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Originally Posted by Mohawk
IIRC California made filtering legal not very long ago, thus many drivers would not have been informed that this is happens. It’s been legal all my life in the UK & even today when following another bike by 100-200yds, drivers still manage to close the gap between lanes or drift to the white lines, slowing your progress.
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There have been no legal changes to California filtering in decades. It's just never been explicitly illegal. The California Highway Patrol (state police) posted guidelines for filtering a few years ago, and it caused a stink because someone protested that they were implicitly making new laws by laying out the guidelines (for relative speed, etc.). CHP had to remove the guidelines.
There have been attempts to get the laws actually changed to make it clear what is acceptable and what isn't, but nothing has been passed. But more to the point, there's been no difference in behavior in filtering in the 20+ years I've been here. Cars still generally have no idea that it's "OK", and it's not a rare occurrence to see a motorcycle filtering in dangerous and questionable ways (even if most m/c commuters are prudent and attentive).