Motorcycles should only split lanes in stopped or slow-moving traffic (specifically, below 50 miles per hour, per the previously cited study), and they should keep their speed differential within 15 miles per hour of the rest of traffic (more than that is where your chances of injury begin to climb, the research concluded).
and research facts:
“Lane-splitting riders were less likely to suffer head injury (9% vs 17%), torso injury (19% vs 29%), extremity injury (60% vs 66%), and fatal injury (1.2% vs 3.0%),” the researchers concluded.“
It doesn't cover new ground, or hit new facets of the issue, but, it is good to keep the awareness up, lane splitting is legal in California, but that doesn't mean bikers can legally zip and zoom through normal speed interstate traffic at 70+ miles an hour. Happens all the time, and there is no logical reason, because just like cars speeding, the bikers CAN use a damn turn signal, and just weave through traffic without freaking out drivers who are knocked out of normal life by a rocket brushing the side mirror by your left elbow.
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