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A comment on Bicycling Street Smarts, Chapter 6: Using Your Brakes (2001). Parent comment

Re:Bicycling Street Smarts, Chapter 6: Using Your Brakes (2001) by pastage on Saturday March 19, 2022 @05:02AM (#30732289)
You can not be on your A game all the time, so yes it's about luck. If everyone just made one mistake every week you would still have a high chance of seeing them all the time.

For me being experienced in traffic means I try to act as a buffer for others mistakes. If you know all of those situations that lead to bad out comes position yourself so less experienced people are herded to the safe ones.

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Re:Bicycling Street Smarts, Chapter 6: Using Your Brakes (2001) by Fricken on Saturday March 19, 2022 @08:42AM (#30733306)
"All those situations that lead to bad outcomes" are situations where I blame the victim for relying on the fatalism of luck. If you come away from a crash and think "oh man, I was just really unlucky" then you're denying yourself the opportunity to learn from it.
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