Motorcycle lane splitting

[Great-Kazoo]

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.



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.

The red highlighted words are what it comes down to anymore.


As for the other highlighted areas


Not sure where you think this is happening in todays driving reality. The "truth" is unless one is an old school driver who actually follows the guidelines taught in a drivers ed class. Is a MC rider or knows lots of scooter riders, the "average" vehicle operator is too engrossed in their electronic bubble to pay attention, let alone care about anyone else on the road but them self.

One can see it after honking their horn at driver A, who's braking on the road when there's no one in front of them, blows thru the red light or stop sign, then flips you off after their fuck up.

Turning left in front of a mc, has the driver saying "I never or didn't see the motorcycle". When the majority of the time it's they who failed to look before executing a turn, in to oncoming traffic.

Which then goes one step further of being reported after the fact. The motorcyclist wasn't wearing a helmet. Implying that was the cause of death, when it was a 2T vehicle impacting the mc at 20-60+ mph. Always deflecting to some fault other than it being the vehicle operators.
While not wearing protective gear (Riders choice) can factor in to more serious injury, there's some times getting center punched by a 1/2T or even mini van @ 40 mph can punch your ticket. No matter how much gear one wears.

As for the term cager it was coined back when those of us riding mc's were the minority and labelled lots of things, other than another person out enjoying a nice ride

Loose translation
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cager