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Do you still have your anti motorcycle bias?
I actually think you are wrong. Sticking people in a car, with lots of sound proofing totally discontented from the road aurally as well as physically meaning that the person in the car has less to fear. In general people give a shit about themselves and maybe close family and friends, some other random person gets no thought space at all. We have technology to help the person inside the car survive and now exterior wise things are progressing, but people buy cars on their crash rating and not the harm it could do to someone outside the car. Quite a few studies have gone in to this to help sell cars.
As to your comments about cyclists, I thing the calling out bad cyclists thread on here shows a different opinion.
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I am a motorist. I think I am an ok sort of person, most of the time.
The Personal Construct Psychology perspective suggests that
So maybe the problem is that we have too many socio-psychologists (*) out on the streets looking for tribal warfare where it may not exist.
I suspect that when we are motorists much of the feeling towards unprotected road users comes from our own fear, perhaps subliminal fear, that we are not totally in control of our machine, and we are afraid of hurting other people. It is human nature to externalise those fears, creating a fictional "other", rather than admitting and embracing our own inadequacies.
Much the same is true when we are riding bikes. I often have to deal with people complaining about dangerous pedestrians being a threat to people on bikes. The standard response "have you considered cycle training" is not always well received.
(* should that be "psycho-sociologists")