Sorry, but still sounds to me like an involuntary vote for Team Van, whether you like to admit it or not. I'm neither a bike driver nor a car driver, but as a sometime car passenger on a country lane stuck behind a tractor, I've shared in the car driver frustration often enough. Tho I can...
Not a bikey by any stretch of the imagination, but one of my mates who is, reckoned that in town, the safest thing for a cyclist to do was make himself BIG i.e. stick to the centre of the lane, so as not to get squashed by far bigger, far more potentially lethal vehicles. Not quite sure the same...