With more than 40 commuting hours under my belt this year, it's almost enough for a masters degree in some fields. Here's what I have learned.
Several theorems exist as to how people drive around cyclists on their way to work.
Where the road is widest, a driver passes without easing left over the centerline, but . . . Where the road is most narrow, a driver may go so far to the left to pass, that a bus could make a third lane between us. Based on personal experience, it is apparent that, at a certain speed, projectiles deform from their original shape, that's why cars that accelerate to near rocket speed before they catch up to us don't have to give us room because they get a foot thinner under these optimum acceleration conditions. Buicks, as they did when I was a kid, still make that rocket sound as they fly by under power. Cars, sure, failure to yield is their worst crime, but squirrels and birds sometimes don't yield either.