Topic: Allstate Insurance Co. and Lane Splitting. WTH?

[Steve F]

Reference the current installment of the Allstate Car Insurance commercials featuring famous actor Dennis Haysbert soberly lecturing us about our driving habits.
Scene two of this commercial shows stock footage of a busy freeway. And then guess what!!....a guy on a two wheeler just blitzing through the gridlocked cages riding the white lane divider. Wahoo! Did I just see what I thought I saw?

Yeah, I saw the same thing, and wasn't really thinking about Allstate condoning such a practice, but why would something like that be in one of their commercials?  Dumb.  Do their commercials also recommend walking around in the middle of the street or freeway, filming a commercial while cars go whizzing by (in super slow-motion) all while he's snatching the Chinese take-out from one guy as he drives by?  He also (in another commercial) walks between two cars just before one rear-ends another.  Hey Allstate, is it OK to walk around in the middle of the freeway like the dude in your commercials?? 

[techy5025]

Funny about the shoulder thing.  I was stopped in traffic just yesterday when two guys on sport bikes decided to do the shoulder thing. They should have looked back first. The stoppage was due to long announced construction and the cops were there to make sure all rules were followed. Sure 'nuff...two cops on their Harleys pulled them both over. I don't know any place that driving on the shoulder is legal.

I have not seen any deliberate lane splitting in Orlando except for a few brain disabled riders going 30-40 faster than the traffic and they were more weaving than lane splitting.

It's so rare here that I can imagine a few drivers "accidentally" opening their doors in stopped traffic. If it were widespread and legal, it would probably be safe...or safer.

Jim