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Re:Forget self-driving car anxiety: In the early days human ... by jdavis703 on Sunday November 06, 2016 @11:22PM (#12888791)
Your big loud bike can actually be pretty hard to hear when the windows are up and music is playing. It's gotten to the point where I keep my windows rolled down and my music low when traffic is heavy enough for lots of bikes to be lane splitting, because otherwise it's almost impossible to know they're coming.
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Re:Forget self-driving car anxiety: In the early days human ... by jlgaddis on Sunday November 06, 2016 @11:45PM (#12888872)
Lane splitting is just crazy, in my opinion. It's not legal where I live (midwest US) but I see people doing it every time I'm in California. I don't think I'd do it even if it were legal.
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Re:Forget self-driving car anxiety: In the early days human ... by ollie87 on Monday November 07, 2016 @03:49AM (#12889695)
It's actually a lot safer in places that are more congested and have a lot of stop-start traffic. For example, here in the UK, if you sit at the back of a queue of traffic on a motorcycle a truck might not see you and rear-end you. Getting rear-ended by a truck isn't great on a car, but on a bike? Not good.

Instead if you filter and split lanes and get to the front of the queue of traffic you're not only safer but also out of the way of that wave of traffic, since you're on two wheels and can accelerate away much faster than the rest of the traffic. This then allows you to have a buffer behind you.

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Re:Forget self-driving car anxiety: In the early days human ... by lucaspiller on Monday November 07, 2016 @01:23AM (#12889260)
You just need to get used to it. I live in Rome, Italy and everytime the light goes green there are usually a few bikes around you that will rush off, so you know to properly check around you before you move. Here even cars split lanes, and its mostly not a problem.
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