Comment by bmj

Americans are generally clueless about bike laws.

There, fixed that for you.

But they also end up keeping their car driver mentality of me-first and objectifying everything else on the road around them.

This is a great point, and I've observed the same behavior among analog cyclists as well (I've been a regular bike commuter for over 20 years in a city without much cycling infrastructure). Many cycling advocates don't realize that simply getting people on bikes isn't the end goal. It really needs to be about changing the way people move through space among their fellow citizens.