One can only hope.
The Shop Rides here are a major source of problems and fodder
for angry bourgeois at town meetings to rightfully rant about
roads being clogged, bikes running stop signs 25 at a time and
open urination. I attend these meetings whenever they are made
public and I can assure you the home vids Ive seen of good,
wholesome and worthy cyclists behavior is beyond deplorable.

Lots of drivers dont like cyclists. period. Riding nicely will
never change that. Personally, I think if the bicycle industry
would pay a few rap personalities to promote cycling it
would turn everything around. Milquetoast America is infatuated
with the contrived MTV gangster kulture so having a few of
Americas coolest and hippest 'stars' profile on bikes would give
it instant respect and street creds. If they made prison life,
misogyny and drug dealing look cool, bicycles would be a piece of cake