>I think much of car drivers' anger towards cyclists treating red lights as stop signs is not so much the safety aspect as a feeling of unfairness that they are

>I think much of car drivers' anger towards cyclists treating red lights as stop signs is not so much the safety aspect as a feeling of unfairness that they are stuck at the light while the cyclist checks the road and then bikes through. Nobody on/around the roads using any mode of transit cares at all about any other thing on/around the roads so long as it is not in their way or otherwise about to cause them to need to take action to avoid a conflict. They don't like you as a cyclist because your actions are hard to predict sufficiently far in advance relative to the speeds at which you move. When you're walking do you care about the cars? No, of course not. Unless they're doing something that's likely to cause you to need to do something.