yeah car culture in the US is so vile I'm not sure other countries understand. Drivers will get pissed at you for using cross walks with the walk signal. In many areas pedestrians get stuff thrown at them (the Dwarf Fortress brothers talked about that one and it's true). People call police on pedestrians.
@selfsame I used to commute to work on my motorcycle when I lived in Seattle. On occasion a driver would look me dead in the eyes, and decide that I will have to get out of the way, then merge directly into me, forcing me off the road. Note I said on occasion, not once. This kind of thing happened on a regular basis.
