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    It's also worth bearing in mind that a driver who's going "Huh? What's that?" at one cyclist isn't paying attention to all the other ones. Commented Feb 5, 2019 at 1:26
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    An anecdote, not about cycling, but it nearly involved me in an accident: I was driving home one night and saw something ahead of me that looked like a huge yellow McDonalds sign, waving about rather like a cartoon ghost. I was still trying to work out what it was when I almost hit it - somebody had decided to make the saddle cloth of their horse "safer" by giving it a high-vis yellow border. If the rider had tied a red light onto his own back, there was some chance it would have looked like a slow moving vehicle to be avoided! ... Commented Feb 5, 2019 at 2:22
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    … with nothing to judge its true size against, I thought I was still 100 yards away from it when I realized the distance was more like 10 feet. Commented Feb 5, 2019 at 2:24
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    @AndrewHenle "Huh? What's that?" is a form of distraction. Distracted drivers, pretty much by definition, aren't paying attention to the stuff they're supposed to be paying attention to. I'm not talking about noticing every little thing beside the road. I'm talking about being distracted by seeing a weird thing in the road and the cognitive load of processing that unusual situation. Commented Feb 5, 2019 at 10:42
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    Because it's mentioned here, as a cyclist and a driver, please don't have a rear light flashing unless you have another that is constantly on. Seriously - flashing lights make it even harder for other road users to determine exactly where you are, much like with the horse in a commend above - this makes you less safe, not more safe. Keep your lights on solidly, please. Commented Feb 6, 2019 at 15:11