stupid move and maybe this is why I get seriously injured.

[lph]

I think that what often looks like blatant aggression and an attempt at serious physical harm is "just" a combination of mild irritation and plain cluelessness from a drivers point of view. Many, many drivers have no idea what it's like to be on a bike, and how a close move can feel - and be - life-threatening. Moves that are annoying or a bit snarky between drivers, causing a bit of honking and gesturing, can feel like being hunted down to a cyclist, and they don't even know it. They don't know what it's like to be balanced on two wheels, they don't what how puny our brakes are compared to car brakes, they haven't ever travelled at high speed with the whoosh of passing cars felt straight on their face and body. Which is no excuse, but that's just how it is...

I really really wish that getting a drivers licence included a mandatory bike riding clinic, on the road, in traffic, the works. We would get better bike riders and better car drivers at the same time.