Thats the difference tho. The post about the taxi driver hitting the cyclist wheel to "hurry them up" is entirely different from someone not realising.
Is this an excuse ?? No but there is a diff between deliberate and accidental/in-attention....
Unfortunaetly most drivers have their brain used to looking for other cars and bigger vehicles and their brain seems to (for want of a better explanation) filter out small vehicles like cycles and motorbikes. They ARE more difficult to see and, in particular to motorbikes due to their acceleration, they can appear from the strangest places almost instantly. The riders of these bikes may not always allow time for the car driver to register that they are there even though it is very obvious to the cyclist as they put themselves in that position.
Impossible but I would like to see the amount of near-misses and collisions between cars and cyclists caused by obvious aggression compared to the amount caused by lack of education/knowledge.
