agree with that.

I find 'trust, but verify' a meaningless, vacous, cold war slogan being used as some type of traffic advice when its really nonsense. Verify a car has seen you? please. as a cyclist, you verify nothing. even a car stopped with a driver looking straight at you may pull out, even after you've supossedly 'verified' the driver has stopped for you. as in Gene's examples.

I find 'trust, but verify' a misappropriation of a cold war slogan that actually DOESN'T carry over to riding technique. you as a rider get to verify nothing about the automobiles. until they've ceased to be a concern, at which time you could verify you've passed them safely, i guess.

worthless musings of an armchair cyclist (not YOU, slow and steady) do you actually say to yourself "trust, but verify" when you pass other traffic? that's ridiculous in my personal, high mileage opinion. you're free to do what you want, but the advice to

"verify" a driver sees you, using some visual cue, before you put yourself in potential conflict zone is HIGHLY UNREALISTIC for on road riding.