Who wants perfection... I just don't want the opposite, which I do encounter... which is motorists deliberately violating me by doing any thing but "treating me as a driver of a vehicle."
There is dependancy in the VC doctrine... it is like an equation and thus has balance on either side of the equal sign. Cyclist fare best when they act AND are treated like drivers of vehicles.
I have suggested time and time again that at a minimum, drivers need to understand their role... which you have denied over and over again.
We don't cycle in a vacuum... we share the roads. Drivers need to understand the expectations we have of them. Period. Otherwise the equation is broken.
And that in a nutshell is the bottom line to the OP... that the "flaw" of the VC doctrine is that the other users of the system, motorists, don't know how to treat us. Nobody bothered to tell them. And with that information missing, they use what ever misinformation dances in their heads.
BTW motorists have been told... it is in Driving handbooks and is briefly mentioned in Drivers ed... but is a quiet whisper and so long ago that it is lost in all the other "noise." The concept just needs to be shouted from the rooftops so that it really sinks in. And what the heck, cyclists will hear it too.
