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They may well be selfish, but many people genuinely don't know about the risk. It's one of those things you need to say over and over again to those whom you see doing it. You very rarely get a 'thank you'. In this case, perhaps they were just exploiting the fact that the driver seemed aware of them, in which case the risk is lower, but your charge of selfishness applies more directly.
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I can't see you when you do that
I'll take "blaming other road users for your vehicles blindspot" for $500, Alex.
Sounds like the driver was trying to change lanes and you expect other road users to let him do so? Nah mate, if you wanna change lanes and there's traffic in the other lane then you wait.
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loads of cyclists were undercutting a massive lorry who was trying to switch from the right hand to left hand turning lane on Waterloo bridge this morning. All they had to do was wait and let him through and they would have had the entire lane in front of the lorry to ourselves. Instead, after the lorry was changing lane, they all selfishly, and dangerously undertook the fella only to move back into the right hand turn lane; they were squeezing into the ever closing gap between the lorry and the road barrier. Understandably he was pretty angry: "you guys are literally nuts, are you trying to get yourselves killed...I can't see you when you do that." etc. I wasn't the only cyclist holing back who genuinely thought we were going to witness one of those horror stories involving bikes and lorries. Selfish idiots.