Yes and no. Defensive driving in Portland against pedestrians and bicyclists is required well above what I'd grown accustomed in other cities. Yes, they have a

Yes and no. Defensive driving in Portland against pedestrians and bicyclists is required well above what I'd grown accustomed in other cities. Yes, they have a right. They pop out and around the cars in expected and very much unexpected ways. This reminds me of a sailing lesson. Smaller vessels have right of way. Sails have right of way over engine driven. A friend of a friend was sailing and came close to allowing his 30 foot sail boat to be run into by a mega ocean fairing cargo ship. He saw it coming at him, had plenty of time to drop sail, but refused to take action because "he had right of way" completely ignoring that the cargo ship needed a mile or more to meaningfully turn out of his path. The sailor was right. Right but stupid. Stupid might mean dead, and stupid people dying is evolution at work.