answer:I don’t know what others think, but I’ll tell you my thinking. I will blow through stop signs and red lights and I’ll play a kind of eyeball chicken with motorists when I’m riding my bike. Understand, I’m not daring anyone and I don’t want to create an accident, but I believe that I am being safe, even though I’m breaking the law. As a bicyclist, I have to provide my own power for my travel. The thing I hate most is having to use my brakes to come to a stop, and then having to start from nothing again. I will do an awful lot to avoid having to put on the brakes. So when I come to a stoplight or stop sign, if there are good lines of sight, and I don’t see any cross traffic, then I’ll run the light. If I see a another car at a four way stop sign, then I engage in eye contact, and indicate that I’m not stopping, and then proceed to pass through without stopping. If I can’t engage in eye contact to be sure they saw me, then I will slow down. Mostly drivers seem to understand that they have big powerful cars, and huge gas pedals and that it is up to them to stop in my favor, but every once in a while there are asshole drivers who deliberately don’t see you and make you stop, and you know they are laughing to themselves that they made you stop. It is very rude. In the sense of the balance of the universe, not the law. By law, they have the right of way. But not by karma (no pun intended). I do not go as far as many bicyclists will. I always make sure I can stop if someone else blocks my way. I will always be supercareful riding up on the blind side of a car. I see younger riders take many more risks. Maybe they can stop faster. But many of them are riding fixies (no brakes and only one, fixed gear), and they can’t stop. They have to blow on through. As a driver, I will always give extra room to cyclists. I will hold back at intersections to let them go ahead. I will be extra careful moving into the right lane to make sure they haven’t come up along side me. That sort of thing. There is a karma of travel, I think. I believe that human powered vehicles should be given right of way. That’s because stopping costs human powered travel so much more in terms of energy than it does gas-powered locomotion. Also cars go so much faster, so making them stop isn’t as much of a problem as it is for a bicyclist to stop. In addition, I believe that human powered travel should be encouraged, and while I don’t think laws will ever be changed to privilege that form of travel, I don’t have a problem acting as if we are privileged, so long as we can do it without undue risk.