While I agree with you wholeheartedly MJR, I think you're missing the point.
It's a question of human nature and expectation, not of statistics and physics.
From the moment a child learns to speak it will bleat the words, "its not fair."
And they're right, it isn't fair.
However, the fact that there may a very good physical, statistical or legal reasons why it isn't fair cuts no ice with the baying masses of middle England, the very baying masses who's votes politicians crave so obsessively.
All the baying masses see is cyclists behaving like loons, even if that isn't really the case at all, and the danger is someone somewhere will think there's a vote or two in it if they push for legislation to put a stop to it.
It's wrong, for all the reasons you cite, but that's the reality we may end up facing if we continue to take the piss, even if we know full well we're doing nothing of the sort.
The annoying nail that sticks out is inevitably the one that gets hit first by the hammer.
I know full well the cyclists in the vid have done nothing wrong, be it legally, morally, or probably in terms of safety, but it's not the likes of you and me we need to worry about when it comes to politicians listening to an outraged middle England screaming for action. We've had enough ridiculous legislation and events over the last decade because the public have been whipped up into a sufficient frenzy that a politician somewhere thought there was some mileage in doing something about it. Let's not let us be the next victim of that phenomenon, and we need to be careful because as a user group we don't have that many influential political friends at the present time.
