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Originally Posted by Tcoat
The unfortunate part is that I rarely see it done responsibly. When a bike splits lanes at twice the speed of traffic and then gets creamed by a car changing lanes everybody screams that cars don't watch out for bikes.
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Originally Posted by extrashaky
How does splitting lanes prevent a distracted idiot on her cell phone from change lanes right into your path?
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IDK why this thread is bringing up lane splitting, qcbaker mentioned it and it doesn't even pertain here.
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extrashaky it doesn't really prevent someone suddenly changing lanes, it does prevent an accident at a slow speed or near stop situation like here. This accident didn't even involve someone changing lanes into someones path if I read it correctly.
Trust me, you won't see it done responsibly until you go to the UK, California or other places where it's legal and inherent to the motorcycle courses and training. It is indeed safer than people think.
If you're splitting properly you wouldn't be in line with traffic you'd be out of the traffic line and between the furthest #1 and #2 lanes (as far left lane as possible). Therefore you'd be at the front of the line closest to the light and it'd be way less likely to be rear ended as you'd be sitting forward of the traffic line as well as near or on the lines dividing lanes.
But I digress lane splitting has nothing to do with this accident and wouldn't have prevented it if this FR-S was magically a motorcycle it would've been even worse, nor does it do anything at speeds higher than 20 mph because it only makes you look like an asshole.....