It’s a picture of a sign that says “Delay of 5 Vehicles Illegal Must Use Turnouts.” Anybody got a picture of the “turnouts” the sign is refering to? I’m unfamiliar with the concept.
It’s a wide, safe spot to the right where you can get over and let someone pass, sometimes even moving along at some speed, but usually slowing way down.
https://www.google.com/search?q=turnouts&es_sm=91&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=9CLyVN3bMM6zogTqh4B4&ved=0CDgQ7Ak&biw=1551&bih=869#tbm=isch&q=turnouts+highway
It’s just a short section of road on the right side (for U.S. drivers) with enough room for a car to pull over to let another pass.
And if they don’t…do you crawl up within three car lengths?
This discussion is about tailgaters, not slow people in the fast lanes.
If you don’t tailgate, then there isn’t anything in this thread for you. If you do, then some of us don’t like that, and we don’t like it a lot.
No, there’s quite a bit of room for safe and sane ways to deal with tailgaters.
The final stretch into work is a three mile, narrow two lane road. There’s no way to pass (legally).
The speed limit is 40 but every now and then I’ll be behind some granny going 30. Yea, sometimes I get a little close, but there’ll be an entire line of cars bunched up…all because of one
pokey-ass idiot.
there are 3 kinds of drivers on the road around me. Those going my speed. Those going faster. Those going slower. I try to accommodate them all.
Remember what George said. Those going faster than you are maniacs, and those going slower than you are idiots.
Relax.
That is not defensive driving, that’s aggressive driving. You’re slowing down, in a deliberate attempt to aggravate an already aggravating situation. You’re deliberately provoking someone who may have anger issues. Would you do this if you knew he had a gun? A car can be as deadly as a gun.
The only sane way to deal with him is to get out of his way; to get as much distance between you as possible. It’s not your job to police other drivers by deliberately provoking them.
This.
Lets also not forget that it is almost Springtime and carloads of “Swoop and Squat” teams are already out & working the roads. Road rage nothing, they use their cars like guns to rob you and your insurance company to earn a living.
from the article:
Okay, but if I’m already going 20-25 mph over the limit in the left lane of a two-lane road, and everyone in the right lane is much slower than I am, then why should I get stuck behind them because you want to go 100? It doesn’t hurt you either to use the right lane, if doing 100 is so important to you.
??? Nobody suggested you stay in the right lane. And why would someone faster than you switch to the right hand lane if it’s the slower lane?
what you’re suggesting is passive aggressive behavior.
There’s already (at least in some states) a legal requirement for a slower driver to pull over to let cars go by, if there are a certain number of them. (I believe in California it’s five cars.)
Same with tailgating within a certain close distance.
Both of these actions are illegal (or ticketable.)
No. Not to stay there. I’m saying that if you want to go 100 mph don’t expect people going 95 to immediately put on their brakes, slow down and move over temporarily into slow traffic just to let you by.
If they’re going 95 or 100, I’m pulling all the way off to the shoulder to dial 911.
At Last! See? A responsible driver pulls off the road to make a phone call. 
I think in Canada that’s still a ticket.
Why would they ticket someone for making an emergency call?
He’s suggesting situations like what I described above–a very, very busy two-lane highway, where there is a constant stream of cars 3-4 car lengths apart in the right hand lane. If the right hand lane is traveling at the speed limit or slightly above it (common) and you want to go faster (also common) you have to get over in the left hand lane for long stretches of time, because you have to pass long strings of cars. So you are in the left hand lane going 20 mph faster than the right hand lane. You’ve got 10 cars to pass. Someone comes right up your ass. You can’t really merge right, because those cars are bunched up, and you’d have to slow down to the speed limit to do so–which you can’t do with someone on your bumper. You don’t feel safe going any faster, because if you did, you’d have been doing that already. All you can do is sweat and swear and wait until you get an opportunity to merge right safely, and it can be a long, nerve-wracking time.