When I lived in MA, you really couldn’t get by with driving in the fast lane if you were blocking traffic. Out here in CA, everyone thinks he has a “right” to be in whatever lane he wants and drive whatever speed he wants. Some will actually get annoyed if you suggest they move over when they are going under the speed limit in the left lane on a 3-lane freeway. I still can’t get used to that after living our here for > 25 years.
Only if driver’s know the law (I often think state of IL should put up billboard signs to remain drivers (right… :rolleyes: ). I know it won’t help; it’s the attitude. I’ve never seen or heard of this law ever being enforced.
I don’t know… anywhere from O’Hare area towards downtown on either Kennedy or Ike, I almost never see any driver moving over to let faster traffics go by.
Drivers on 294 north of O’Hare all the way to Wisconsin boarder are pretty bad in my observation… they will intentionally speed up like some maniac to block you out only to slow down again, like saying, “How dare you”. 90 west of O’Hare is another one that many drivers protect their position as if it’s their god given right to not lose their spot.
Colorado has signs. Dumbasses still can’t get the fuck over. I almost miss those FIP’s :D. At least they know (for the most part) how to drive in snow.
I’m the best driver in the whole wide world.
So that makes me number two :mad:
You drive like #2?
I have been told that, yes.
Ouch.
One of the issues I have seen debated on nearly every message board I have ever read…
My take is that on city streets, there is no “passing lane” or “slow lane” on multi-lane roads, every lane is equal, you are supposed to drive as fast as is practical without exceeding the speed limit.
On “urban highways”, it is typically the same deal. I’m not talking interstate or limited-access highways, but highways that run through the city. They are the same as any other city street, with stop lights, driveways, and pedestrian crossings, so a “passing lane” doesn’t make sense, they are just multiple lanes of traffic.
On “urban interstate highways”, it is a bit different. However, if traffic is so heavy so you can’t practically obey the “2-second rule” (allow at least two seconds between you and the car in front of you), then they behave more like city streets in that there is no “passing lane”. By definition, the traffic is so heavy that you can’t really pass and the most likely reason people are going slow is not because they don’t want to go faster, but that they can’t because of the traffic. Remember, also, on “urban interstate highways” you are more likely to run across people who don’t know which exit they want, or have to deal with exits on the left. Regardless, if you’re not going more than 10-15 miles, it really doesn’t make much difference if you are going 50 or 70, particularly if there is traffic, so, why not just relax and get there when you get there.
Now, yes, it is annoying when someone is in the leftmost lane and going less than the posted speed limit. But, it doesn’t take more than a mile or so until they either move over or you can get around them, so it really doesn’t make a lot of difference. Frankly, I find it much more annoying to have someone ride your tail because they want to go 3 mph faster than you are going. It isn’t NASCAR, the guy in front doesn’t win.
OK, I feel better…
excavating (for a mind)
This is what some slow drivers mumble to themselves in an attempt legitimize themselves slowing the world down refusing to move out of the way.
Whether it is 1 MPH or 10 MPH, getting impeded by some self appointed slow poke preacher staying in a passing/fast lane impeding someone, eg, from getting to his or hers dying mother on death bed, is asinine and pathetic to say the least. Get off the hot pan if you can’t handle the heat. Do the world a favor and get in the appropriate lane and drive at your own comfortable pace in peace. Why so much extra curricular mind fucking when everyone is trying to get from point A to point B?? If you don’t want to drive fast, get off the fast lane!! What’s so humiliating and upsetting about that? Miles of open road in front of you and you enjoy frustrating the hell out of people trying to get by you… arggg… Let the world go; it is okay.
I live here in the northwoods of the U.P., and it happens ALL THE TIME! While we don’t have a huge traffic problem by any means, it is soooo irritating! Actually, my husband got pulled over for it a few weeks ago (just a warning), but I was glad! When you have someone on your ass in the left lane, that is a HUGE hint to move the hell over! Why do some people NOT understand this simple concept???
I mean, as much as I pass slow drivers, I move out of the way if there’s someone behind me traveling faster than I am. It’s not about comparing size of sex organs. It is just a civil thing to do. Go to a seminary school if you want to preach instead of insisting on doing that in the middle of freeway.
Amen, brother!
Some months ago I was watching a TV reporter interview a State Trooper and this subject came up. The trooper stated that in 2009, the last year for which he had the stats, there were almost 10,000 tickets written for left lane camping. Said that the State Patrol most emphatically did not want the general public taking it upon themselves to enforce the speed laws.
This was, BTW, in Washington State.
I see IL State Troopers themselves get stuck behind this people (the oblivious kind) having to pass them on the right all the time… but never saw them pull any over.
It’s not that the folks in the DC area are rude, it’s just that they are in the middle of an important conference call and didn’t notice that they were in the left lane. They are driving slowly for safety. Everybody knows you should drive slowly when you talk on the phone so you don’t have to worry about running into anything. 50 MPH in the left lane of the beltway means you rarely have to worry about overtaking anyone. Cruise control set to 50, laptop open on the passenger seat, Blackberry in hand = ready for that all important call about where to eat lunch today.
Alternate poll on tendency of speeding drivers (i.e. going 80 mph or better on interstates) to swoop down on anyone slower than them who’s using the passing lane to pass other drivers and who does not immediately get out of their way regardless of whether there’s space on the right to do so - tailgating, flashing lights and otherwise being a nuisance and road hazard, by city/state:
Pretty much all of them.
Where do you get the idea that any thought at all goes into it? Why can’t they be like most drivers, and just think they are driving at a reasonable speed in the lane they are in, and the idea of anyone else’s goals doesn’t even enter their thoughts? I can’t imagine most people think of being able to drive in the fast lane as something special–they just feel the slow lane is too slow.
I would like to think one is driving a heavy large metal box at high rates of speed along other ginormous heavy metal boxes, at least some thought went into having the presence of mind as to where and how they are driving… as well as awareness of their surroundings… but then there are a pull spectrum of varieties like all things, I’d assume. You know from the tone of my post and how far down from my OP and number of my replies, I was venting, no? Of course I don’t know what, if anything at all, goes through their head.
Some stays camped in the fast lane even when a State Trooper is inches away from their bumper totally oblivious. I don’t think that’s an excuse, do you?
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I see IL State Troopers themselves get stuck behind this people (the oblivious kind) having to pass them on the right all the time… but never saw them pull any over.
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You haven’t seen my awesome driving then.