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It doesn't seem to. There's something about the protective car-bubble that makes people feel safe. I had to point out to some bloke who was getting progressively more leary that fat middle aged men shouldn't really be getting aggressive with bigger, fitter, younger men who have a fucking great lump of steel chain around their waist. That's when he paused for a moment to think and then drove off, still shouting crap at me.
But he might be careful of the next cyclist though.
What sensible argument can you make with idiots at the time, "So, you just effectively just overtook me, then cut straight across me?"
That point when you're riding on the inside of the cars, effectively running a two-lane road but without marked lanes is a tricky one. We know the cars are in the wrong, but it's easy for the muppets to do that to you without thinking. And at the time, they think they're in the right, because it feels like they haven't done anything wrong. I always feel like you need to just leave them with a question or two, so that they go away and answer it in their own time after they have calmed down.