I think the video illustrates what blind people are scared of, even if the circumstances aren't entirely realistic. I suspect that if he'd proceeded to cross the cycleway, the cyclists would have either slowed/stopped or changed course to avoid him, until somebody fucks it up. (There was a high-profile incident that went round the disability twitterwebs recently where a cyclist collided with a blind person's cane on a pelican crossing.)
Humans are shit at judging risk. People have disproportionate levels of fear of things that are rather unlikely. The fact that we can pull up the example of the one person who's cane was hit by a cyclist, shows how rare it is, It was newsworthy by it's rareness.
How do blind people cope with independent mobility in .nl? Do cyclists give way to them? I know Dutch version of pelican crossings are reasonably VI-friendly, with the clickers being a more informative version of the beeper+cone arrangement we have here, but what happens in less formal space?
The snide answer is that you tend to hear a Dutch bike coming, the rattle, the squeak...
But the honest answer, is I don't know, in the 1000's of km of cycling I've done in .nl, I've yet to have an interaction with person with a cane, at least that I am aware of. Fully sighted, dumb tourists on the other hand...
I recently almost got wiped out by a brommer on the road outside my house. I was crossing the fietspad, having looked left, and a brommer coming the wrong way down the fietspad almost hit me. A neighbour shouted a warning just in time. Seems that one-way fietspaden are not necessarily treated as such...
Electric brommers are becoming more pervasive, which is going to make things interesting, they are pretty new, and so tend to be well maintained, and are completely silent. There is a move to get the Brommers out the fietspaden, but that is mostly driven by racism, rather than any other reason. I like the idea of getting the brommers out, they are a bloody menace, I just with it wasn't so obviously driven by racism by the Gemente, there are plenty of valid reasons they could have used.
J