was in the driver's blind spot by that time. A collision occurs aa the cyclist collides into the car, gets knocked off and hits his head and dies from brain trauma.
Who is at fault ?
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If you pass a tractor, and it collides with you, isn't it at fault? The same rules apply, except you can pass closer to one
In my eyes, unless the reason the cyclist swerves and collides would have made the pass an unsafe one, the cyclist would be at fault.
moronic.
Like many of the questions and answers in this thread.
I assume you are referring to my hypothetical scenario.
In that case, dear Bob, how is this rule to be applied? How is it to be governed? What are the responsibilities of drivers? What are the responsibilities (assuming there are any, which doesn't seem to be the case) of cyclists?
pi314 asserts that there is a scenario where a pass that begins as a safe pass can be made unsafe at the fault of the driver due to the movement of the cyclist. What is this scenario? What are the principles that govern fault in such a scenario and can we generalize them to an overall framework of fault determination?
In other words does this policy hold up from an ethical and logical perspective, or is it ultimately just convenience and politics?
I'm just saying, it's a law to try to enforce some common sense, and common sense should be applied.
If you are closer than 1m to me then you are probably a little too close, give me a bit more room.
If you are 1m or more away when you overtake, great, thanks for the space.
If you gave me space and I swerved a little to avoid something, probably not your fault. My bad.
If you gave me space and I swerved into you, again, probably my fault.
If you gave me no space and I had to swerve and I hit you, you were probably too close. I rarely have to swerve more than 1m to avoid something.
You don't need to come up with many legal guidelines to enforce the above, common sense should apply. Give cyclists enough space and there won't be any issues. And just like sides in any debate, there will be extremes, same as idiot car drivers and idiot cyclists.
