buggi said:
I got there, you know how it is "this is SO unjust" but by the end of the course I can honestly say we all had different attitudes.
I find the tit-for-tat arguing over who is to blame and who should act more responsibly depressing. The simple fact is that there is benefit for providing more training and education for
everyone. Why is that so hard to take in? The accident might have been avoided if the car driver had received better training, but it's also true that it may have been avoided if the cyclist had. There is no down side to better instruction, no mater who gets it, and no advantage to targeting only one group of road users.
Whether it's a road collision, a fight situation or a plane crash, in these kinds of situations your reactions have to be instantaneous and automatic. The only way to help you to do the correct thing is if you have gone through the situation in your head, planned what to do and if possible practiced it in the real world. That's what soldiers do, firemen do, boxers do and if you want to be safer on the roads it's a good idea if you do it too. There is simply no rational argument against it I'm afraid.
