As everyone knows, though, even the most experienced bike rider can have his head handed to him by any auto driver on any day. All it takes is a moment of inattention by the auto driver (or vice versa)
I'm not minimizing the risk.
I saw the aftermath of a couple of bad bike accidents one where a couple of guys leaving a bar decided to run a light as at the same time an 18 wheeler drove into the intersection.
They hit the dolly crank on the trailer doing 90 and the whole side of the trailer was one big spray pattern.
Weird thing is I felt sorry for the truck driver who was trying to do CPR on a couple of dead kids at three in the morning when he was working on a two hour milk run.
He had to carry that aroung for the rest of his life.