Lest we blame too much on the drivers, let's pour one out for the traffic engineers who created the environment in which it's so easy to drive distracted and too fast. I heartily recommend the book, "Killed by a Traffic Engineer" by Wes Marshall. It's not bike-specific (so certainly not C&V bike-specific), but the foundation for the system of roads and highways we have today was laid long ago, well before any of us were born, so certainly within the C&V era.