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Done properly, lane splitting is safer than staying in your lane. My rule of thumb was to have less than a 15mph differential between my speed and the speed of traffic (usually 0-5). In stop and go accordion traffic, rear end collisions between cars are fairly common. If you're on a bike, you don't want to be the meat in their sandwich...if you're lane splitting that doesn't happen. But you have to contend with inattentive drivers drifting (or doing it on purpose because they think you're "cheating"), tossing stuff out the window, or other festive behavior.
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