Abbreviated Question Time: Lane-splitting Motorcyles and Tocqueville on Ambition

Including plans for a Zoom discussion of Tocqueville

Jay See asked a couple of questions for which I had no answer: So how is it that the following 2 things are still true:

1. French bread (the long kind) and the like at grocery stores are left in bags that are open on one end, leaving the bread exposed to the horrors of non-safetyism

2. In the most safetyismest state of all - California - it is actually STILL LEGAL for motorcycles to drive between 2 lanes of cars (e.g. on a 4-lane highway, they can drive between 2 of the lanes going the same direction)

I’ll leave the French bread to others, but the motorcycle question led me to do some research. It turns out that not only is “lane splitting” still legal in California, it was explicitly legalized in 2017, making California the only state in which it is protected by law. A majority of states outlaw it, although many others leave its status ambiguous.