If you’re in to numbers, less than 4% of car/bike crashes are of a car hitting a cyclist from behind.
And so what if they are honking? That just means they see you!

The whole point to the green stripe is to give motorists and cyclists a visual of the rights that were already there. If the lane is too narrow to share, you should automatically take it, rather than put yourself at risk of being doored or other hazards that may be to the right in any narrow lane. If the lane is wide enough for you and a motorist to share, then so be it. You should at least have about 3 feet of breathing space if that’s the case though. Don’t be intimidated by drivers behind you. They have the left lane to merge into if they’re going straight through.

“Taking space away from cars? Ouch. When late to work, it pains a driver to slow down for a bunch of bicyclists hogging the roadway. In the past, you might have tried to steer around them. These days, they are right in front of the car. ”

You see, the problem isn’t people being late for work, distracted in their cars, driving improperly… no. If only bicyclists would just stop trying to exercise their ‘rights’ and stay in the glass-and-debri-filled gutter, where they BELONG, and out of my damn way, then we wouldn’t have to hit the damn bicyclists.

When traffic is going fast, I have stayed to the right and let cars overtake me. But, I think the intended idea is to “share” the lane. Treat it like a full lane for bike or car. Let the overtaking car pass in the left lane. That doesn’t make me feel too comfortable though with the thought of cars tailing me, if they can’t move over!