If you can’t split lanes what is the point of riding a bike? I am sure glad I don’t live in the States.
Biker babes/guys?
Oblig:
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If a driver around here wants to make a lane change, they use the element of surprise. Blinkers are used to signal victory, not intent. A biker would have to be VERY wary to not get caught by a lane-changer here. I worry about it. Oblivious and aggressive, they are.
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I am a rider, and I think riders who do lane split are complete idiots.
I think the law should be two fold…allow it to be legal, and also hold the rider in sole legal responsibility for any damages that may occur from the act.
Lane splitting is a good way of getting killed.
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You’re highly visible to me if I’m behind you or if you are centered directly behind me or if I’m driving my convertible with the top down. Otherwise, you’d do well to assume that you are not visible at all.
Great, thanks for leaving any points for the rest of us to rail on about. 
Wahahahahah!
Sure, as long as you don’t go wildly careening into other traffic when we start up again you’ve got a deal!
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…which is obviously why it is legal and routine pretty much everywhere except America.
(been splitting lanes in Sydney traffic every day for twenty years; never spilt a drop of blood or a scratch of paint)
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I’d go further and make lane splitters by definition.
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though if the bike stops too please don’t sit in my blind spot then get angry at me for not being able to see you.
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Sure, as long as you don’t go wildly careening into other traffic when we start up again you’ve got a deal!
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I won’t careen, though if a neighboring lane starts to move before mine does and there is a car-sized gap I might try to jump quickly into it.
For that I don’t fault you, and that’s why we’ve got our eyes on you. 
It would be helpful if you likewise made it possible for us to keep our eyes on you. Try to make yourself, as @jamesnsc would say, “highly visible”.
I knew somebody who died in a serious accident. He was 78. If you keep going long enough, one day you’re going to lose concentration.
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Okay, that too
Twenty-two years and counting; they haven’t got me yet.
Incidentally, I’m reminded of an old .sig file from aus.motorcycles: “Accidents are for bedwetters and Volvo drivers; I don’t have accidents, I crash…”
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Word .
Target fixation was not something I learned until it snowed one day. Fortunately I learned it the easy way by knocking over some traffic cones in a parking lot. I’ve come to a secondary realization about snow: People who complain that no one knows how to drive in snow are the most likely to not know how to drive in snow.
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IMHO, the most practical and reasonable application of lane splittig is advancing to the head of the line at traffic lights. there is minimal risk, and it gets you out of the way of texting motorists intent on turning you into a bologna sandwich.
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Most of driving in snow is…don’t. Wherever you are going in a snowstorm is probably not really that important. Learn to listen to weather. This has been a longtime conflict with my wife, who is extremely reluctant to let her plans be changed by blizzards etc. The rest of driving in snow is GO SLOW!! Maybe people in places that get hundreds of inches every winter really DO know how to drive in snow, but in NJ every asshat with a 4x4 think’s they’re all set to drive like it was dry, which means 20mph over the speed limit.
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Our first snow of the year (usually early November or late October), there’s a bunch of cars off the road just because people haven’t practiced driving in snow in a whole 5 months and don’t have their snow tires on yet.
But consistently in the winter there are wrecked cars littering the roads, mostly out of state SUVs and other 4/AWD vehicles, driven by those who do not understand that the same mechanism that helps them move does not help them at all when it comes to slowing down.
