My general thought is that you treat a bicycles the same as you treat a car when passing. The problem is that passing them with the same distance (move over one lane)you give a car may cause problems as you slow down to their speed until it is save to pass. Thus the 3 foot law seems like a good compromise to passing them like a car (say 8 ft.). Unfortunately some motorist and cyclists seem to lack common senses and no law will fix that.
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