• PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    It because they’re bracing themselves with the steering wheel when doing a very exaggerated shoulder check.
    My driver training course explicitly brought this up, but presumably not everyone took driver training.

    But I don’t think that’s what they’re talking about, I think they mean that little cars who give an enormous berth between their car and obstacles, so they end up taking up as much of the road as a large car would

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      3 months ago

      You are correct that’s what I mean. Little cars passing parked cars, rubbish on the road, or bicyclists in the bike lane going half way, or more, into the oncoming lane to avoid it.

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        3 months ago

        It only takes one bike to wobble as you pass or one baby cart coming unexpectedly out behind the obstacle to imprint the need to give wide clearance