So you think it's going to make you safer to just always yield your right of way, even when it's legally yours? If that's what you mean, I disagree. Besides being incredibly inefficient and submissive (contributing to drivers' superiority complexes over us), that would breed a lot of confusion. People expect you to go when you have the right-of-way, and when you don't, that leads to an uncertain situation. And uncertainty leads to danger, because it makes people behave unpredictably. The rules of the road exist for a reason: to make things more predictable, and therefore safer. It's true that some drivers (and cyclists) don't obey them, and you have to constantly be on the lookout for that. It does not follow that you're making yourself safer by just submitting your ROW to motorists whenever they're near you and interacting with you. You're messing up the orderly operation of the roads, too, if you do that, even though you're doing so in a passive way rather than an active way. As an example, I hate it when motorists who clearly have the right-of-way try to wave me through intersections thinking that they're being "nice". I usually just wave them off and sit there waiting for them to properly take their turn, because I've learned that it's not safe to take their "advice". Oftentimes, they won't be watching everything else that's happening, and their "courtesy" confuses other drivers who may then hit you. For example, an impatient driver behind them may try to go around them, or someone may go from a different direction because they didn't see the wave and they don't know why the driver isn't taking their turn properly.

The fact is, you do have to trust that other drivers will see you to some degree whenever you bike on a public road. It is not practically possible to "bike like you're invisible" in areas that have any degree of traffic. So, the best thing you can do is ride predictably and lawfully, so that you don't surprise them.

Please correct me if I'm misunderstanding you about what you mean.