The Federal Consumer Product Safety Commission required that bicycles be equipped with the all-reflector system and asserted that this system was adequate for nighttime safety. This persuades people to use only the all-reflector system without the necessary head lamp: CPSC & Lights
The Federal Consumer Product Safety Commission conducted a bicycle safety study. Would you think credible a study whose data say that the average speed of cyclists is about 2 mph, and the average number of bicycles that you see on the road is between 10% and 15% of the number of motor vehicles in sight? The formal conclusions are just as incredible: CPSC Bicycle Safety Study
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the National Center for Injury Control called a National Conference on Bicycle Safety in 2000. I participated in the Facilities Panel, while John Allen participated in the Cyclist Behavior Panel. The kindest comment that one can make is that this conference was rigged to continue the government's bikeway safety program while concealing that it hasn't reduced casualties, while also concealing the existence of the one best method of reducing car-bike collisions: getting cyclists to ride as drivers of vehicles:
Soon after the conference meeting, I sent a Call to Action to the organizers in NHTSA and NCIC, suggesting that they learn the subject of bicycle transportation engineering and take the appropriate, but courageous, action of recommending a scientifically sound strategy based on the Vehicular-Cycling Principle. Call to Action
California commissioned the world's first statistically robust study of car-bike collisions. When the study demonstrated the falsity of California's policy, California suppressed the study. I own one of the world's few copies. First Ken Cross Study
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