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In some areas the usual 'lane of travel' rule is reversed. Fast traffic passes on the right, while the left lane is the 'slow' lane. I saw this in Virginia for a while. The police would stake out the left lane for speed enforcement, so people traveling in that lane would obey the speed limit, and people driving faster would stick to the outer lanes. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense from a safety perspective, but that was the local custom.
One other observation of many of the people driving exceptionally slow (in any lane) are those who are texting, talking, or surfing the web, oblivious to the others near them. These are usually not "geezers' but...well you can fill in the blanks based on your experiences.
I never hassle anyone in the slow lane, they could be having any number of issues including age, mechanical issue (donut spare) or be unfamiliar with the car, style of driving or area etc.
Sadly, these are the same people that do stuff like getting up to about 40mph before merging onto a 70mph posted interstate and leaving you at the mercy of having to merge at that same speed....or that NEVER change lanes and instead form slow-lane conga-lines where they don't look left or right and on 2-3 occasions I've literally been run off the road on short merges by people like this.
This is so laughable. Oh my god, i need two whole seconds to figure out what I'm going to do, oh poor me.
Pay up your insurance, because every accident I've managed to avoid through quick reactions you're going to *ahem* not avoid. Because you've already decided not to avoid them.
I didn't even understand the premise of the original post until I started reading the responses. I was trying to figure out of the OP was upset that the person who was going 5 over the speed limit was in the wrong lane, or what?
In my area, they just raised the interstate speed limit to 80mph. They now ticket at 81mph. The number of issued tickets has gone through the roof. So even going 5 over is dangerous if you don't want to get pulled over.
Sounds to me like in that case, going 5 over is dangerous if you don't want to die.
You know what leaving "plenty of space" between you and the driver in front of you gets you? Someone pulling in between you and the driver in front of you. Leave your CA driving rules at the NY border please, they're useless here.
You know what leaving "plenty of space" between you and the driver in front of you gets you? Someone pulling in between you and the driver in front of you. Leave your CA driving rules at the NY border please, they're useless here.
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