OMG, you sent me to look at the video again.

This was a side lane, apparently for passenger loading or unloading at the hotel, or at least to prevent stopped traffic on the main road. So WTF did the cyclist expect when a cab pulled up to the door of a hotel?

IMO this is the result of bad laws that unreasonably entitle cyclists and raise expectations of protection out of proportion with reality. I'm not talking of anti-dooring rules in general, only those that apply to the cubside (if this one does).

Any sympathy I might have had for the cyclist is gone, and I can understand how the people involved could feel that cyclists have become arrogant and out of control. (by the way, the cyclists opening words didn't help).

Regadless of any specipic laws, people have to use some common sense. A cab stops at a hotel. Common sense says someone is going to open the door to enter or exit. Parked at a curb a passenger wouldn't expect a cyclist on sliding past on the cub side.

This accident could also have been prevented by the cab driver by stopping closer to the curb preventing the cyclist from doing a dumb thing. But in the final analysis, cyclists can't and shouldn't count on others doing everything possible to protect them from their own stupidity.