They knew. Datapoint, 1944 movie "Thirty Seconds over Tokyo", cigarettes are referred to as coffin nails in carrier deck conversation between Van Johnson and Robert Mitchum.

I don't run red lights, or blow through stop signs.
I will make a left turn from the left lanes, as that is fitting, proper and legal ( where I am, anyway ).
Otherwise, I keep to the right and make sure I am predictable, and try to be courteous to all.

It is still dangerous.

I agree completely that a cyclist should obey the rules of the road. It annoys me when they don't, as a cyclist, as car drivers seem to take a "all cyclists misbehave, so I can run them over" attitude. But that is all window dressing. Riding a bike in traffic is dangerous because automobile operators, in general, don't look, don't see, and don't understand ( excluding a few that do, and a few that seem actively malicious*. ) I would expect you would know that from riding a motorcycle, I have noticed that cars seem to act the same there.

* I am alive today thanks to ( short list, there are others A, 2 metal posts I could ride between, but the car trying to run me down could not, and B, a curb that I hopped up that the car chasing me was not willing to try to get up ).
Note, just ridding my bike where I was allowed to.

It really is too bad that we supposedly rational humans cannot find something that allows things to work without all that pain and suffering.

Things like this really show just how stupid and inconsiderate we can be ( and are ).

"All that said, this doesn't mean massive waves of unemployment... instead it means that the displaced folks (or those facing it) cannot afford to sit back and let things stand pat; I suspect that the pace of learning new stuff will quicken, perhaps back to the pace set by the dot-boom era."

If there are fewer jobs, how can it not mean unemployment?
Education may make one person more hire-able for an opening, but it will not create additional jobs.

I don't know, I've found my Internet connected pacemaker to be pretty useful, gives me stats, automatically informs my doctor if there's a problem, it's nice. And there is good security with a password and full logging, as anyone browsing to http //172.16.54.138/admin.php?include=/usr/share/www/basic-authentication.php&log=/home/pacemaker/default.log&addlog=2015-02-12%2011:21:00%20Initiated%20login can clearly see.

Best part: the guy who wrote the software apparently used to work for what was, until a yea...

FTFY :-)

Ronald Reagan!

No,

God exists and I believe ( have faith in, seek Him ) in him, I win.
( God exists and I don't believe ), or he doesn't exist, I lose.
If he does not exist and I believe, what have I lost I would not have lost anyway?

I own a 2000 BMW 328i, and I can testify to the blink rate differential on that year and model.
It is 15 years old ( it's "birthday" is this month! ), so I don't know if it qualifies as "modern" or not.

That would be a lot of circuitry for an edge case that might never occur...
And on top of that, most people don't know or notice that this happens.....

If that is true,then the implication is that pedestrians and cyclists are actively keeping from being hit.
Which implies that most drivers are doing a poor job of paying consistent attention.

As a driver, cyclist and pedestrian, I quite believe it.

How would the relay ( not that it is exactly a relay ) being in the engine compartment versus in the dashboard change the blink rate when a bulb is out?

If the "tick tick" is fake, then why do the lights blink at different rates when a bulb is out?

I worked on a Token Ring network early in my career.
It was a very good, robust system.
We had a star topology, twisted pair to the desktops, the Ring was all in our cabling area.
We had failures of individual lines to desktops, but that would have happened with Ethernet.
Never had a ring failure, IIRC.

A, "loser pays", never heard about this 50/50 apportionment.
B, " If Apple is in the right, then they win, and the poor defendant is on hook for the entire bill.".
Quite. You don't think that will have a chilling effect? Consider the opposite, you are right, but Apple is big.
Being right does not mean you will win.
I would consider the potential downside before I launched a lawsuit, no matter how in the right I am.
I don't think this would stop harassment lawsuits, it might change how much money they "officially" threw at it ( both for the apportionment and the liability if they lose ).

With "loser pays", those with deep pockets will be the only ones who could afford to bring suit.
Not sure how that fixes anything...