Never be complacent. Always stay alert and maintain situational awareness. Car drivers may look directly at you (make an eye contact) and still not register in their head and just pull out in front of you. Or they may not realize how fast you are traveling!!

Bike lanes in Southern California are routinely used as an extra car lane. The drivers will even honk and tail gate you. So yeah!!! scary. And only once 1985? 1986??, a motorcycle officer pulled over a car that was tail gating me in the bike lane and gave the driver a ticket. I stopped and made sure that the driver got a ticket. I do remember driver saying that the bikes don't belong on the road and was arguing with the officer. Not smart!!