MGF wrote:trashbat wrote:...
It's not like we're placed on the landscape along with an opposing vehicle and both set loose at carefully chosen times such that there's a good chance we'll meet. 100mph might have been great for missing an accident whose parameters meant he was most likely to get hit when travelling at 60mph. So would setting off earlier.
It isn't as simple as that. People look as far as and as much as they think they need to look.
I think that's the point. If 60 means the driver sees the biker because the biker is not beyond where the driver is looking, the difference between 100 and 60 isn't the difference between a collision and a marginal near miss, it's the difference between a collision and the car not pulling in front of the biker at all.