Yeah, so does everyone else, bicyclists and drivers.

Please, this is not the place to be judgemental about others' decisions. Everyone has their own levels of risk tolerance and people have adequately pointed out the dangerous parts of Central.

If​ that's not your cup of tea, fine. I have ridden Central from Mountain View to San Jose airport and find it preferable to surface streets because it is predictable where cars will be entering and exiting. There is one relatively narrow section of shoulder near SJC, and one should take care crossing the light rail tracks in Mountain View, but otherwise the bike lane is fine.

I am not surprised that someone has been killed on Foothill, but people are killed on almost every road. Foothill is a major cycling corridor between Sunnyvale and Palo Alto with a relatively wide, we'll marked bike lane. Most alternative routes are going to subject a rider to more potential for roadway conflict due to a higher number of crossings and entrys/exits.

I have balanced the risks and rewards of biking on these expressways vs. their alternatives, and I ride the expressways. Please don't make value judgements about me just because I do.