Weekend News Round-up: 2016 Mazda MX-5 Reviews, Lane-Splitting is Safer and Aston Martin Going Electric
Surprise! TTAC didn’t have a single writer at the Mazda MX-5 media preview. Instead, here’s a few different reviews of Japan’s favorite roadster from other outlets and a run-down of what you may have missed over the weekend.
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2016 Mazda MX-5 Review (AutoGuide)
2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata 2.0L First Drive (AutoBlog)
First Drive: 2016 Mazda Miata (The Detroit Bureau)
The 2016 Mazda Miata Is Undeniably Fantastic (Jalopnik)
Lane-splitting for motorcycles is safe, says landmark Berkeley study (LA Times)
Revisiting The Cars Of May (Speedhunters)
Aston Martin plots future hybrid models (Autocar)
Nissan rules out Navara-based SUV… for now (GoAuto.com.au)
Challenge Won: We Do 11 Seconds in the Dodge Charger Hellcat (Cars.com)
FIA looking for a new F1 team (AutoBlog)
Tesla loses fight with dealers to sell its cars in Texas (The Verge)
Sprint Cup competitors form Driver Council (Motorsport.com)
Goodwood festival adds drifting category (AutoBlog)
Mad Max before and after shots show what’s real and what’s fake (The Verge)
More as the day goes on…
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The logic of the lane splitting report fails to make sense to me. 6000 reported accidents. 1000 of which involved lane splitting. Seeing as lane splitters spend the vast majority of their time on the road not actively splitting lanes, this says to me that there were 5000 accidents, and then an additional 1000 accidents caused by a practice which actually takes up a small fraction of a rider's road-time/miles. Am I missing something there?
It's easy enough to overlook motorcyclists as it is... permitting lane-splitting is not going to help. I've usually got my left side mirror adjusted further left to help control my blind spot but it leaves a hole in my view into which a motorcyclist on the line could fit. Managing congestion by permitting lane splitting does not seem like sane practice. This seems like a bad idea, unless the real intent is to increase the available donor organ pool.