PSA: Motion Induced Blindness. Why drivers hit bikers.

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20. A vehicle on a collision course with you keeps a constant bearing.

From your point of view that vehicle is only increasing in size, not moving laterally.

Our vision is attuned to motion, the vehicle on a collision course appears immobile.

Having a moving object in your field of vision, like the parking tag swinging on your mirror only increases the likelihood that your vision will be distracted by that motion from the immobile object about to hit you.

I can tell you from long experience as a rider on both bikes and motorbikes that eye contact is deadly, people will look right straight at you, make eye contact and then pull in front of you anyway. Don't trust eye contact.

ETA: Ride in such a manner that if you were invisible no one would hit you anyway, that's really the only way to survive long term on the street on two wheels.