As avid bikers, you are all familiar with assuming and managing risk. Every time you climb onto a bike you are accepting some element of danger. The same holds true on an A.M.A tour. No one ever described them as disciplined. Driving regulation and enforcement here is lax.
Oldsters drive like mummies.
Bus drivers drive like rhinos on steroids. This road-sharing problem is alleviated a great deal by the dearth of traffic on the majority of A.M.A routes. We purposely avoid commercial arteries. In many places you won't see more than a few cars every quarter-hour. Some route segments are nearly deserted the whole road feels like ours alone.