Self preservation is a pretty vague notion. That's the same reason my neighbor would give you for driving her H2, why my cyclist coworker won't ride a bike to work, and why half the bike riders I see (it's not many) are on the sidewalks.

I don't really want to speculate about the video because even with the blog narrative it doesn't tell the whole story. I'm also not advocating playing chicken with snow plows...

On the other hand, I imagine I would get very much the same reaction from my city government if I had a video of a school bus passing me with a 2-inch clearance. Judging from this thread, I could also expect a bunch of bicycle riders to condemn my motives for even having a camera on the bike.

I'm at somewhat of a loss... Random rider tells a story of being buzzed by a vehicle and everyone is quick to offer condolences and advice on how they should call the cops, etc. Hell, vigilante tactics are usually met with pats on the back. Same random rider has a video of the incident and aggressively pursues the incident and he's a troublemaker. Would we have felt better about it if he'd caught the driver at the next light and enacted chipcom "destroy thy enemy" justice?

This was just my inarticulate reaction to a whole thread of cyclists saying what most drivers think every day... the cyclist shouldn't be on the road.