wha ? ??? Gah ! These people ! <| sep |> However a question for you do you believe that every other road user is a sensible person who will follow the Highway Code to the dot , use their mirrors and indicators all the time , and have superb awareness of what ' s going on around them ? Yet you expect cyclists to not only have this superhuman level of performance and awareness but to do it so well that they ' re actually able to detect and avoid other road users ' ignorance before it causes an accident . So which is it ? Either road users are not perfect , in which case we need laws to detect and prosecute the ignorant , incompetent trash who injure others or they can be telepathic as you suggest . You can ' t demand one level of awareness from cyclists while completely excusing drivers from having it too .