Honestly bikers need better bike safety on their own part instead of blaming people in cars… they be speeding thru traffic with literally no protection around your body you have to understand that comes with bear death experiences… I say this as a person who has been tboned by a car that ran a red light while on my bike

I use to work for the nascar version of this and it’s a waste of money… they have a chip in the cars that controls your speed but let’s you boost rpm to make you think you going faster than you are. It’s kinda of cool you can drive on the track but your top speed is usually less than 150 mph. And they slowly gauge yu up because the car can be controlled by the spotter in the stands so they make sure you really don’t kick it up until the last lap. It’s a huge scam in my opinion at least for the price 350-409 for a 10 min experience where you don’t Actually always get what’s described

The average breaking distance for a car going 15 miles an hour about 45 feet, and that’s assuming The driver saw the object while they were at least 30 feet away. and that’s for small cars with new breaks A lot of people don’t understand the math behind their everyday life when you are driving a car typically at 25mph you are going actually going about 37feet per second or about 12 meters per second. The average pedestrian pops out about 40-50 feet ahead of u. So there’s not much most drivers can do when someone pops out of nowhere the driver can’t just stop their car. Physics just doesn’t work to make the driver accountable for pedestrians because the relative speed of each object to so vastly different. Cars going the same speeds have a better chance of missing each other because of that relative speed everyone is kind of on the same plane but with cars and bikes they’re not moving close to the same relative speed so when they pop out thinking they can make it. They’re are not accurately judging what it takes for that “giant death machine” to stop moving and how fast it’s actually coming at them on pedestrians account

I hope that makes more sense for you

Sometimes they are

Not if the pedestrian caused the accident… for example if a pedestrian runs out in the street where there’s no cross walk it’s not always the drivers fault. Any typically insurance will take care of it for cases where the pedestrian isn’t in the crosswalk or the driver isn’t “in the wrong”

That’s not at all how physics works my good sir.

Has anyone thought of how many pedestrians and cyclist actually are at fault for some of these accidents ?

Then try to get there early but there usually parking in the tidal basin

The outdoor lots on street parking will be able to idk about the tidal basin

There are not many outdoor lots but street parking is available if you can find it…. The tidal basin, or the outdoor lot at the end of the warf might be your best bets