cyclist – All about car

Whether youre a driver, cyclist, or a pedestrian, we all share the road.Ernest Doroszuk / Postmedia Once again, a dashcam delivers.Toronto is awash in rising collisions between vehicles and both pedestrians and cyclists. All media is in (rare) agreement, reporting that police enforcement has tanked, putting more people at significant risk. City Hall appears to care. Appears. Drivers seem not to. The fact is we are hurting and killing each other and we have to stop.The latest piece of evidence is this viral clip. The video shows a Mercedes-Benz making a right turn, into a cyclist. Cyclist goes down, driver crosses over the median and carries on.Reports say the driver did come back and was charged with careless driving.A car rammed into a cyclist in Markham and it was all caught on video. Luckily the cyclist was not badly injured. The driver was arrested. #bikeTO #Markham #Toronto pic.twitter.com/8CMMUNRWHq blogTO (@blogTO) November 25, 2019Some say the cyclist should have dismounted, etc. because lets blame the person who was run over by an SUV. The cyclist did not suffer serious injuries.That driver was making a right turn onto a busy six-lane roadway. That driver was intent on looking for oncoming vehicles, and any pedestrian or cyclist would have lined up with their front A-pillar, and been partially if not totally hidden. It’s why we have a solid white stop stripe at intersections — to keep sidewalks safe for those who use them. When cars sit in them, and drivers stay devoted on their own next move instead of those they are putting in peril, metal-to-flesh contact will continue to rise.So, who’s to blame? What’s the ratio?Take Our Poll
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Volvo Cars and POC develop world-first car-bike helmet crash test Volvo is developing a new, world-first crash test that pits bicycle helmets against cars to help protect cyclists. The automaker has teamed up with POC, a Swedish sports and safety company, to create the tests. They are being carried out at Volvo Cars’ research facilities in Gothenburg, Sweden, and are part of a wider research project aimed at understanding the types of long-term injuries that cyclists can sustain. For the test, POC bicycle helmets are put onto crash dummy heads that are mounted on a testing rig. The test vehicle doesn’t move; the dummy heads are launched toward different area of the hood, at different speeds and angles. Current bike helmet test procedures only involve dropping a helmet onto a flat or angled surface from different heights, and do not include vehicle-bicycle collisions. Volvo said the project with POC “aims to further refine and advance such testing.” In 2013, Volvo was the first auto manufacturer to add cyclist detection to its emergency forward braking system, following the launch of pedestrian detection with full braking in
Origin: Volvo crash-tests bike helmets for cyclist safety