Originally Posted by
spare_wheel
I think a common theme here is that those who are splitting do so when there is a line of motionless vehicles thus making risk of sideway movement irrelevant.
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And big trucks can't easily change lanes in slow moving gridlock either. If there is enough room for a truck to move into the next lane "through" me, then there should enough room for me to move over too.
The added danger of course are the big exposed wheels on trucks. It is almost impossible for a cyclist to get actually run over from the side by a passenger car drifting over the line but highly likely an unaware cyclist could end up under the wheels of a big truck very quickly from the side. I am presuming this is the fear (justified) for lane splitting past a moving truck.