Originally Posted by Helmet Head
DLP is standard vehicular behavior - for drivers of slow vehicles. From farmers who temporarily pull partially in the shoulder to allow faster traffic to pass (and then move back to the left when they pass), to the bull dozer drivers who (technically illegally) temporarily merge right into the bike lane to allow "platoons" of cars to pass sometimes during my commute (yes, I merge out of the bike lane to pass the bulldozer on the left too, then watch him move left back into the travel lane after we all pass).
That's the opposite of POWERWEAVE, though, and is required by law. In POWERWEAVE, the slow-moving cyclist intentionally pulls
in front of faster vehicles before returning to its own lane.
Heck, Bek likes to tease me about pointing this out, but when driving on 2 lane rural roads I have temporarily pulled into the shoulder to allow motorcycles to pass me on the left when the oncoming lane is unavailable for safe passing.
The reason DLP (a.k.a "POWERWEAVE" by those with an anti-HH vendetta)
Come on, you know it's catchy....
does not seem vehicular is because it's easy confuse "vehicular" with "normal speed" vehicular driver behavior. But "vehicular" encompasses the whole range of vehicle driver behavior, including the behavior of drivers of slower vehicles, which, of course, is more comparable to bicyclists much of the time.
Make sense?
Well, as a slower vehicle with its own lane, it makes no sense, in that slower vehicle context, for the slower vehicle to deliberately pull out in front of approaching faster vehicles.