Sensors outside the jacket detect impacts and expand the airbag in milliseconds (Miles 1). By requiring riders to have this type of technology, it would not only spurr business innovation, but still keep the price of buying a bike less than buying a car, and insurance prices could go down (less fatalities, less cost). The pants a biker wears has similar protection to the jacket, offering slide and low speed impact protection, this holds true for the boots and gloves as well (New Study Dissects Moto 1-3). .
Lane splitting, also called filtering, refers to the action of moving in between the lanes to the left and right of the biker. The reason filtering is so important to bikers is not the fact that they get to be first off the line when the light turns green, it is because they can not see behind them for vehicles, which may or may not stop, and they are also taking themselves out of the danger zone of traffic- if a rider is in front of the traffic, nobody will cut them off, or move into their lane unexpectedly. Like-wise, the rider also removes themselves from "congested traffic, where stop-and-go vehicles, distracted and inattentive vehicle operators, and environmental conditions pose an increased risk of physical contact with another vehicle or hazard," (Lane Splitting 1). Furthermore, in many countries (besides the US) lane splitting is normal, and "motorcycle and scooter operators are expected to pass between conventional vehicles and filter (advance) to the front of the group," (Lane Splitting 1) Not surprisingly, "62 percent of motorcyclists say they lane-split on both freeways and other roads," (Bizjak para. 4) in California. Furthermore, those lane splitting received less injuries overall, "and 55 percent fewer fatalities," (Blain para. 6). All the evidence points towards lane splitting being safer than sitting in traffic, and motorcycle associations like the Motorcycle Industry Council now support "state laws that allow lane splitting under reasonable restrictions," (Lane Splitting 1).