First, it wasn't me in the car. I do however find myself riding as he describes. I'll take a lane if I absolutely have to but I hate it. I've been in about ten accidents while driving. All but one were rear enders. In one of these I was stopped on the front row of a red light on one of the four lane with center turn lane roads the OP talked about. A car hit the car behind me, pushed it into me and we all three went all the way through the intersection. I killed two kids in the back seat of the middle car. If I had been sitting in the same spot on a bike they never would have found all my body parts. Too many drivers have their heads somewhere else and won't see a bike in front of them. Or another car, or even a dump truck. I would rather be buzzed than ran over. But that's just me.

SB