I want one more motorcycle...maybe a supermoto

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I agree completely Ferret. I wonder how many accidents and deaths are directly related to lane splitting? With the cell phone era the only hope for safety is proximity activated brakes for vehicles. Must take the "lose nut" (the driver) out of the driving equation. What makes driving unsafe is poor performance by the vehicle operator.


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I'd guess there's very few deaths related to lane splitting in dead stopped traffic. It pretty amazing how often even a 5 lane freeway will be dead stopped out here. Every stoplight, you can count on me moving to or as close to the front of the line as possible. I save a lot of time this way, it doesn't harm anyone. In fact, getting me out of the line of car and in a space they cannot occupy allows everyone else to be further up in the line. Plus, unlike a car, if I'm stopped going straight at a light, anyone wanting to make a right turn behind me can easily get by me and make their turn. I don't know about you, but I get annoyed when I'm trying to make a right turn at a stoplight and there's just that one car going straight in the right hand lane blocking everyone from safely turning right on a red.

Lane splitting is no more unsafe than driving too fast around a blind turn, following to closely in traffic, or not checking your blind spot when changing lanes. Just as a competent driver knows how to safely drive, a competent lane splitter knows how to safely filter though traffic.

My hands are at the left and right extremes of my bike, I can see the exact position of my front tire and the read tire is the same 2 feet behind me it always is, I have a very clear understanding of when my bike will and will not fit. If my bike will fit there, I should be allowed to go there.