“Failure to yield” is a law in some places. You don’t get to lane camp.
Also, most states have “Keep right except to pass” laws. So if you’re not actively passing, you need to move over.
So yeah, they are breaking laws.
I have met some people online that are very allergic to the idea of breaking the law. Which is kinda exotic for me because where I live (middle-Eastern Europe) the uncommon is for someone to actually stick to the law lol. It’s very interesting that we are so different in this.
For us when there was communism here, everyone had to break the laws to get by and so we are probably used to it even when most of the laws actually make sense nowadays.
Oh you mean like Slovakia, not like Lebanese-Spain
This works the other way too, though. If they are passing slower traffic, it doesn’t matter if you want to pass even faster, you gotta be patient and wait until they are no longer passing and pull back into the outside lane before you pass.
pull back into the outside lane
Not sure if you mistyped, but if you’re in the left most lane and the person in front is passing someone, then you stay in the lane until they move over.
I live in Australia. The right lane is the overtaking lane and the left lane is for normal travel.
But to adapt it to use language which is region-neutral, I used “outside lane” to refer to what would be my left lane. Because it sits on the outside of the road corridor. No mistyping.
Honestly, the term “inside” and “outside” don’t really help. On a two-way road, the “inside” would probably be the one closest to the divider, whereas on a separated highway, I’d probably consider it the closest to the exits (the opposite). That’s inconsistent at best.
It’s honestly just easier to say, “I drive on the left/right” and then use left/right like you normally would.
Regardless, my point is that if you’re behind someone who is in the rightmost lane, you have to just wait until they’ve finished passing before you can pass them. If there’s a lane to their right, you don’t need to wait, just overtake in the available lane, even if they’re passing someone else. I’ve actually done that on highways with two lanes going each way, where the pass in the “normal” passing lane, and I pass in the oncoming traffic lane when clear.
Maybe we’re saying the same thing, but it sounded like you’d wait behind them even if there’s another passing lane available, which seems silly.
if you’re behind someone who is in the rightmost lane, you have to just wait until they’ve finished passing before you can pass them
Yes, that’s exactly what I said (assuming we’re talking about in an Aus/UK scenario). To repeat myself, but with the left/right/inside/outside thing fixed
If they are passing slower traffic…you gotta be patient and wait until they are no longer passing and pull back into the [left] lane
What you’re saying is logical but is the opposite way to how it actually works, at least in the UK but I believe elsewhere as well
In Australia and the UK you drive on the left normally (the outside lane), and overtake on the right (the inside lane). In America that would be drive on the right (outside lane) and overtake on the left (inside lane).
I live in the UK and can tell you conclusively that is not correct.
I agree that’s how it should work, but that isn’t how it works, at least in this country.
I’m talking specifically about your use of inside vs outside lane
Oh I see. So you would say the inside lane is the one furthest from the centre of the road?
I’ve seen so many wrecks because of assholes trying to go 85-150 MPH on a god damn road. The comments here enforce the idea that people are just selfish, self centered motherfuckers when it comes to driving on the highway. There is a posted fucking speed LIMIT for a god damn reason. Leave earlier if you want to get to your fucking destination on time.
Is your point the speed limit signs should be followed, but the “keep right except to pass” signs are ok to ignore?
I’ve never seen one of those in my state. I DO see plenty of SPEED LIMIT 70 MPH signs though. I think the keep right is fucking stupid, because it just causes drivers to swerve in and out of traffic, which is dangerous for multiple reasons, but will also cause congestion on the on ramps on to the interstate itself. It just goes to show you how each state having it’s own laws for driving is fucking stupid also.
It is the law in all 50 states for slower traffic to keep to the right when driving on the highway, regardless of the speed limit. So you just clearly don’t know how to drive, and have never bothered to learn, or even educate yourself in your own states driving laws. Keeping right also isn’t stupid at all. A lot of people, much smarter and experienced than yourself, armed with decades of data have decided that keeping right is the safest course of action. Obstructing the flow of traffic by driving slowly in the left lane continues to be far more dangerous than speeding ever could be.
After many years in EMS I’ve seen the disastrous results of self righteous speed keepers and unpredictable drivers like yourself first hand and I really have less than zero sympathy. Stop worrying about the speed of other vehicles on the road and start worrying about your ability to drive predictably, in a way that keeps you inside the flow of traffic, in the spot you’re supposed to be.
https://www.mwl-law.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/SLOWER-TRAFFIC-KEEP-RIGHT.pdf
EDIT: And for someone who was supposedly in EMS, that means you would have seen the direct consequences of what going TOO fast can do to the human bodies, and their vehicles involved. So, therefore if you were a sane individual, you would encourage people to follow the posted SPEED LIMIT. Also, I’m worried about what other drivers are fucking doing dangerously, BECAUSE I HAVE TO SHARE THE SAME FUCKING ROAD WITH THEM, YOU IDIOT.
Oh, no. you hurt my feelings by saying shit you know nothing about! I might just cry. :(
No, I learned what NOT to do from idiots who think they can safely drive over 90-100 MPH. Get the fuck over yourself, and just realize that going faster than 90 MPH DRASTICALLY increases your chances of colliding with something, someone, or LOSING CONTROL OF YOUR FUCKING VEHICLE.
seen the direct consequences of what going TOO fast can do to the human bodies, and their vehicles involved.
At highway speeds, whether you’re going 55 mph or 75 mph makes little difference to your survivability. Crashing your car at highway speeds is going to hurt. The difference is somebody who’s speeding in the left lane is a lot less likely to cause an accident than somebody going too slowly in the left lane. People like you are a much larger danger to yourself and others than somebody going over the speed limit by a marginal amount, in an appropriate lane. And the fact that we have to share a road with people like you is infuriating. In my eyes you’re no better than drunk drivers. At least they were impaired when they made the poor decision to drive drunk. You make the choice to put everyone on the road at risk fully sober, because you just don’t care.
Oh, no. you hurt my feelings by saying shit you know nothing about!
Evidently I do, since I had to send you proof of your own state’s driving laws that by your own admission you were completely unaware of and also apparently don’t mind breaking. I guess it’s not about the law for you, just control over other people.
The worst thing about scumbags like you is it’s not just simple ignorance that drives your self-centered, life threatening behavior on the road. You also just refuse to learn.
Amen
You’re so fucking stupid. You know nothing about how I drive. Just because I complained about people who are obviously putting themselves, and others, at risk because they want to go above the posted speed limit. Don’t worry, asshole. The feeling is mutual. I hope you don’t drive too fast to be able to react in a timely manner the next time you are on the road. Others lives might be in danger with speed demons like yourself on the road.
I know that you hyperfixate on speed limits and yet you don’t know your own state’s driving laws. That tells me all I need to know about how you. You don’t know how to drive, you don’t care that you’re putting people’s lives as risk over your perverse power fantasy. You think you’re more important than everyone else on the road. Being confronted with your own ignorance doesn’t even move the needle towards some introspection and actually learning how to drive safely with other people on the road.
People like you are responsible for so many preventable deaths on the road and then when somebody loses their life because of the bullshit head games you want to play while in control of a 2 ton hunk of metal, you’ll cry and sputter about “how did this happen” and “I didn’t mean to”. I wouldn’t even call you stupid because it’s more likely you just don’t care, as long as your fragile ego gets what it wants then fuck everyone else, right? Disgusting.
Lmao are you okay?
55 vs 75 no difference?
speeding cause less wrecks than driving ‘slowly’ in the left lane?
yeah, you’re the scumbag speeder who refuses to learn. not someone who passes left but isn’t going fast enough for you. you’re gonna kill someone some day. psycho.
55 vs 75 no difference?
Yeah if you think a 75mph crash will kill you but you get to walk away unharmed from a 55MPH crash, I have really bad news for you.
speeding cause less wrecks than driving ‘slowly’ in the left lane?
That is correct. Speeding is involved in a minority of accidents, and is the cause of even less. Over the course of a decade, I’ve seen two fatalities due to speeding, they didn’t harm anyone but themselves in the process, and both were on residential boulevards, not the freeway. I’ve seen far more caused by erratic unpredictable driving, driving too slow for traffic, and turning into traffic.
I’m a man who’s been fortunate enough to have saved dozens of lives that were almost ended by people like you that become road hazards on purpose, and less fortunately the witness of far more innocent people losing their lives because of drivers like yourself. People like you have caused far more injury and death than any speeders could hope to. Speeders are nothing more than a convenient scapegoat. As long as they themselves are not driving erratically or switching lanes unpredictably, they’re of minuscule concern. There are countries with freeways that have speed limits more than twice the U.S. and they do just fine.
Lmaooooo fucking brainworms oofta
“Selfish, self centered motherfuckers” would also describe those in the left lane while not passing with others behind them. No numbers needed. If someone is on your tail in the left lane and the right is open, move right. Everyone is safer, even people dumb enough to go 150, when passers aren’t forced to weave between lanes.
I disagree. I think that just emboldens the fools who think they can drive over 100 MPH. If I am in the left lane, it is because I need to be in that lane. Point blank. I don’t care where you live, and what your states laws are, mine do not have those stupid ass laws.
Drunk drivers who enter the freeway going the wrong direction usually drive in what they think is the right lane, which is actually the left lane. Camping in the left lane increases your chances of a head-on collision.
So… to mitigate that, you encourage people to drive faster than they can reliably react to a situation such as this exact scenario…? Yeah, okay. Sound logic.
Wow. Get familiar with the Uber app. You shouldn’t be driving if that’s the conclusion you reach based on anything I’ve said.
Okay grandma, let’s go back into the living room and log you off of lemmy
How… how else was I supposed to take that then? Do you remember what conversation we are having here?
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Germany has proved it’s not the speed that causes the accidents it’s the excessive lane changing resulting in cutting people off.
Cell phone addiction doesn’t help either.
Look, I’m not going to budge. I do not think people need to be going over 90/100 MPH on the road, with many other people driving, with animals also in the picture. I think it’s reckless, stupid, and just not necessary in any capacity. Again, I have seen too many fools driving way too fucking fast, hurt other innocent people because of their stupidity.
Sure you can believe that as much as you want but it doesn’t change that fact that some percentage of people are still going to drive entirely too fast, not to mention the much larger number of people who will drive a little over the limit. Study after study has shown the best way to move people going different speeds is to pass in the left lane and use the other lanes to go progressively slower as you move left. If you don’t think people should speed that’s fair and I agree, but that doesn’t change the fact that people will do it anyway.
You can all move over for them if you want. When I am in a lane, it is because I need to be in that lane. I guess I can at least say I am passing people, so.
Statistically, we have more deadly accidents on sections of the Autobahn with no speed limit, so speed is a factor, even though it isn’t the only one.
But do you have more accidents in general?
That is even more surprising than me seeing the accident statistics in Europe compared to US. I must have fallen for propaganda 😓
You understand most of those accidents weren’t due to someone speeding…they were due to someone causing a dramatic change in speed.
Oh. Like the people who just ram right into people because they were too busy going too fast to be able to properly control their vehicle…? Yeah, no shit.
Most accidents I see are from dumb fucks trying to merge into a fast moving lane from a dead stop because they were tailgating the guy in front of them too much and instead of waiting til they had enough speed to match the lane they were going into they just cut them off instead.
Right. So, if you’re going a reasonable speed, say, the posted speed limit of 70, you will be able to mitigate as much carnage as possible even when that person was doing something pretty dumb, because you will be able to slow down quicker and you’ll be able to keep control of the vehicle.
Even doing the speed limit won’t save you if someone swerves into your lane from a dead stop 200 feet in front of you. By your logic everyone should be going 15mph everywhere so we don’t get hurt.
No, no.
By my logic, you should paying attention to your speed, because the speed limit is posted at 70. The benefits that come with going 70 and not 90+ are that you will be able to mitigate as much damage as possible, while on the interstate going the posted speed limit, by being able to either slow down quicker or react in a manner that allow you to prevent as much damage as possible.
Is that more clear for you?
Going 60 would mitigate even more damage, 50 even more, 40 even more, and so on until we might as well be commuting in bumper cars. Why is 70 the arbitrary line? Who are you to decide what an acceptable level of risk is for everyone else?
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I’d say from experience that that is how it works. If they weren’t driving so fast, they could reasonably react in time. Highways aren’t for playing on.
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Yes. My experience.
I’m sure you can, buddy.
Yes. It does.
A lot of misunderstanding here, as should be expected, considering the topic and the reality it relates to.
Let’s put it simply: if you’re “passing” in the left lane and there’s space between the first vehicle you’re overtaking & the next one, and those also passing behind you are going faster than you prefer/are capable of? No biggie. Just say these words along with me, ok?
Get. The fuck. Over. 🤗
You can continue your Sunday afternoon cruise after the adults have left you behind.
See those lights/blinkers in your mirrors? They’re for you and because of you. Get. The fuck. Over.
And, if you feel the urge to whine about it, that’s fine too. Out of the passing lane. 🤷🏼♂️
It’s pretty simple: not the fastest vehicle in the passing lane? GTFO. You can harumph to yourself about life not being fair once you’re no longer CAUSING FUCKING TRAFFIC, chucklehead. 🤣🖕🏽
Wrong reality. It’s for passing not speeding down the freeway
Ah, children. So darling.
Let me guess…your car is a BMW, right ? You got to be the moron in a BMW ?
There was a way you could have said that without being a smug dick about it. You have however perfectly illustrated exactly which type of person camps in the passing lane going 30 over the speed limit all day…
Well done 👏👏👏
It doesn’t matter who’s faster, what matters is if the car in front is actively passing. If there’s a big enough gap that the car in front can merge over without having to slam on their brakes to match the slower flow, then yes, they should move over. But if there isn’t, then I guess you need to wait until there is.
The rule should be codified and enforced as something like: stay right except to pass, and passing on the right is illegal. That’s simple. If there’s room to your right, regardless of traffic behind you, you should move right. It doesn’t matter what speed you’re going, if there’s room, move right. The only exception here is on highways with more than two lanes, in which case it’s totally fine to leave the right lane open for people exiting and entering the highway. Other than that, stay right. And if someone else isn’t following that law, call traffic enforcement and don’t pass on the right.
In another way of speaking, yes. And, it is the law in most places that at least the chicken heads in this thread don’t want to recognize. Further proof that drivers licensing should be farrrr more stringent and difficult to obtain. 🤦🏼♂️
Licensing is rarely the issue, it’s that people develop bad habits. I’m in favor of relicensing every 10 years or so. Not an open book written test, but an actual driving test. That should also help catch the elderly who really shouldn’t be driving.
But the real solution is to build out mass transit and enforce the laws we have. A combination of fewer drivers and correcting dangerous driving behaviors should improve traffic and safety.
I don’t entirely disagree with you, per se, though repurcussions for unlicensed/under-licensed are a joke in most US states and the downvote-happy cowards here are exactly the same sort to declare loudly in their own minds that their own shit habits are totally rational and in the best interests of everyone else on the road — contrary to all logic.
Bottom line, if you aren’t piloting your vehicle with respect for its lethal potential and the responsibility to not be a gawdamn obstacle, you’re a fucking clown that shouldn’t be behind the wheel. Pour on the pointless downvotes, redditors; your silence says everything.
Yeah, it’s just like people complaining about traffic when their car takes up as much space as everyone else.
The problem is two fold:
- too many cars
- poor driving
The first is the bigger issue, but the second shouldn’t be discounted.
Insinuating that traffic is caused by the size of cars is like saying blood cells cause heart attacks. Shit drivers contribute to traffic conditions more than anyone here seems willing to recognize, and being a self-important fuckstick in the passing lane trying to make everyone else behave like you want is directly causing traffic.
Bottom line: if you’re not the fastest vehicle in the far right lane, get the fuck over.
Didn’t even get me started on entrance ramps or blinkers or stopping at non-existent stop signs. Those are also related to how far one’s head is up one’s own ass, but I’ve better things to do here than shake my young guy stick at a blithe population beset with systemic mental health issues. 🤷🏼♂️
traffic is caused by the size of cars
It’s the density of people on roads that’s an issue. When you add more lanes, you get more conflict, which also reduces traffic flow. It’s an inefficient way to move a lot of people.
And no, someone driving 65 in a 70 or whatever isn’t causing traffic directly, but they are contributing to road rage, which does cause traffic. Traffic is caused by conflict, which increases the more lanes and cars you have on a roadway. Reducing the density of cars on roads reduces conflict, thus traffic.
Teaching people to drive better will have limited impact. The better change is to make more efficient ways to move people so there’s less conflict.
Your whole comment is entitlement. If the vehicle in the passing lane is going the speed limit, or matching the speed of cars traveling in the other lane, then sure, you have an argument.
But if traffic in the center lane is moving at 70 mph, and the car in front of you is traveling at 75 mph in the passing lane, but you’re doing 80+, guess what?!
You can flash your lights and use every blinker in your car that you want, you’re reckless driving, traveling at speeds that are unsafe, and the cop that pulls you over isn’t gonna give a flying fuck that you were in the passing lane.
And y’know how I can tell you view the passing lane as a personal camping lane? Because you never indicated that you, or the people flashing their lights/blinkers/horns/whatever, ever move back over. The left lane is not for camping, it’s for passing and then merging back over.
No one needs to move more quickly because you feel the need for speed, or are late for who fucking cares. You wanna drive fast? Take your shitbox to a track and drive like an asshole to your hearts content.
So unless those lights you’re flashing are red and blue with a siren, you can kiss my sweet, 5 mph-over-the-speed-limit driving ass.
No it’s efficiency and common sense. If people behind you want to pass and you have space to move out of the passing lane move. Then they can go the speed they want to go and you can go the speed you want to go. What you’re saying is they should have to go the speed you want to go, why?
Don’t argue with traffic. They like being part of something. 🤣
What you’re saying is they should have to go the speed you want to go, why?
There’s lots of this sentiment on this platform, and the answer is simple, they’re power hungry little trolls with nothing better going on in their lives than inconveniencing other people on the freeway so that they can feel some measure of control over another person.
Explain to me, under what circumstances, you need to go more than 10 mph over the speed limit. Don’t pull “my wife is in labor” or “I severed my hand” or some nonsense, if a car is coming up and making it obvious they’re in distress, fine, that’s one thing.
But literally no other justification exists other than “hur dur I want go fast vroom vroom.” You’re endangering the lives of everyone around you because you feel everyone should make way for you. It’s entitlement, and it’s reckless driving.
“The speed you want to go” is a very disingenuous way to describe the speed limit
What the fuck do you think this post is about?
Breaking the law, which brings us back around to entitlement. It is not my responsibility to enable anyones reckless driving. If I am no longer passing someone I will happily get over, but until then you all can slow your impatient ass’s down and wait for once in your life. I’d much rather you be behind me than in front when you inevitably get into an accident.
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Um I guess you forgot the results of that test… Changing lanes got to the destination faster, not always by a large amount but obviously there are always other factors. But don’t let facts get in the way of your biases.
Maybe it was the number of other more scientific studies that I remember.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378437123006155
Because you’re not entitled to go the speed you want to go. If there’s nineteen cars behind you and the car in front is only going half a mile an hour faster than the people they’re passing… sure. But if you’re one car and they’re one car, you are not entitled to go any faster than they are. They’re entitled to go the speed they want… because they got their first. You want to go faster? Wait your fucking turn.
From right to left, the lanes are for drivers who follow the laws as written, the laws as enforced, and the laws of physics.
Left is for passing, if you’re just driving then you’re in the right lane until you come up on someone to pass
If they’re blocking you then why don’t you just pass them on the right?
illegal
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Speeding is “illegal” too, so that’s not really much of an argument.
It’s a great argument actually. Speeding on the highway is generally expected. Going 20 over in front of a cop is unlikely to get you pulled over in most of the U.S. The cops are more than likely doing the same thing. Passing on the right on the other hand is very likely to get you pulled over if a cop sees it. It’s a very dangerous move to pull because it’s not something other drivers can predict that you’ll do. The last thing you want to do is turn a middle or right lane into a passing lane. Then the slower drivers that just want to cruise will be pressured to move, possibly into the left lane which is now no longer a passing lane which compounds the issue, and you just get chaos where different lanes are all going different speeds at random.
They should pull over the person who got passed on the right instead. If someone is able to pass you on the right you’re in the wrong lane.
Try Florida… It’s the norm
No, they pass on the shoulder lmao. (Grew up in FL)
In California passing on the right is expected
There’s a saying that I really like that seems relevant here - only break one law at a time.
Its legitimately unsafe. Having traffic on one side consistently faster than you and the other side slower greatly reduces the chance of accidents because you can have have some relative assurance that speeding up while merging left is safe and slowing down while merging right is safe. It also keeps faster traffic out of and further away from onramps/offramps.
Drive safe, don’t be an asshole, its not that complicated.
No mf I want to drive 100+ that means I’m gonna pass on the right
/sarcasm
I mean, if you’re about that life, then yeah, gonna have to start weavin’ but that’s half the fun.
I need to buy a shitbox to throw boost at…
I’m just going to go ahead and assume that both of you are taking into account that not everywhere has the same roads - IMO (and I think it’s just proven logically) the middle of the road should be where the fastest cars are.
On a 4 lane road (with a divider like 2/2) those middle two lanes should have the fast drivers. This way the people who want to go fast do so, and they don’t have to deal with people merging onto the road. Neither do the people merging have to deal with the fast drivers.
Having the middle lane/lanes be the “passing”/speeding lanes is less safe though, because both outside lanes then have to worry about faster traffic merging into them to pass people in the middle lanes, rather than just a single lane. Also the people merging absolutely would still have to deal with fast drivers, when drivers in the faster middle lanes try to pass each other on the right. Doing so would put them in the same lane people are using to merge onto the highway.
Edit: also people in the slower left lane would have to merge into and out of the faster middle passing lanes in order to exit the highway, which just sounds like a recipe for disaster.
Edit edit: are you talking about 4 bidirectional lanes, with, for example, two going north and two going south? If so my bad for the misunderstanding, we actually agree
Two going north, two going south.
Because that makes it harder for them to move back to the right
This is a good philosophy, not just for traffic flow but for safety. If a drunk or disoriented driver is going the wrong way they’re usually going to be in what is to you the left lane, which to them is the right lane. So they’ll just go past you instead of into you.
I once went to a conference as a vendor and they hired a temp to go with us to do a lot of the grunt work and had him drive the van there and back. He would drive under the speed limit in the left lane. When I couldn’t take it anymore and finally said something, he said, “I like driving in the left lane!”
They had to practically hold me back from strangling him.
I’m much calmer these days.
I’ve heard that a society governed purely by logic would be one that never takes emotion into account, one that only sees the cold logic.
That sounds bad. That being said:
We live in a society where people actively enjoy becoming road hazards, subsequently becoming dangerous to others whilst staying relatively safe themselves.
Idk, maybe we meet somewhere in the middle? Cuz I feel like those feelings should not be respected.
Because your wish was granted, right?
He left my presence still breathing, but I assume someone else has strangled him by now.
Depends on where you are, traffic, and driving conditions. Generally though yeah, you stay out of the left lane unless passing when you’re outside of urban and suburban areas.
IT’S CALLED THE FUCKING PASSING LANE FOR CHRISTS SAKE! FUCK!
This sounds like where I live. Everyone is either going 20 over the limit or 10 under it the whole way and both are constantly trying to change lanes for no legitimate reason lol
And most of the time they don’t use their turn signals
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This is probably the thing people understand the least about the left lane, and I bet this guy is one of em.
It doesn’t matter what speed you are passing, as long as you are passing (and of course if you are barely passing youre a dick).
But not because im passing 10km/h faster and you want to pass 30km/h faster, that I need to move out of the way. Flashing your lights and putting your blinker only makes me want to pass slower. The left lane is not reserved for the fastest driver on the road.
If someone starts aggressively flashing their lights behind me I like to assume they are trying to alert me that I’m driving too fast and should slow down immediately lol
I usually just get out of the way no matter how fast I’m going. No need to create road rage based on my ego and the asshole flashing me
I assume they’re having an emergency. Or they’re a raging asshole. In either case it’s not a great idea to play games with them. If you ever fuck around and find out I hope you’ll come tell us about it so I can gloat.
So you feel that it would be better for me to either increase to an unsafe speed or force my way back into the slower traffic that I was trying to pass in the first place?
You’re driving at the bleeding edge of what you consider safe, couldn’t possibly pick it up a bit to get by and move over? You’re doing that and have the audacity to judge other drivers? Get the fuck off the road entirely, sell your car, stay indoors.
Ah, so your answer is “why don’t you just do what I tell you?” and beyond that you immediately resort to hurling insults? This is all starting to make a lot of sense now…
You’re claiming to be driving so fast that any increase in speed would make an unsafe situation. Your reading comprehension is so poor that you take offense at non-existent insults. Yeah, you shouldn’t be driving at all.
I was just about to type out another argument, but I realized it’s pointless. You clearly will not be happy with any answer other than “everyone should just let you drive however you want to” with a healthy dose of “the rules only apply to everyone else”…
You have fun with that buddy
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Well there is this thing called a speed limit, that is a very clear hard limit. If you go over, it is at the very least financially unsafe.
There’s also a law that says to yield to overtaking traffic. Where’s the law that says creating a rolling road block is OK? How did I miss the legislation that deputized every self righteous prick as some kind of speed limit enforcer?
I sometimes wonder who died and made them all highway patrol. I just want to get home safe, can people just not fucking ego trip behind the wheel of the 2 ton deathmobile?
Frankly it’s harder than you think for many, the only thing that calms me down and makes me drive absolutely great is weed but I hesitate to drive mildly high too often to not get caught randomly by some pig.
Also it seems like the more time I am driving the more bmw drivers and bmw drivers without bmw piss me off.
makes me drive absolutely great is weed
Hi, I’m an enthusiast.
Fuck you for smoking and driving.
You cannot justify it to me no matter how many times you rephrase “it helps me chill Bro”
It helps me chill bro
What do you mean you are an enthusiast though. Are you my fan? Please tell me you are my fan it would be so cool
Holy shit please do not smoke and drive.
Can’t give any promises 😈
Yes, you can. Please do the responsible thing.
Well you just promised us you’re a piece of shit, so … seems you can
Funny thing about irrational people? Even if you act as safe as you can, they’ll find some way to blame you for being their problem.
Tolerance of intolerance is not tolerance. It’s enablement. Sure, don’t be a petty dick and make the situation worse… but don’t necessarily act the doormat either.
Remember that reddit story about blocking a shoulder passer? (SafeReddit)
Yeah, and never proven to be true.
Sounded a little suspicious on a second read!
I’ve got a similar story, but with a much more positive ending.
Was at a LARP event, camping in the woods, when a girl started having an asthma attack. She’d forgotten her inhaler, no one else had one on hand, and she was visibly turning blue as she suffocated. We called 911, but the nearest hospital was in a city several miles away and the 911 operator couldn’t locate our site to send the ambulance.
We agreed to meet the ambulance on the highway halfway, loaded up in my truck, and I booked it. Pushed my little 4-cylinder Frontier up to 115mph. Fastest I’ve ever driven. I had my hazards going and was flashing my brights like an asshole at every car I overtook. Thank fuck they all yielded to me.
We met the ambulance on the side of the road, transferred her over, and they were able to get her breathing again. She survived.
OMG!
You saved a life ❤️ great collab
I take it to mean that they want me to match the speed of the car beside me.
Don’t most highways have signs that say “Slower Traffic Keep Right” though? So that pretty much negates your argument. If you are slower than the traffic behind you, you should get into the right lane, until you’re no longer slower, then get back into the left if you need to continue passing.
Found one who doesn’t get it! Please turn in your license and save lives!
Decided you weren’t worth it.
I woukd take that to mean if you are faster than the car in the other lane then you are good up until that’s no longer the case (e.g. until you have passed them).
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Passing a car is an active endeavor, not something you languidly perform over a period of 5 minutes. If you’re going 1 mph faster than the car in the right lane, you don’t belong in the passing lane and are impeding the flow of traffic.
Cool story bro.
I literally said that in my original comment. Passing slow is just being a dick. (barely passing are the words I used).
Then i used the examples of 10km/h vs 30. Where did you get that 1mph is acceptable?
From the comment you replied to:
as long as you are passing
If you’re not passing, get over. If you are passing, getting over means merging into another vehicle: don’t do that.
Yes, passing lane – not fast lane.
Faster lane?
My dude that’s just a picture of the means of production being seized.
I suppose I would personally also be on my horn in an emergency but this attitude is why America can’t have nice things. stop policing your fellow slaves and get out of the fucking way.
of course I live in a civilized country so America might just look bad because that’s all that gets posted and most people aren’t attempting to murder motorcycle riders for winning the rat race or shooting up schools.
Kinda lost me there, NGL. 😅 Still, I learned to drive in Detroit & Chicago, and then again in Germany & Italy. The vast majority of US drivers are fucking selfish morons, and the majority of them should not have any license to drive at all. 🙇🏽♂️
I agree as long as the slower driver was already in the process of passing. Cutting off the approaching faster driver is unsafe.
Yeah this makes sense. My comment only refers to already in the lane and passing, and some donkey wants to pass faster and won’t wait 4 seconds until you’re done passing (at a good speed)
One way to earn yourself a premium insurance rate, if you survive. 🤞🏽
Why can’t people drive
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Gotta love freaking weirdo stalkers that go look at your comment history…
Shiddit turned the internet into a bunch of antisocial idiots …
Ok, but that is like a lot of gay porn, like a LOT.
or better still: not drive.
I try to drive so I am as far away from other vehicles as possible. I also try to avoid ever inconveniencing other people. It doesn’t matter if I’m going 140, if you come up behind me, I’m moving over to let you by - as quickly as I can while still being safe. I expect the same from others. Changing lanes isn’t hard, I often move over to let someone by and then go back to continue passing.
Also, please stop passing on the right. You’re just making everything worse.
In Arizona the norm seemed to be to pass fast on the right and go slow on the left. Even on a three lane road, with me going slightly above the speed limit in the middle, idiots would choose to pass on the right rather than use the open left lane. Definitely the worst part about the state in terms of daily experience
140
You mean km/hr, right?
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Km/hr, right?
Meters per second
I did 140mph once. I redlined my poor Civic trying to keep up with a Supra. We were both weaving through traffic (Vegas to L.A.) and I did manage to keep up for a while. Looking back now that I’m older, I’m just really thankful we didn’t cause an accident.
Also, please stop passing on the right. You’re just making everything worse.
Yeah, it’s unsafe, but how is it making things worse? It seems to be making the best of a bad situation, not escalating anything.
The real solution here is to pass and enforce “stay right except to pass” laws. You should only pass on the left, full stop.
Because a good chunk of time your just making it harder for the person who is holding everyone up to move over. I’ve seen lots of people pull out from behind me in the fast lane and go past me and the car in front of me, and then the car in front will move over. Sometimes people do want to get out of the way but people are to impatient to let them.
I’ll give them about 30 seconds. Which is 25 seconds longer than it takes to get in the slow lane.
What the fuck? How is doing something unsafe not making things worse?
I have no choice but to pass on the right because jackasses ride the left lane and drive under the speed limit. The police around here don’t enforce it. Drives me nuts.
Left lane is for passing only. Doesn’t matter how fast you’re driving.
I don’t see anywhere in the image that says they weren’t, only that the author in question was irritable that someone had the gall to drive slower in front of them.
this only applies to not very congested roads. I’m la type areas where there’s always traffic it doesn’t work
