Lane Filtering ...

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Interesting to read the comments section.

https://www.ksl.com/article/46575849/uhp...-education

Uh boy. Lots of confusion. This is what these states are going to see until a concerted effort is made to educate the public. Even after that, if a coherent public education program is attempted, it will still take years for the culture to change.

I can see this from the point of view of drivers in the states where filtering and splitting were never legal before: "You guys have dutifully sat in traffic like the rest of us for my whole life, now you think you're better than us and can go around us in traffic? That can't be right."

Even in California, splitting and filtering were just recently formally legalized (remember, we've been doing it for years because technically it wasn't illegal).
When the practice became legal, I was expecting to see at least a decent effort to let the motoring public know. I think I recall seeing an article in the AAA magazine, but that's about it.

Going back to one of my earlier statements, the CHP had tried to launch an education program for California drivers, before they were swatted down by the CA legislature. Their program was initiated because of a study conducted in California, where we have done this for years, that said that there was still an alarmingly large percentage of CA drivers who didn't know it was OK to split or filter.

I think we're going to be reading a lot of stories like this one for years to come.