Originally Posted by
Daniel4
I would think that legally, 'not see' the victim is an admission of guilt and negligence or carelessness.
Sure. And the penalty is generally a citation for failure to yield. Even in the case of a fatal accident. At least in the US.
from the earlier linked abstract:
Humans routinely miss important information that is ‘right in front of our eyes’, from overlooking typos in a paper to failing to see a cyclist in an intersection. Recent studies on these ‘Looked But Failed To See’ (LBFTS) errors point to a common mechanism underlying these failures, whether the missed item was an unexpected gorilla, the clearly defined target of a visual search, or that simple typo. We argue that normal blindness is the by-product of the limited-capacity prediction engine that is our visual system. The processes that evolved to allow us to move through the world with ease are virtually guaranteed to cause us to miss some significant stimuli, especially in important tasks like driving and medical image perception.
Worth considering. The research is nascent so not much is really known but there is at least a suggestion that these are actual processing errors in the brain.
But whatever you may believe the one thing we do know is pull outs happen frequently. And will continue. So you have to ride like they don't see you.