I'm fairly certain that the "pass" people give cars for breaking the rules has a lot less to do with the fact that they break so many, as that they are not part of the "other."

When the average driver sees a car break the rules, they put it down to "that's a bad driver." If they see a cyclist break a rule (and are not, by chance, also a cyclist), they'll say "cyclists are unsafe, can't ever follow the rules." It's not fair, but it's how it is. Breaking more rules won't reduce the effect of being, effectively, foreign.