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I think that on the whole, the percentage of idiot car drivers and the percentage of idiot riders is likely to be about the same. The problem is that idiot bike riders are playing with a lot higher stakes.
I drive Melbourne western ring road daily, traffic is crap, it has been for the whole nine years I have worked where I am except for a short period of bliss in the middle without roadworks. I see plenty of cars barging their way around and being generally antisocial in a vain attempt to get ahead in the traffic. Several times a week I see riders lane splitting through moving traffic at speeds that leave even observant drivers virtually no reaction time at all. you decide on a lane change, start looking in your mirrors, see nothing, look again, still see nothing and halfway through the lane change see the bike coming through between the cars behind you at double your speed. I rate those riders about the same as I do the drivers you see on a daily basis belting along the emergency lane at 70KMH past the nearly stopped traffic, the difference is that there is bugger all the coppers can do about the lane splitters without roving motorcycle coppers doing the same themselves to catch them.
Most "Bad" bike behavior I tend to turn the other cheek, but I will have a much more sympathetic ear to complaints about "Idiots in their cages" when idiots on bikes stop lane splitting at high speed in heavy traffic.
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