Quote Originally Posted by PamNY View Post
If both the shoulder and the turnouts are dangerous, and she can't safely stop or slow down, what does she plan to do if a car is coming toward her?
She can see the oncoming car. She can't see the car behind (and most cycling fatalities, here at least, result from being hit from behind).

She can choose her own line past the oncoming car. She can't control the overtaking clearance the following car leaves her.

The road is 1.5 lanes wide so there is half a lane which the car won't be hogging. The oncoming driver will not be texting, talking on the phone or drunk and will be sharing the road, so its driver might even politely drop a wheel off the edge. After all it has an alphabet soup of safety devices to protect its occupants, while the other road user has nothing.