Originally Posted by RobinOfLoxley:
“But I must say that looking over shoulders and using both wing-mirrors are an absolutely vital part of driving.”
“But I must say that looking over shoulders and using both wing-mirrors are an absolutely vital part of driving.”
Without doubt, it definitely is.
.....But only in situations where you should be expecting another vehicle to be. On a motorway you should always check your blind spot before overtaking someone & ideally the other one when pulling back in to the lane you just left.
On roundabouts too when other drivers get in the wrong lane and stay on left hand side instead of turning off.
The problem is that we have millions of drivers that have been specifically told to do certain things when learning to drive. Checking the blindspot on your left, whilst slowly moving in traffic is not one of them. The re-educating process would cause far more cyclist accidents than we currently have already.
The introduction of the new rule would enhance bad cyclist's belief that they can bomb up the inside without a care in the world, until Geoff who's been driving for 45 years turns left having been signalling for the last 30 seconds & didn't see Tarquin on his Fixie weave into the inside of his car 2 seconds ago.




) drivers don't want to take turns.