Originally Posted by
genec
By your logic, a slow moving vehicle is then also "not traffic." Does 21656 also create two separate classes of vehicles?
Yes, ones operating at "normal speed" and ones operating at slower speeds. The only property that distinguishes the two classes is speed. That is obvious.
In the bicycle law, the law talks about bicycles.
Turning Out of Slow-Moving Vehicles
21656. On a two-lane highway where passing is unsafe because of traffic in the opposite direction or other conditions, a slow-moving vehicle, including a passenger vehicle, behind which five or more vehicles are formed in line, shall turn off the roadway at the nearest place designated as a turnout by signs erected by the authority having jurisdiction over the highway, or wherever sufficient area for a safe turnout exists, in order to permit the vehicles following it to proceed. As used in this section a slow-moving vehicle is one which is proceeding at a rate of speed less than the normal flow of traffic at the particular time and place.
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Originally Posted by
genec
But by definition in CA law a bicycle is not a vehicle, hence the need for the 21202 law. Bicycles are defined as human powered devices.
But bicycles have to be operated like vehicles. Traffic laws applying to vehicles also applies to bicycles (being operated).
21200. (a) Every person riding a bicycle upon a highway has all the rights and is subject to all the provisions applicable to the driver of a vehicle by this division, including
This indicates that laws talking about the operation of vehicles applies to bicyclists (operators of bicycles). (Unless an exception is made for bicycles/bicyclists.)