>>>But there's some of it that makes this position at the edge more dangerous than walking just a meter away from that edge. Some drivers simply don't see bicycles, or when they see them, they forget them immediately or think they are still where they were when last seen. They tend to remember "I have a car behind me", but "I have a bicycle behind me" somehow doesn't register - which means they may take a sharp right or pull over in front of a biker they just passed and completely forgot about.
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>>I tend to see those situations most often as the biker forgetting that he/she has to follow the rules of the road and behave as though it is a motorized vehicle and when a car is in front of them slows down and turns right, the biker is required to slow down and yield just as a vehicle directly behind would. Instead you often see bikers disregarding the vehicle's turn signals and continue riding straight ahead into the car's path without stopping. Bicyclists are required to behave as a vehicle would and not a pedestrian.
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>>http://www.ncdot.org/transit/bicycle/laws/laws_bikelaws.html
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>We have a problem here with cyclists getting crushed under long vehicles turning left . They ride up the left hand side and then are in the drivers blind spot.

Since you all drive on that side of the road *G* it is a similar situation.

Here, when you are slowing down and turning right (only possible from the lane furthest to the right), you have to watch out for pedestrians crossing on the sidewalk. If a bike is on the sidewalk and crossing as a pedestrian, then you must yield as well. Anyone seeing a bike would yield regardless simply because there is only one possible outcome if you do not. However, no vehicle is expected to look behind them when they make a right-hand turn to see if there is a bike there or not. The bike riding in the motor vehicle lane must yield as a car would. Drivers look for pedestrians on pedestrian walkways or anything on the sidewalk or in the walkway but NOT in their lane coming up behind them on the right when there is no additional lane there.

Of course, we do not have the number of bicyclists here that you all have over there so it is not as common. If a semi is turning right and there is a bike behind him, I would think the bike rider coming up on a semi would stay out of that blind spot and watch for the vehicle turning right. Often a vehicle has no idea a biker has come up behind him in his own lane but to the right and is trying to 'squeeze by' as they often do. That really is the biker ignoring motor vehicle laws.

Regardless, I don't think any driver would intentionally disregard a biker if he knew he was there.