>>1245960Continuing on. Sorry, I had to attend to a few things around the house.
>just get out of the wayOkay, you're hung up on this. Let me try to put it in context, again, as it applies to *every* vehicle on the road and isn't intended or directed as a chastisement against bicycles in particular. This way of thinking, to "get out of the way" is, as I said, the way we CDL drivers are trained. It's called the Smith System, and what I'm specifically referring to [Image Related] is Key #4, "Leave yourself an out". This is not a smug behaviour of superiority, it's a part of safe driving. Once I started actively using this system driving the bus I began to use it when I'm driving my car, and it makes a world of difference and I'd recommend *anyone* operating *any kind* of vehicle on the road to learn and use this system. Be it bike, car, truck, bus, semi... the only guy that always wins is the train, everyone else should be aware. What I've been trying to convey is that I predominantly see cyclists pushing themselves into situations where all the pieces have to move just right or they die. You are the smallest, most vulnerable vehicle on the road, but so many endanger themselves and then blame the vehicle that didn't see them.
>>1245971Okay, every reply so far has been a cursing, snarky remark directed as a quasi-personal attack. I'll take that as, "I'm done." Good day.
>>1245992I'm not arguing that because my bus should and does have the right of way when I'm in motion in my lane, or in the midst of a turn, or making a passenger stop. These are things that, for reasons I cannot conceive, some cyclists think they should take the chance and zip by me on the right, or something like that. The argument is, most heavy vehicle drivers are not going to yield to bikes. This is not out of malice, or incompetence, it is due to the dimensions and mass of our vehicle physically preclude us form seeing a bike, or stopping in time to not hit a bike, in some situations.
