Which is fine but in reality bicycles don’t act as solid objects either. There whole frontal area is a leaver held in place a squishy human rider. In reality, it moves when it hits something which dramatically lowers the forces involved, not dissimilar to pedestrian safety design in a car. It’s also likely to be traveling at a slower speed.
The comment about a cyclist being able to stop more quickly is just what happens in the real world rather than a contrived brake test.
A collision with a predestination is much more likely to happen in an urban environment.
The cyclist is much more likely to be traveling more slowly than a car, it just can’t accelerate as fast. Most cyclists can’t sustain 20mph without a significant gradient on a bike anyway where as a car will happily cruise at 30 in the 20 without even thinking about it.
The cyclist is also much more likely to be paying attention to its surroundings and are more likely to avoid the collision in the first place given they are having to pay attention to all the cars trying to kill them.
Cyclists mix much more closely with pedestrians than cars but accident rates are lower and the KSI stats are not even measured on the same scale as car vs pedestrian.
Ask yourself, what would you be rather hit by, a cyclist or a car?
I’d take cyclist any day of the week.
