I've been in a few close calls, and in every one the driver was not paying full attention to the road and (nearly) swerved into someone riding a bicycle.
But reporters use such sympathetic language describing the negligent driver.
But reporters use such sympathetic language describing the negligent driver.
If you analyze patterns in wheel angle and rate of change of angle over time, I would suspect that drvers who are texting/'looking down a screen' are going to have very distinct series of 'abrupt' correction patterns.
Where that telemetry is available in cars post 2010's then it should absolutely be used in forensics.
It works the other way. Cyclists think all drivers are maniacs for similar reasons.
How is this surprising at all?
I think we should assume that stupidity is evenly distributed and mode of transport doesn't affect it much, just the results.