u something guys sometime tring to be safe is what gets ppl hurt safty is a large part commonsense is you dont have that go hide your life. someone did a study a few years back that showed it takes the autoboun in germany (no spell check) 5 years to have the amount of collision that the U.S.A HAVE IN ONE YEAR and dont have a speedlimit
The reason the Autobaun is safer than U.S highways is that the driving culture there has more common sense and listens to the law. The law being, that slower traffic MUST use the right lane. So once you've passed all the cars slower than you, you get back in the right lane. That makes a big difference. Parts of the Autobaun have speed limits now too, due to the amount of traffic, especially rush hours.
American drivers as a majority are complete idiots and have no business being on the road. It's too easy to get a drivers license here.
I'm a local tractor trailer driver, and drove over the road for about 6 months 8 years ago. The amount of people that pull out in front of trucks is amazing. I'm surprised more of them aren't dead.
Sitting up higher in a truck you get a good view down into cars. The amount of people texting is hard to belive, as well as many other pointless distractions; reaching in the floor and backseat, putting on makeup, and even reading books and newspapers! That should be enough for a suspended license.
The majority of the American attitude(as well of the rest of the world)is becoming more and more about "Me", and to heck with anyone else.
I constantly see drivers getting worse and worse, if you can belive that's possible.
Even driving into oncoming traffic for 100' or more, just so they don't have to sit in traffic to wait to turn into a shopping center, and this is daily!
Every day(yes, every day)at least once and usually more, I have to swerve and/or lock down the brakes to keep from hitting some idiot that weaves into my lane because they are texting.
With all that said, I have nothing against lane splitting, and it'll be useful in certain situations. But, in most cases I personally wouldn't take the risk. Even some prick opening a car door because they don't want you to be able to pass them.
If lane splitting was 50 state legal tomorrow, it would take a long time for most drivers to be aware of it...not that it would really matter.
If you can creep through cars in a traffic jam, that's great, I would just use extreme caution. Too many self centered idiots out there oblivious to anything going on around them. Who cares if they knock a bike over, it shouldn't have been there anyway; that'll be the majority's attitude.
)of bikes coming up between the lanes and will slide over to give you plenty of room to pass.During rush hours out here freeway traffic can slow to a crawl for hours and I'm glad I don't have to go 5 mph for an hour or two in 90+ degree heat in a leather jacket and helmet(I once rode 17 miles[at 10-15 mph]lane splitting while traffic was stopped dead because of a car fire that(along with a fire truck)had all lanes blocked(those cagers may still be sittin' there
