Cyclist awareness video

Redrider · Post by **Redrider** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 12:39 am

I found this to be a cool video about actual cyclist awareness, applicable to scooter riders everywhere.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB9SRm2c_LA

louie · Post by **louie** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:51 pm

what's to be learned?...be aware that you can miss something?
like don rumsfeld once said, "...there are things we know, things we don't know, things we know we don't know, and things we don't know we don't know." or something along those lines.

illnoise · Post by **illnoise** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:48 pm

It was produced by a british government road safety group, the point is that even motorists that are driving responsibly and alertly and doing what they're supposed to do, can easily miss seeing a bicycle or motorcycle, so drivers should keep an eye out for bikes, and cyclists/motorcyclists should be aware that they're not as visible to other motorists as a car.

I think it gets that point across superbly. That ad was targeted at cycling, but they've done some other really good pro-safety advertising and marketing for motorcycles and all aspects of safe driving:

http://www.thinkroadsafety.gov.uk/campa ... cycles.htm

here's a great ad they did more specifically targeted at motorcycles:

http://www.thinkroadsafety.gov.uk/campa ... wclose.mpg

I'd love to see something like that running in the U.S.

louie · Post by **louie** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 8:23 pm

unfortunately there is no mention of motorcyclists or the extra attention/time needed to look for them in the drivers license test in the US, even though we know if dmv were to bring attention to the awareness issues more people would see us well before contact is made. i've said it here before, if a driver isn't looking for a mc the brain's not going to see it. adding this information to a driving test would change some drivers awareness to us riders.

as has been stated by rumsfeld, it's better to know you don't know than to not know what you don't know. (it's a puzzle, figure it out)

Apiarist · Post by **Apiarist** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 12:32 pm

OMG. How eye opening that video was. After the answer was revealed and it was replayed, I thought it was a joke like a second take of the action with the anomaly added in. There was no way I could have missed it. So I started it from the beginning, ignored the test and watched. And there it was just like in the replay. Astounding!