I’ve had people tailgate me in the right lane for miles before deciding to pass, even with a completely open left lane. And it’s usually a pickup.
Why not just pull into the empty left lane and have them pass on the right? One less thing for you to think about.
I did this recently, scared the shit out of them and they quickly found a spot to turn off and park. I think they thought I was trying to do some kind of pit maneuver to get behind them or something, when I just wanted them off my ass.
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Because the safest thing for everyone is to drive predictably, and that means following the rules and you don’t pass in the right lane.
Being able to drive safely also means being able to prioritize. It’s not to anyone’s benefit to be so blinded by the rules that you’d drive into a brick wall if one appeared in the road.
Spineless drivers are nearly as dangerous as arrogant drivers.
Who said anything about being spineless.
FYI, everyone who drives near you hates you.
Definitely not true. I drove a cab for 12 years, it went great. I don’t tailgate, I don’t get in people’s way, and I don’t drive like a feckless confused imbicile.
you don’t pass in the right lane
Unless you’re in Houston, where you often get passed on the right even when you’re in the right-most lane.
most people are brain dead cruise control zombies. i stay as far away from all cars on the highway as possible.
… there’s nothing wrong with cruise control
no there isn;t. there’s a problem with zombie drivers though
In Europe, its either a BMW or a Porsche, like this behind you. Blinking their lights, ever there is no space for you to move.
They can flash their lights as much as they like, when I am cycling I don’t have mirrors so I won’t even see it. Then they start revving. Yeah I don’t care. I am here, won’t kill you to wait for the children to finish crossing the road.
The trucks will often flash their lights as well, often blinding drivers of sedans and smaller SUVs due to height difference and poor regulations for headlight height.
I’ve been in situations like that, where I was more than happy to pull over and let them pass, but I missed all the safe spots because I couldn’t see them while being blinded. I had to drive slower because they made it harder to see ahead on dangerous mountain roads, too. Bloody idiots.
I want a mirror whose only purpose is to force SUVs to turn off their high beams. Somebody’s gonna be blinded either way; better it be brief than constant.
I find the night mode on my rear view does okay at reducing the high beams light, but my side mirrors become blindingly bright if they get hit at the right angle.
At least those I can rotate back up at the offender.
This but me going the legal limit on an e-scooter on a road-bikelane with a truck riding half of the lane right behind me.
my radar detector says time to let them by
at night with brights. how about 10mph until they rage on by.
It’s the same when there’s a BMW, Audi or MB behind you. You can’t go fast enough to get them in your neck.
It always seems like white dudes in pickup trucks are the biggest assholes in the world
they give white women in SUVs a run for their money
(disclaimer am white woman. don’t drive SUV tho. moped/ebike)
Had one doing that while I was going the same speed as the 10 cars in front of me on the highway during traffic time. He was flashing his lights and when there was an opening on my right he changed lane and then I saw… The guy was in a full size truck and was pulling a 20’ trailer and was trying to pass me on the right and squeeze between me and the car in front of me so he would have been stuck behind them instead. I didn’t give him enough space, he got back behind me even more angry than before and 3km later reached his exit so he wouldn’t have saved a single second if I had let him through.
Was driving on the highway and it was packed. It wasn’t stop go, but we were under the speed limit with cars lined up as far as you can see.
I look in my review and I can’t even see the headlights of the guy behind me over my bumper. (I’m in a sedan, not a high bumper by a long shot). This is a dangerous situation so I ease off the gas and move over as soon as I get a chance.
This guy then proceeds to pass me, move in front of me, and slow down. I’m sorry, I thought you were in a rush considering how much you were riding my ass, but looks like you have plenty of time to be an asshole.
Next gap in the left lane and I pull over and accelerate, he doesn’t have room to get in front of me, and doesn’t have room to get behind me again due to all the cars.I have no idea how long he had to wait to get back into the left lane, but for someone so impatient he was very effective at wasting his own time.
It’s crazy to me how many pickup trucks with trailers drive so recklessly, it’s like they don’t know they are hitching something. I see other cars being accommodating to them by slowing down more than usual to let them merge in.
I’ve seen one stuck sideways on the highway with his trailer flipped on its side and another driving in the middle of the night in the fog without any working lights on the trailer… Maybe they should require an exam before you can tow…
It’s funny how the ‘acceptable’ amount to go over the speed limit is always 10. No matter if it’s kph or mph. It’s 10.
nice round number
“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”
— George Carlin
Especially when there’s a free passing lane.
this always makes me think about logic and math.
speed limit is 70. that INCLUDES the passing lane. if I am passing someone who’s going 65, at most I can go 70.
I am NOT camping in the passing lane. I’m just not willing to get pulled over and possibly shot. Guy behind me can deal with it.
Would probably be best for overall traffic efficiency and safer for you too to slow down to that 65 than pass going 70
sure in the same way it would to just stay home.
I meant more in the traffic situation but if that’s an option for you then sure why not
no see i meant the ass who expects me to speed to pass someone because they drive like they gotta poop and are holding a mug of hot soup at the same time.
stop. speeding. washing your blood off the road is keeping me from sleeping back at the station.
i meant the ass who expects me to speed to pass someone
In the situation you described that’d be pretty much everyone. 70 vs 65 would be a bit ridiculous.
right. if i am going 70, passing someone going 65, and someone zoops up trying to do 80 they can wait until I move back over.
It’s just that passing so slow and when the limit is 70 makes it a bit dangerous to you (and others) since you know that others aren’t going to be traveling at that speed or passing that slowly.
Would be less of an issue if someone was going 50 and you were passing at the speed limit at 70.
What’s with Lemmy and Avatar memes as of late?
Not that I’m complaining. I’m a foaming mouth guy tier fan, but I see a Koh the Face Stealer meme as more niche than, I dunno, a Doge meme or Spongebob.
Occasionally I just get on trends. If I see something posted and I’ve got memes of it, I’ll stick with the trend. Sometimes I’m just like fuck it I’ma just post the same thing a bunch which is why last week I had like 8 ratatoiulle memes in one day
I’m all for that.
There was a King of the Hill phase I was rather fond of too.
I love my Mustang for this one reason. People don’t ride my ass and get out of my way. It’s nice.
I drive a NV200 (compact cargo van).
I could be driving warp 7 in a school zone and I swear people would be passing me and flipping the bird. It’s like they see that is not made for speed, so they’re required to treat it as slow.
I’d say those are hard to see around. So people are passing you to clear up their view.
It’s really not, though. It’s what New York uses for Taxis.
Does it have windows or metal doors and sides?
I have a strategy for when I get tailgated in the slow lane and it’s not brake checking because that’s what they expect. I’ll lock the cruise control to my desired speed. They get right up on my ass and don’t back off, I speed up putting space between me and them. At this point they’ll speed up and I’ll take my foot off the gas and let the car slow down back to cruise control speed. Repeat as necessary. The trick is to never touch the brakes. The driver behind me is alternating between speeding up and hitting the brakes. Eventually they’ll get tired of it and either pass or back off
Thanks I’m gonna try this
I just realized the meme says 10 MILES above the speed limit.
10 km/h above the limit is pretty standard here in Canada.
10 m/h over is crazy.
10 mph over is completely standard in most of the US. Less so on residential roads, of course.
10 MPH over the signed limit on the highway is very typical here in the US. And yeah it’s not great, lots of car fatalities here.
Pretty standard where I’m from.
If the speed is 55, most people are going 65. Cops won’t mess with you for it unless you give them a reason. You know, having a dead tag, a dead sticker, being black, brake lights are out, something like that.
People in cali (at least norcal) go 80mph, some go even faster (like 100 lol) on the highway
Socal is always a traffic jam so probably not applicable there
