Certainly in the UK, you have an absolute right to cycle on the road, but drivers are only licensed. I cycle to work every day, a significant minority of people have terrible observational and forward planning skills and very little anticipation. There isn't really a type, but older people and women seem to be worse. some mouth breather in a pickup beeped his horn at me for having the temerity of turning onto my drive. I saw him a few minutes later when I walked to get my hair cut and told him what I thought of his driving. I saw him again on Monday when I was on the tractor. his pickp didn't get quite as much room as other people get and there was a huge temptation to run a wheel down the side of his piss ant pickup.