Interesting article. I always found it amusing that, as a cyclist, you are always wrong (at least here). If you go, someone gets upset that you went; if you stop, someone gets upset that you didn't go and impeded traffic somehow. If you ride on the sidewalk, someone walking their dog yells at you to get on the street; when you're on the street, and in the bike lane even, someone gets upset that you're not on the sidewalk (just happened to my wife yesterday).
Why do driver's hate cyclists? Probably because, just like drivers that drive like they have to get home right NOW because Tupac was just resurrected and is signing a new record contract in their living room, there are also "cyclists" who get arrogant and sometimes try to peeve off drivers, as if the vehicular world owes them something of a favor in the way of letting them do whatever they want in the streets.
As for me, I keep an eye on the laws so that I know that, in the event of a confrontation, I would be backed by the law; and as importantly I keep to myself, mostly stay out of people's way, and use good judgment and common sense...or at least I think that's what I do.