My opinion:
You're damned if you do and damned if you don't.
I find many risk factors involved on both sides but the main one that sticks out to me the most is negligence. Whether it's on the drivers side or not.
I'll accept the risk of 1 car to stop behind me while I've left myself a 20ft+ gap between the car in front of me for an emergency escape zone if need be. Once they've stopped along with the car behind them I'll slowly creep forwards to tighten the gap rather than risk going between 20+ cars and trucks slaloming between bigger trucks mirrors and hoping that one of those 20+ car's doesn't have an idiot of a driver who's going to try to change lanes at a complete stop, swing a door open for some random reason, or rest their elbow on the door and throw their entire arm out the window.
If people want to lane filter feel free to do it. I don't feel comfortable doing it in a city that has such piss poor drivers.
