Originally Posted by
BillyD
That's your opinion. In my opinion it's not clear at all that the driver didn't look. As any driver will attest, when you prepare to pull out of a driveway you're looking predominately for motor vehicles, not a bicycle. It's rather easy to overlook a bicycle under even the best conditions. Unless we are in that driver's brain, it's not clear at all what he saw.
We only need to observe the video, there's no need to be "in that driver's brain".
"Didn't look", or simple driver error, is extremely common, and would account for pulling out in front of a cyclist (or any vehicle). It's always "rather easy" to not see something when you do not look.
But if any driver "looks but does not see", that's a much bigger problem: they shouldn't be driving; and especially not a school bus.
Of course it is up to us to be hyper-vigilant of these bad drivers. But I don't agree with the mentality of "bad driver apologists", that it's easy to overlook cyclists, or we're particularly difficult to see. If the burden were more squarely placed on motor vehicles to look for cyclists and pedestrians, the roads would be much safer.