Again, cars and cicycles are not meant to be together on the same roads. We can't help it, but we should try to divide the two streams of traffic.
There is more: there is no dialogue between road design, car production and users; it's like everyone is thinking for himself all the time. The cars are getting bigger and bigger, the governments (at all levels) want to favour cycling and slow mobility and keep narrowing the roads down even more than the sheer size of the vehicles is doing alone, the traffic of all kind ("hey, I'm working here!") is increasing and the speed, acceleration and braking differential between the vehicles will push the car, any car, to overtake (that's basic psychology).
The results are in this video. That is not a strange event, that is common practice. I see situations like that (except the hit, of course) multiple times every day. If you don't, it's because I live in a city with narrower roads than you are. You probably will see that happening too in future, believe me.
The cyclist (which is too angry with the whole world and a bit self-righteous, in my opinion) is riding to avoid car doors (how can you blame him?), the driver (which is a bit in a hurry-up disposition - but hey, what do you expect to find in a caffeine-rushed world with an efficiency-frenzy?) is quite bad at choosing his time and is not that confident with his ridiculously big vehicle, but is not driving unsafely and is actually trying to avoid endangerments, as you can see from the first part of the video.
The point is: the cyclist is so slower (and he's a fast cyclist - imagine the scene with a slow-moving old lady) that the car will try to overtake him, at some point. The road is narrow, though, so the manoeuvering space is small, and even when the intention is clearly not-endangering, the resulting action might not be. Because human beings are fallible.
In other words: s**t happens. And since the margins for these kind of things are being reduced (for all the idiotic reasons) more and more, this will tend to happen more and more frequently as time will go on.
What will our governments do? They will react by slowing down the cars even more, narrowing down the streets even more, creating wider cycling boxes and lanes and raise the legislative rights of cyclists so much as to become unfair to other road users. In the name of safety (psychological and ideological safety), the roads will be set to cycling speed. But the cars will still be produced and sold to have that dominant, performant, lumbering characteristics that will make them a hell in city traffic. Because they sell what our psychology makes us want to buy. And the world itself will require [crazy mode]SPPEEEEEEEED!!!![/crazy mode]. So we will found ourselves in a very pretty schizophrenic world of anxiety, frustration and angryness ("they freaking clog up the road!" - "You arrogant motorized nazi!" - "meatbag" - "mofo!" - or just listen to what they say in the video...).
Shouldn't we rethink a whole lot of our ways of moving around?
