In my experience as both a cyclist and a driver in the Bay Area, I have no interest in the opinions of other cyclists on driver behavior. Cyclists largely disregard the rules of the road and then blame drivers.
As a driver, I have been at the receiving end of abusive gestures and language even when following the law. In one case, I yielded to a bicyclist who was in blatant violation of the law[0], because failure to do so would have endangered him. He showed me his middle finger. Another was angry that I was in the bicycle lane making a right-hand turn, as required by law and common sense.
As a cyclist, I have given up trying to educate my fellow cyclists, and generally won't ride with others anymore.
[0]I was already turning through the intersection after having made a stop. The bicyclist arrived in the middle of my turn and entered the intersection without stopping for the stop sign.
>As a cyclist, I have given up trying to educate my fellow cyclists, and generally won't ride with others anymore.
I don't know about the bay area, but in my city you can't really group ride, bike roads are single lanes. Yet people ride side by side all the time.
Personally, I found the best way to change the culture is to show an example. There is clearly an ongoing bicycle boom, and it shows many just follow the customs e.g. dashing through reds is acceptable (which is debatable) but it quickly turns out stopping for 20 seconds is not that big of a problem.
It is quite interesting though, the same people would never do that in a car.
Cameras frequently fail to capture context and released footage is often edited. Cameras often serve to justify existing biases.
I recently watched a video compilation put together by a truck driver who intended to show the dangerous behavior of passenger vehicles. It showed what it intended, but it also showed dangerous truck driver behavior. When this behavior was pointed out, the truck drivers in the comment section came up with many excuses for why this behavior was acceptable. One actually argued that in one of the scenarios the truck driver should not have had to yield (despite being required to do so by law) because accelerating back up to speed was expensive in terms of fuel.
So there was proof positive that this truck driver not only violated the law, but created an unsafe situation in a video specifically edited to show it was not truck drivers but passenger vehicles which caused unsafe situations, and this group of truck drivers defended the behavior.
In that case, the truck driver was ignorant and stupid. His behavior wasn't changed. And I see that a lot in YouTube videos about drivers of vehicle X complaining about drivers of vehicle Y. Anyone pointing out mistakes made by the driver of vehicle X is shouted down, nonsense about what is legal is posted (most of it wrong or incomplete), and everyone who drives a vehicle X shares their own (possibly apocryphal) stories about people driving vehicle Y.
So no, even with camera, I don't care much about the opinions of cyclists on drivers. Cameras can be good, but they can also be bad or indifferent, and nine times out of ten, I've got questions even after seeing the video.
As a driver, I have been at the receiving end of abusive gestures and language even when following the law. In one case, I yielded to a bicyclist who was in blatant violation of the law[0], because failure to do so would have endangered him. He showed me his middle finger. Another was angry that I was in the bicycle lane making a right-hand turn, as required by law and common sense.
As a cyclist, I have given up trying to educate my fellow cyclists, and generally won't ride with others anymore.
[0]I was already turning through the intersection after having made a stop. The bicyclist arrived in the middle of my turn and entered the intersection without stopping for the stop sign.
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