Your post is typical example of self-righteous and egotistical attitude of cyclists. Making cars less safe would make other people suffer more, and riding with

Your post is typical example of self-righteous and egotistical attitude of cyclists. Making cars less safe would make other people suffer more, and riding with pedestrians would endanger the pedestrians. How can one even suggest to explicitly increase danger that way for others in order to decrease danger for themselves?. Instead, I'd suggest the cyclists look at themselves. In my experience (Bay Area, mostly PA/MV/Sunnyvale) cyclists are less educated in traffic rules, less respectful of those rules and less polite than any other traffic participants - from riding wrong side of the road and riding on sidewalks to riding while reading smartphone to flying over STOPs to angrily banging on my car for taking over the bike lane before right turn as rules dictate (yep, hard to believe, yet it is true - i'm standing waiting for cross traffic to pass, and that cyclist instead of waiting behind me squeezes between me and the sidewalk while several times angrily banging on my car's roof while making the face - the poor moron had obviously no idea about the traffic rules, and that that specific rule is precisely for his own safety).