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Originally Posted by corollagtSr5
They were mentioning Thailand so I used California where they have similar laws where it's legal. Anyways, that motorcycle is going pretty fast. Also that vehicle switched lanes on a solid line, which is illegal. That link I posted is statistics in California. The idea is to reduce rider damage from being rear ended as well as reduce traffic congestion as you are a faster vehicles. It's illegal here so you shouldn't be doing it.
"Proponents of lane splitting state the Hurt Report of 1981 reached the conclusion that lane splitting improves motorcycle safety by reducing rear end crashes.[21] Lane splitting supporters also state that the US DOT FARS database shows that fatalities from rear end collisions into motorcycles are 30% lower in California than in Florida or Texas, states with similar riding seasons and populations but which do not lane split."
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yup, illegal to switch lanes on a solid line, but if you take hwy 1 and look at the hov lane, its only dotted close to exits/on ramps, but that doesn't stop thousands of people a day from jumping in and out of that lane. Especially if its rush hour and their in the hov lane to carpool, traffic is less than desirable and they need to get out of the hov lane soon. They don't wait till the last second to leave when the lane breaks into dotted lines, they get out when they find a gap that they can squeeze into.
Anyways, I'm not going to drag this on, I said what I wanted to say about how I've been noticing it happening lately and how unsafe the riders are when they do it and since its illegal, was their anything that can be done about it.