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Sure you can:

Let's assume you're in the middle lane of a 3-lane freeway. The lanes are 9' wide and your car is 16' long or so. You initiate a spin causing the vehicle to rotate about its center of mass which for sake of argument we'll say is the exact center of the vehicle and coincidentally the center of the lane. As the vehicle rotates, the front and back corners cross the dotted lines at precisely the same instant before the vehicle gets totally perpendicular to its direction of travel. Voila! You've now changed two lanes at a time (and are actually occupying three lanes at the same time for as long as you keep the sideways slide going).

OK, ridiculous? Sure. But not impossible.

It's Friday and I've got a wicked caffeine high going, so excuse my lunacy for now.
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