Motorcycle lane splitting

[DenverGP]

This being said, I continue to live by the idea that the safest way to ride a motorcycle is to behave like a car. Don’t accelerate quickly. Don’t change lanes quickly. Don’t take turns at twice the speed of the cagers. Deviating from what 99% of the other vehicles on the road are doing adds significant risk of an accident.

I see that as a solution to many car vs motorcycle accidents. Drivers (wtf is with the "cager" term?) are familiar with how long a car takes to accelerate, to cover a certain distance, to change lanes, etc. Drivers look back, check the lane, then possibly check ahead of them again, then start moving over. A rapidly manuvering motorcycle will suddenly be in that previously clear spot to change lanes into. I've seen several bad accidents where a car turned left in front of a motorcycle coming the other way. It may have been because the driver didn't see the motorcycle (being smaller and all), or possibly the driver saw it, but assumed it was going the speed limit and that they had time. Or simply the motorcycle being smaller made the driver fail in their estimation of the distance/time they had to complete the turn.

Lane splitting should be legal so long as the motorcyclist accepts all risk associated with the practice. The only way a car driver should be held responsible for a lane splitting accident is if the car driver intentionally caused the accident.

Except that in the real world, it's always one person's word against another, and regardless of who's right/wrong, lawyers can make it everyones problem.