Ok- WTF Cali people??

[Alex]

It was a bit of a freak out for me the first time I experienced lane splitter in traffic on the Bay Bridge after moving here. Then it was followed by annoyance at how rude and aggressive California drivers are.

Then I found out it is legal here.

I wonder how much of the California reputation for aggressive driving (and really, I don't find it any worse here than in other places I've lived) comes from motorcycle lane splitting being illegal in a lot of other places.

Similarly, I used to have a coworker who said she was terrified of driving in Oregon because of the triple trailer trucks. She'd never shared the road with them so on her one trip up there all she remembered was them all convoyed up.