According to Wikipedia, Lane Splitting is described as this: A two-wheeled vehicle moving between lanes of vehicles that are proceeding in the same direction. More narrowly, it refers to passing stopped or slower moving traffic between lanes at a speed greater than surrounding traffic. It is also sometimes called lane sharing, whitelining, filtering, or stripe-riding. Alternatively, lane splitting has been used to describe moving through traffic that is in motion while filtering is used to describe moving through traffic that is stopped.

Lane splitting by motorcycles is generally legal in Europe, and in Japan and several other countries, and is illegal in many U.S. states, but is legal in California.

So, will it ever come to Florida? I mean, doesn't everyone complain about the I-4 parking lot, and wouldn't it be nice to breeze by all those fume-exhaling cars and trucks to get to your favorite Starbucks? Actually, if all of the two-wheeled vehicles were moving themselves out of the way, traffic would logically move a bit faster.

The obvious reason it's not legal in all of the United States except California is because it's dangerous if done wrong. I say "done wrong" because the law states basically in order to pass slow or stopped traffic on a two-wheeled vehicle you must use extreme caution and move slowly past the other vehicles. Also, there are those car drivers that don't realize it's legal (in California) and heroically swing their door open to stop the villainous biker in his tracks. (This is reported to be a very rare form of road rage in California)

There is no real data to prove its any safer to legalize lane-splitting, nor is there any real data to prove it is improving traffic. Yet. The two-wheeled vehicle population would have to be significant to really make a difference.

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