Car vs. Bicycle

This post reminded of when I was hit by a car. Or, more properly, when a car backed out right in front of me. I was riding in a straight line down a residential street and I clearly had the right of way.

Once I had gotten up the driver protested that he "didn't see me" as I had "come out of nowhere" or something. This was on a road that is dead straight its entire length. It's not enough that they hit me, their initial impulse, despite the overwhelming evidence was to attempt to suggest that I had appeared from nowhere as to invite an accident on myself.