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Use the crossing Luke.

Later to be Darth Vader

How about parents teaching kids? Why is it the government's job.
And as for adults: FFS whatever happened to a basic sense of self preservation? Its not rocket science to look before you potentially step into the path of a heavy object moving at speed.

Posh version.

Iblivious: As in oblivious due to IPad/Pod etc.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=iblivious

Afraid he's right about that, you've the mean to prevent such collision.

With respect: Bollocks.
Pedestrians have a duty to ensure that the road is clear before they take a dive. Its one of the basics we drill into kids from the point that they can walk.
I was in the primary position on a main road and clearly visible had she bothered to look. I had seen her, and considered the possibility (as I do with all peds) that she might take a suicide dive. But unless I pedal along at walking speed there is always going to be a point of no return.
I am fed up with iblivious idiots paying more attention to their mobile device than to staying alive.

I went to Malta last year and was amazed at the attitude of the road users. There must be some rule of the road but if there are then no one abides by them. However, it all works well. There is a kind of benign anarchy to road use. Everyone does what they want but no one gets wound up by it. It's all relaxed and easy going.
So someone has blocked the road? Ok, they will move in a minute. So someone pulls out on front of you? Ok they are going somewhere, just like you.
It was very strange indeed, but incredibly pleasant to ride/drive without all the hate fuelled rage so evident in the UK.
Must be the climate.

I hit an iPhone iblivious about a year ago. She did a kamikaze 90degree turn from the pavement into the road about 5m in front of me with absolutly no warning at all. one moment she is walking towards me the next she is stepping off the curb. I just had time to yell and get on the brakes before I barrelled into her at about 15 mph. Knocked her flying and I ended up with a fairly soft landing on her.
She was absolutely out of it so I called an ambulance.
Anyway, to cut a long weary saga short, the police officer said that given the propensity for people to wander around concentrating on their mobile devices it was my responsibility as a road user to take account of the possibility that she might step out, without looking.
I replied with a question about her responsibility to look where she is going.
He said "well son (he must have been at least 20 years younger than me, patronising git) that's the way it is these days, live with it".
So I was out of pocket for a new lid and handlebar tape, and she has the audacity to say that she is going to sue me.
Beggars belief.

Standing by in case.

Let me know if its still available.

Although that is a 4 x 4, it's also a BMW, which overrides all wheel drive as being the badge of a toss driver.

Over here, bikes can come under the umbrella of homeowner's insurance or renter's insurance. Check your policy and make sure to tick the box for coverage. My homeowner's insurance went up $12 per year.

Same here! I added all seven of my bikes to my household contents insurance for £50!
Bargain!

Best: any summers morning, bright and early pootling through the lanes.
Worst: waking up in A&E with a monster concussion and a broken arm.

Proximity sensors? Even cheap cars have these for reversing so why not put them on HGV's?

Brave mum.

Hmmmmm.

I have a Griffin and it is very, very tough. I dropped it down stairs at work when my Barack pack strap parted and after bouncing down 10 concrete steps the case was practically unmarked and the ipad worked fine, and still does.

Worth a try if cheap enough.

The Alfa Romeo/De Rosa jersey from the late 80's.

Dibs Mavic Razors to post.

Pm on way.

No good for me, I got brakes.

Just bought one of the new Knog 4v blinder rears. Slightly awesome. Well thought out in all ways.

Looked like strawberry, but I didn't taste.

Well it was about time for something to happen, my commutes have been suspiciously uneventful for a while. So, last night whilst yomping up a steepish hill in the rain and dark a yoot leans out of the passenger window of a passing hot hatch and lobs a Mac dee shake at me. Totally unexpected so I kind of flinch and get a bit unbalanced wobble to the right and get clipped on the back of the head by the wing mirror of the small truck following the yootmobile. God knows how I stayed up, the truck driver stopped and offered to be witness. So called the police, but the number came back as no trace, even though both me and the driver had clocked it. Police very helpful but it looks like false plates. Bastards! At least the rain washed most of the shake off me by the time I got home.

That rules me out on all three counts.