I almost ran over guy on a recumbent bike. I drive a Tahoe and he was way below my line of sight, I would have seen a regular bike or a pedestrian. I was waiting for the traffic to pass so I could back out of my parking space. I caught a glimpse of him in my side mirror and slammed on my brakes just in time.
He got mad at me and started yelling but I was even madder so I started screaming at him. I told him how stupid he was to ride that low bike on such a busy street.
When a bicycler gets killed the biking community paints and old bike white, calls it a ghost bike and chains it to a light pole near the accident, there are quite a few around now. Bikers beware.
Recumbents are indeed a good deal more dangerous for exactly this reason. Smart riders attach a flag or something, but that only helps some, it doesn’t solve the visibility problem.
BTW, riding at night is a lot less dangerous than it used to be.
They now have very reasonably priced LED lights that are brighter than a car’s headlights. I suspect I’m in general more easily visible at night than in the daytime.