Ah yeah the pushy adventures. Worst I copped was a car reversing across the cyclepath, all the houses had brick walls so it came out of the blue so I skidded sideways and adorned both doors with a bike imprint. They asked "Are you alright," and I was "Yeah I'm ok, but you might want to look at your doors." Think I went over handlebars once as well, going down the biggest hill in the suburb, landed on a lawn luckily. Hire bikes at Rotto were ghosted off the main jetty to add to the artificial reef down there - funnily enough, just like today's hire bikes.
Texting while walking accidents:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl0JojWH1rQ
"...a bear on the loose..."
It's probably more a case of a suite of new technolgies, and we are all in the beta test of them.