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Lane splitting can be relatively safe, or it can be horrifically danerous. If you let traffic settle down a bit before splitting, keep the speeds manageable (CHP recommends10-15 mph over traffic speeds, which seems reasonable), and keep your eyes open, it's not too bad. By the time traffic gets down to about 30 mph, the lanes are all full and very few people are changing lanes. I'd read an article that found splitting in stop-and-crawl was actually safer than being in the lanes, where you're likely to get squished by a driver not paying attention.
It's that thing where they're looking at their phone or the radio or whatever, and the look forward to see if there's a car there, and a bike doesn't register as something for which they need to stop. By splitting, I'm gone.
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