This is half-true. Getting run over by a car after going down is a bad day. The real technique, in my opinion (I have been down a few times), is to use the br

This is half-true. Getting run over by a car after going down is a bad day. The real technique, in my opinion (I have been down a few times), is to use the brakes to take off as much speed as possible while, if you can, bringing both the bike and yourself off the roadway and onto a shoulder or median. And always: legal or not, lane split into stopped traffic so that it's an instinct. More than once the car in front of me has slammed his brakes on and I've split in next to him, only for him to be rear-ended by the car which was behind me. Much better to be next to a car that is rear-ended than to be behind one.