The best favor you can do all other traffic is to be as predictable and unremarkable in your actions as possible so that they may reliably plan their actions around yours.
I'm 49 and I've been driving since I was 16.
You can absolutely react to hazards without appearing skittish, which also alerts other traffic to the hazard if they're paying close attention.
Trying to drive like a robot all the time is something that actual novice drivers think makes them better drivers.
My point is you look like a novice in the eyes of the other drivers because the only information they have is that you're having a harder time than everyone else passing the cyclist(s).
>You can absolutely react to hazards without appearing skittish, which also alerts other traffic to the hazard if they're paying close attention.
I agree
In my experience, this is because the other drivers are just rolling the dice and passing on blind curves or passing in the same lane with barely any clearance. It's not an example of good driving ... but it is predictable.
All that other stuff in this thread about safer road design is really about removing the need to think about how to drive. So instead of making it so drivers need to give cyclists room, safe road design would just give them that room. But in the absence of those safer designs, people just need to drive more safely.
Thanks for the strawman. My point is that doing so to an extent that is anomalous compared to other traffic sends up red flags.