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People who go beyond the speed limit are threatening the lives of everyone around them. I am telling you this since I learned from your post you are too ignorant to know it. Speed kills!
How are people using the left lane for its proper use threatening the lives of everyone around them?. Speed doesnt in and of itself kill its usually morons pulling bonehead maneuvers that are resonsible for accidents,idiots going through stop signs and red lights people who dont have a clue about driving.not the guy doing 10 over the speed limit on the interstate passing cars in the passing lane and going with the flow of traffic..
But the TV set said "Speed Kills"...so let's all chant in unison...speed kills, speed kills, speed kills. Who's up for some home-brew road policing, let's all camp out on the road and show everyone else what speed they should be going! Think of how powerful we will feel then!
How about we all just take some anger management classes and learn how to read a speed limit sign and we wont have to worry about having this same argument every other day?
It's just the way some people are wired. I have friends that are simply incapable of not passing the person in front of them regardless of how fast that person is going. They'll literally risk their lives to save a few minutes everyday.
You didn't answer the question. You just answered the question with another question. If someone wants to pass and you are driving in the left lane, why wouldn't you switch lanes and allow them to do so? I'm sorry but I fail to see any gain by sitting in the left lane and not switching lanes so they can pass? If anything, you are just escalating a potential road rage incident which could jeopardize your life and the lives of others on the road.
You assumed I drive fast based on my response. Actually, I'm like you. I drive the speed limit, however, I am mature enough to switch lanes when I see a dangerously fast driver in my rear window. I have too much going on in my life to fight with another driver. It doesn't matter if the other driver is wrong for speeding, it only matters that I arrive home safely to my family. I have a very loving family and a successful career. I have a lot to lose. The idea that I can somehow "get even" with the rude driver behind me by refusing to switch lanes is immature and petty. Furthermore, I don't need to escalate a road rage incident and I'm not going to pretend to know the psyche of the aggressive driver behind me. What I do know is that I've treated patients in the emergency department who were victims of road rage. Most road rage incidents are often the result of an aggressive driver fighting a passive aggressive driver who refuses to switch lanes.
I have witnessed drivers who deliberately sit in the left lane refusing to allow other drivers to pass. When I see this, I drive really slow in the right lane knowing that a potential accident could occur as the aggressive driver will attempt to dangerously overtake the driver in the left lane.
Drop your ego and allow the crazy driver to pass you. Two wrongs don't make a right. There are a lot of crazy people on the road, it's not your job to teach them a lesson. Don't make it more dangerous for everyone else because you are trying to prove a point on the road. I would really hope that you value more in your life than your ego. And even if you don't feel like you have much to offer in life, I'm sure there are people who love you that would disagree with you.
Again (amazing how many people apparently don't actually read the thread), I've stated several times that I don't drive in the left lane except to pass or take a left exit. That STILL does not change right and wrong as far as the traffic laws are concerned, NOR does it change the fact that there are people on here whose egos are so tied up in how heavy their foot is that they can't see the simple fact that they are choosing, intentionally and with malice aforethought, to break the speed limit law and at the same time are insisting that other drivers obey the move right law so that they themselves find it easier to break the speed limit law. See how hypocritical that is? Why aren't you advising them to drop their egos?
Yes, I let speed demons by if I should happen to be in the left lane passing someone in the right, as soon as I can safely complete the pass and move over without endangering anyone else (the speed demon notwithstanding). Actually, it's a good way to pull off the cops up ahead for everyone else. But this is not something they are entitled to by right; the slower traffic keep right law means, again, traffic driving slower than the speed limit is to keep right.
It would be amusing, if it weren't frightening, to see just how far people here will go to avoid acknowledging that they are doing something wrong and that they think that they are ENTITLED to speed because, well, well, because they ARE, that's why! And how hard they will work to deny the very clear fact that they have made that choice and that no one else really owes it to them to do likewise or to accommodate them, and that they are flat wrong in their idea that their wish to break the law overrides everyone else's wish to obey it.
Again, if you are obeying the speed limit laws, there is no problem.
If you are breaking the speed limit laws, you have given up any right to whine because someone else doesn't obey a different law that you want them to because it makes it easier for YOU to break the law. And, for that matter, you have given up any right to whine because someone else is obeying the law, which is what most of this is on here, if you're honest about it.
Grow up and get over it.
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