A Type of Road Junction that Kills Cyclists

I posted this 2 days ago, but for some reason it didn't make it to the front page like yours.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16094431

Wow, after all these years I finally learned the name of this phenomenon, constant bearing decreasing range.

I recall a scene in the movie Sin City where two cars crash and the camera was moving in CBDR to the perpendicular car as it zoomed into the impact site. I thought it was a cool shot.

Also I’ve almost hit pedestrians several times when they were obscured by my A pillar. Sometimes I wonder if I would have actually hit them if anyone would have believed I didn’t see them, now I know the proper term to describe the cause of such an accident.

Unless there's a significant discussion in a previous submission, this sort of comment isn't particularly useful.

HN's collective choice in what to promote / demote is exceptionally fickle and happenstance.

Rather like success in the SV start-up world.

In both cases, backing a winner is generally more rewarding than doubling down on an attempt which, through no fault of its own, has failed.

HN also periodically give a second chance to submissions deemed high quality. So you've got that option as well.

There's a lot of math in this article about blind spots and car pillars and whatnot, but a Google Maps Street View appears to show the terrain and brush blocking the view on approach [1][2], making all of this math largely moot. That the drivers in question didn't even so much as slow down for this approach is beyond reckless, aside from the other lawbreaking that followed.

The 'Give Way' sign is idiotic, put a Stop sign on the other, flatter road, or make it a 4-way stop. The drivers causing accidents were blowing through the intersection, and shame on the wording of the law that they were able to weasel out of harsher punishment.

Altering the roadway geometry, either as proposed, or more drastically with a roundabout, is a brute-force solution on this country road when other societal measures don't suffice, but it seems that there's plenty of room to enact other changes before you dig up the road.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@50.8638239,-1.4511249,3a,75y,26... [2] https://www.google.com/maps/@50.8634141,-1.452595,3a,75y,269...

Did you not read the article? There was no solution except to throw one’s hands in the air and proclaim human error.