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Originally Posted by trixter
There are two types of statutes generally speaking. Restrictive and affirmative statutes. In general everything is legal unless there is a restrictive law against it. Affirmative laws generally are the exceptions to restrictive laws, for example killing someone is illegal - unless it is in self defense.
California has no law regulating lane splitting, since it is not banned it is legal.
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Originally Posted by trixter
Yeah that is the Black Devil R1 ride.
The reason CHP doesnt care is because it is legal in California although as cited above only 53% of drivers know this. This is Motorcycle safety awareness month or something (heard it on the radio when that study came out a couple weeks ago). However there is not much awareness going on that study got 1 day of news and that was it.
http://www.chp.ca.gov/html/answers.html
http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/hdbk/shr_slow_veh.htm |
Is what's stated in the handbook not considered law?
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Motorcycles may travel faster than traffic during congested road conditions and can legally travel in the unused space between two lines of moving or stationary vehicles; this is commonly called "lane splitting."
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