So, today, I was sitting at a red light, turning left. The road I was on was one lane each direction (both sides of the intersection) and the perpendicular road was the same, but with a right turn lane on both sides of the intersection.

I was sitting just ahead of the stop line, clearly waiting for the light. I was on the right cutout for the induction loop traffic light sensor (in hindsight, maybe I should have been on the left one, since I was turning left). A car arrived behind me, and stopped before the stop line, leaving me approx 4 feet of space.

Once the light turned green, I brought my foot up to the pedal, and creeped slowly forward, waiting for the car on the other side of the intersection to turn right, before I crossed his path to go to the shoulder. The car behind me hit the gas, swerved around me to the left, and cut me off. He even managed to squel his tires in the process. If I had been going any faster, then I would have been right in his path.