‘Get out of my way’ thinking is an unfair route to road safety

Despite attempts to achieve a better balance between the interests of pedestrians and cyclists, and motorised vehicles on the local road networks they both share, why are the most fragile road users invariably expected to get out of the way of the most robust ones, asks Tom Cohen. He looks at the realities of the hierarchy of responsibility set out in the recently revised Highway Code, and fears embedded thinking about traffic and highway engineering in the pursuit of road safety may only become more vehicle-dominated with the coming of automated vehicles