...with some cycle training you'll never worry about hitting pedestrians again. You'll be able to anticipate what they're going to do...
The issue is not predictability; they are, almost without exception, arrogant, stupid and entirely devoid of any sense of self-preservation. Knowing that, they're reasonably easy to avoid. I've only ever hit one by accident, and he was drunk and performed a really impressive U-turn in the middle of the road after I'd taken evasive action in response to his blindly launching himself across 4 lanes of traffic some 20 yards from a perfectly adequate pelican crossing.
To say that pedestrians are predictably stupid does not excuse their stupidity any more than saying that MPs are predictably thieving scumbags excuses their thieving scumbaggery.
The issue is not predictability; they are, almost without exception, arrogant, stupid and entirely devoid of any sense of self-preservation. Knowing that, they're reasonably easy to avoid. I've only ever hit one by accident, and he was drunk and performed a really impressive U-turn in the middle of the road after I'd taken evasive action in response to his blindly launching himself across 4 lanes of traffic some 20 yards from a perfectly adequate pelican crossing.
To say that pedestrians are predictably stupid does not excuse their stupidity any more than saying that MPs are predictably thieving scumbags excuses their thieving scumbaggery.