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<blockquote data-quote="Benben" data-source="post: 994906" data-attributes="member: 25133"><p>So many idiots out there both in cars and on bikes, this is why the methods are so important. Just playing devils advocate here, and I am in no way defending nor pointing fingers so do not go getting all pissy on me.</p><p></p><p>Questions:</p><p></p><p>1. Was the biker an idiot? LOL, ok this is a given!</p><p>2. Was the biker distracted? What was this idiot doing-trying to make a video? He was NOT paying attention.</p><p>3. Did our brother know he was there? In other words checking rear view every 5-8 seconds?</p><p>4. Why did our brother stop? Was this an intersection or a delivery?</p><p>4. Did our brother signal his/her intention well in advance if this was a delivery? This is a biggie in my opinion (you know what they say about opinions). </p><p></p><p>The biker looked down so the helmet cam doesn't see everything (idiot drivers out there being distracted are not confined to cars only) Right turn signal followed by hazzards, horn?. Yes the biker is at fault and should get a ticket we can ALL aggree on this. But we are professional drivers. 5 seeing habits in action. The biker was back there for over 5 secs just in the little video we saw so <strong>KEEP YOUR EYES MOVING </strong>would have given our brother information. <strong>COMMUNICATE IN TRAFFIC- </strong>Signaling your intention to stop where 99.9% of other drivers would not stop, thus alerting the biker to pull his head out of his arse. <strong>4-WAY FLASHERS</strong> to alert this idiot to STFU in the video and PAY ATTENTION! Would the use of the horn have helped this maroon to realize he is about to get hurt, could he even have heard the horn over his mumblings? Could our driver have tapped his/her brakes to get this bikers attention before we did something the biker wasn't excecting (making a stop that wasn't at an intersection)</p><p></p><p>There is a difference in "at fault" and "avoidable/unavoidable" If our brother was stopping at an interesection or something in the road this would be damn near cut and dry and I hope the sup who can to investigate told the biker off for ruining our driver's day! If this was a delivery stop on a narrow, no passing zone road and with how quickly the ups truck went from full speed to a dead stop...I don't know.....we just do not have enough information!</p><p></p><p>Telematics is going to have some interesting information!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Benben, post: 994906, member: 25133"] So many idiots out there both in cars and on bikes, this is why the methods are so important. Just playing devils advocate here, and I am in no way defending nor pointing fingers so do not go getting all pissy on me. Questions: 1. Was the biker an idiot? LOL, ok this is a given! 2. Was the biker distracted? What was this idiot doing-trying to make a video? He was NOT paying attention. 3. Did our brother know he was there? In other words checking rear view every 5-8 seconds? 4. Why did our brother stop? Was this an intersection or a delivery? 4. Did our brother signal his/her intention well in advance if this was a delivery? This is a biggie in my opinion (you know what they say about opinions). The biker looked down so the helmet cam doesn't see everything (idiot drivers out there being distracted are not confined to cars only) Right turn signal followed by hazzards, horn?. Yes the biker is at fault and should get a ticket we can ALL aggree on this. But we are professional drivers. 5 seeing habits in action. The biker was back there for over 5 secs just in the little video we saw so [B]KEEP YOUR EYES MOVING [/B]would have given our brother information. [B]COMMUNICATE IN TRAFFIC- [/B]Signaling your intention to stop where 99.9% of other drivers would not stop, thus alerting the biker to pull his head out of his arse. [B]4-WAY FLASHERS[/B] to alert this idiot to STFU in the video and PAY ATTENTION! Would the use of the horn have helped this maroon to realize he is about to get hurt, could he even have heard the horn over his mumblings? Could our driver have tapped his/her brakes to get this bikers attention before we did something the biker wasn't excecting (making a stop that wasn't at an intersection) There is a difference in "at fault" and "avoidable/unavoidable" If our brother was stopping at an interesection or something in the road this would be damn near cut and dry and I hope the sup who can to investigate told the biker off for ruining our driver's day! If this was a delivery stop on a narrow, no passing zone road and with how quickly the ups truck went from full speed to a dead stop...I don't know.....we just do not have enough information! Telematics is going to have some interesting information! [/QUOTE]
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