Self-Driving Cars Struggle To Cope With Lane Splitting Tactics Of Motorcycles

Dr. Lance Eliot, AI Insider

(Ed. Note: For reader’s interested in Dr. Eliot’s ongoing business analyses about the advent of self-driving cars, see his online Forbes column: https://forbes.com/sites/lanceeliot/)

I recently posted a column about the latest aspects of motorcycles and how AI is making them semi-autonomous and fully autonomous, see: https://www.aitrends.com/features/motorcycles-are-on-the-road-to-becoming-semi-autonomous-and-fully-autonomous/

I thought it might be handy to consider another aspect about motorcycles, namely the somewhat controversial practice of motorcyclists that practice doing lane splitting.

Have you ever heard of lane splitting?

How about lane sharing, or lane white-lining, or even sometimes referred to as strip-riding?

Here in California we are quite familiar with this terminology since it refers to something we see every day, namely, motorcyclists that go between the lanes on our highways, freeways, and byways.

This is one of those aspects about California that one might be conflicted about.

We are the only state that specifically has made it a legal practice to do lane splitting.