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  • It seems to be generally accepted that no cyclist or driver can stop in 7m at 20mph. The police skid reconstruction is daft. It's on a wet road where the copper rides up to a line and brakes suddenly. Not terribly scientific.

  • It's nonsense. They merely apply the same methods that they would normally apply if they were testing a car. However, with cycling it obviously depends on the individual rider much more strongly than with a car, where you do have some variability of reaction time and driving ability, but where the attributes of the machine are much more important. Some brakeless riders can skid to a stop in very little distance (and the police officer in the video doesn't really skid the way a rider would if faced with an emergency stop situation), others can't.

  • It often happens that if a pedestrian notices you as they wander across the road staring into their smartphone they stop dead. It's a roll of the dice whether they do notice you or not so it's impossible to predict where they are going to be when you pass them - hence always a good idea to slow right down. At 18 years old, I guess CA hadn't learned this lesson. You can't navigate obstacles in traffic based on the way you think they should behave.

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