Originally Posted by
CB HI
Debatable. As I understand it, CA as most or all states does not have any law making lane splitting legal. Since one is suppose to maintain ones travel within a lane until one signals and safely/legally makes a lane change. Because of the large number of motorcyclists in CA during hot climate days requiring air flow to keep their engines from overheating; in traffic jams CHP simply ignored the lane splitting by motorcyclists.
Your understanding would be incorrect though.
http://www.chp.ca.gov/programs/lanesplitguide.html
It's not that they turn a blind eye in the slightest bit, it's just that it really isn't illegal here.. though you did get one part correct there's no laws for it technically, but it's not a look the other way thing as you can see by the fact the chp have a guide on doing it.