Cycling trails in the Nothing, driving, cutting, blocking, crowding: Who’s driving this bike, is dangerous. Researchers are now trying to investigate the Problem scientifically.

By Christopher Schrader Christopher Schrader

Christopher Schrader is a freelance writer in the science Department of the süddeutsche Zeitung. He mainly writes about energy and climate topics in Geosciences, and engineering. Schrader is Nannen physicist and a graduate of the Henri school, the school of journalism of the publishing house Gruner+Jahr. He was editor of the SZ, Geo-Knowledge and the Swiss news magazine Facts.

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It is the nightmare for bike riders: You are on a Bicycle on the marked strip on a straight road and suddenly the driver of a dark SUV pulls at the steering Wheel to the side. So it is 2017 a cyclist in Melbourne, Australia happens: An SUV rammed him, he fell over the curb. The driver stormed out of his car, swore at the victim and threw the white road into the bushes.

This scene was even for Australian standards bizarre, although Bicycle riders in traffic anyway …