First the person who wrote "The main problem", has no clue. Most people are not commuting to work on a huffy. My bike cost about half of what a small car cost an more then the value of the average car on the road. Two if your on a bike and in the bike lane you have the right-of-way of that LANE. CA drivers have gone to jail for hitting bikers in the bike lane. I had a friend who was hit by someone turning right. Not badly hurt, him, the bike was total. The driver lost his driving rights on the base and had to pay for the bike. I have bike to work in many cities, east coast, west coast, gulfcoast and I have bike in more than 5 countries not counting Canada and Mexico. The U.S. is the only country I have seen that the drivers are so angry about bikers on the road. I have been hit five times, twice by angry drivers and one was in reverse. The last time it almost killed me. Hit and run and the police did file a report, just said that maybe bikes should not be in the road ( I was on a ten foot shoulder). I have stopped commuting to work on my bike, I am tired, after 30 years, of being hassled. I believe that cars and bikers can and do share the road. But there are idiots armed with a ton and half of steel that can swing the vote. but until the law starts treating bikers equaly and more motorist are charged, we will never gain the respect from that 1% that can flatten a biker. I have never read where a motorist was killed by a biker.