Bicycle injuries: Is the right-of-way fight getting ugly?

[August]

Originally Posted by AngusJS

That's a horrible idea. Bikes are so quiet that pedestrians don't know that they're there until they're right next to them (if they approach from behind).

But if a person walking out in the open can't detect the approach of a bicycle then how can we expect the driver inside a car to do any better?

I do however have a solution that might work with pedestrians though.

Two words: Baseball cards.

Yep, clothespin a few of your doubles into the tire spokes of a bike and a pedestrian would have to be deaf not to hear it coming! I advocate a similar solution for those quiet hybrid and electric cars which have been sneaking up on walkers lately.