Here’s an example, this happened last Wednesday night. At a stoplight, three-way intersection. I was on the street that dead-ended at the light. The only way for me to turn left was to wait for a green. The street I was turning into had red on both sides. When I got the green, checked other traffic was stopped or stopping on both sides, I proceeded with my left turn. I was more than halfway through the turn, so my right fender was approaching the right curb of the street, where I was just starting to straighten out. A guy on a bike appeared at my right fender. I had to yank the wheel even further into the turn I was already making and brake in order to not over-correct into the cars waiting at the red light.
It wasn’t a matter of the cyclist signaling. He completely ran the red light, with the assumption that either I could see him or I would just avoid him somehow. Which I did, but only because I’m a halfway decent driver. These are the cyclists I have a problem with - they just assume cars at intersections will yield to them. He could have been 5 cars back when I started the turn - there’s no way I could have anticipated him because I couldn’t see him coming on the other side of the street, behind a line of cars. This being Chicago, with good public transportation and plenty of bikes on the road, a lot of these younger cyclists are also (I believe) NOT drivers themselves. They have no idea how much havoc they’re wreaking on the car drivers because they haven’t been behind the wheel themselves.
One of these times, I really won’t be able to avoid a collision, and we will have to let the cops shake out who was in the wrong while the bike rider takes a trip to the hospital. Will I deliberately accelerate just to hit a biker? Well, no. But I’m anticipating the inevitability of a collision sometime, and when it happens there will be no regret from me!