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My thoughts on the 'cyclist detector' equipment are:
What is the rate of false positives?
What is the rate of false negatives?
If there are too many false positives, drivers will tend to ignore the beeping and turn anyway, killing the cyclist.
If there are* any *false negatives and the driver is relying on the equipment instead of just LOOKING WHERE HE'S FUCKING GOING, that's another dead cyclist.
It's a technological non-solution to a problem which could be easily solved by lorry drivers actually giving a fuck about another human being.