Originally Posted by phoebeisis

Equinox-you wrote-the below
Being in a cage is a miserable experience, and that probably puts them in a bad mood to begin with. It has to be something because most road cyclists I know defer to motor vehicles 99.9% of the time. By "defer", I mean cedeing their legal right out of a sense of courtesy and survival. Motorists have FAR bigger issues with other motorists than with us.

I have to agree with PatrickGS- driving a car isn't miserable-certainly not that road-which as PatrickGS mentioned-Sat. am low traffic volume-pretty landscape- why would that be miserable?
Now commuting-heavy traffic both ways-time constraints-yeah miserable-

But USA 1950's-1960's type road trip-stopping side of road-pull out ice chest-cheese sandwich ham and Cheese mustard-cold coke or OJ- chocolate milk-grapes apples oranges good bread butter
stopping to walk dog at rest stops-talk to fellow dog/catg owners-while driving across the SW or NE east coast
Skyline drive Blue Ridge parkway
Sleep in back of vehicle(save money)
Yeah something to be said for car travel-actually seeing country-meeting strangers-pass time of day

Now the rest of your statement- defer to drivers ceding legal because of courtesy.survival
is right but incomplete
Mostly we FRAP because it costs us NOTHING- win win-
Yes LC/VCs will insist it is unsafe to FRAP
I will insist LC is more dangerous
None of us have actual data to back up our positions-so..
But it hardly matters since very very few folks LC position-