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@Multi_Grooves
Fundamentally this is wrong. Cyclists pedestrians and Horse riders have a right to use the road. You have to reach no standard, there is no need to get any permission and it can never be denied.
The users of motor vehicles need permission and need to acquire a standard, and it can be revoked. Thus they have no rights, merely permission.[/quote]
Unfortunately drivers do, in effect, have a total right to use the road; how many cases are there where "professional" driver tots up 12 points due to poor/dangerous driving and legally, should lose their license? Yet the claim of hardship sees them straight back on the road. They're not even forced to re-sit the test (which I'd be all for instead of total banning for infringements). Also I'm sure bad cycling can see you lose points on a, driving license if, you have one? (If so, that is a standard of sorts).
@FFM I think drivers tend to be better on passing their tests rather than later once complacency sets in.
I think judges can reduce the blame on a driver that crashes into a cyclist not wearing a helmet, which is so fundamentally wrong. I'd they really must mitigate, then I'd rather they used training (though stats show approx 80% of the fault in bike/car collisions lie with the motorist), so fingers crossed for cycling to hit normalisation in the mindset of the population.