If Motorcycle Lane Filtering Bothers You, Watch This

TL;DW: Car drivers are salty about lane splitting motorcycles (and also bicycles, scooters, pedestrians, birds, small dogs, etc.) because of the Crab In A Bucket mentality. They think because their life sucks and they're suffering in traffic everyone else needs to suffer just as much, therefore splitting is "cutting in line" or "cheating" as if there is some virtue in your transit time being comparable to someone else's.

(But I did watch it anyway, because F9.)

Anyway, I read someplace several years ago and now conveniently can't find the source, if 40 or 50% or so of current urban commuters switched to motorcycles from cars, volume based rush hour congestion would be solved in most (possibly all) currently car-centric Western cities.

So go buy a motorcycle.

I'm probably preaching to the choir in this specific community, though.

Motorcyclist here, you can't pay me to split.
Cagers are oblivious - I'm not risking my neck to split.
- Ryan F9 isn't splitting, tho. He's filtering: slowly riding through slow moving or stopped traffic. There's a big difference.
- I wouldn't do it unless the traffic was backed up and still like in the video. Tho it is also illegal in my state :(
I both split and filter regularly, and feel perfectly safe doing so. Now, I'm not splitting at high speed, only up to about 35mph, and I live in CA where it is legal and common. Commuter traffic here in the Bay Area is very accustomed and polite to us.
As a car driver and recreational motorcycle driver; I'll drive in my car, it's dangerous to drive a bike in heavy traffic? Also, I'll give bikers all the space, they're very vulnurarble.
- Its dangerous to ride. Period. So you might as well get to your destination faster.

My country certainly won't let us filter despite the video claiming the contrary :(

Loved the destination explainer though XD

Yeah, well these F9 videos are popular but incredibly full of misinformation. Like his video telling us not to wear padding in gear.

The video is misleading regarding legality. It shows a map and claims, that filtering is legal in all of the green area, which is definitely not the case.

Yikes, maybe sorting algorithm bro should stick to his own lane