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So people following the speed limit, not those who feel the need to exceed it but get pissed off when they can't, are the real reason for road rage.
And it's not about any driver trying to regulate the speed of others. The point is that you don't have any room to complain when all someone is (intentionally or, more likely, inadvertently) doing is preventing you from breaking the law even more than you probably already are. You don't have some inalienable right to speed on the highway. If the person in the left lane is going the speed limit or faster, they are not in your way.
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Originally Posted by AnonChick
Yup. Most aggression on the highways is caused by people who just flat out won't get out of the way. If people would stay to the right except to pass, all those road-rage people would be able to relax a bit, and stop tailgating and flashing their high-beams and being menaces on the road. This is WHY we have a passing-lane rule. The rule exists to prevent frustration and road rage and rolling roadblocks and tailgating and high-beam-flashing.
You mind your own business, go whatever speed you're going, and if you feel the need to pass someone you move to the left lane, pass them, and when you're done, return to the right lane.
You have to be pretty stupid, selfish, and myopic to not understand the concept. Sadly, stupid, selfish, and myopic are not against the law.
So people following the speed limit, not those who feel the need to exceed it but get pissed off when they can't, are the real reason for road rage.
And it's not about any driver trying to regulate the speed of others. The point is that you don't have any room to complain when all someone is (intentionally or, more likely, inadvertently) doing is preventing you from breaking the law even more than you probably already are. You don't have some inalienable right to speed on the highway. If the person in the left lane is going the speed limit or faster, they are not in your way.
They are if they're not passing another vehicle, as the law requires them to be doing.
So people following the speed limit, not those who feel the need to exceed it but get pissed off when they can't, are the real reason for road rage.
And it's not about any driver trying to regulate the speed of others. The point is that you don't have any room to complain when all someone is (intentionally or, more likely, inadvertently) doing is preventing you from breaking the law even more than you probably already are. You don't have some inalienable right to speed on the highway. If the person in the left lane is going the speed limit or faster, they are not in your way.
If the person in the RIGHT lane is going under the speed limit, you have the RIGHT to pass them on the left. The person in the left lane does NOT have the right to prevent that.
You could use a chip in car's. Then if anyone goes 15 MPH on CT roads more than 5 minutes automatic ticket is sent to their mailbox via the chip. Then if anyone is 2 feet behind someone longer than a minute while driving over 10 MPH again another ticket sent via the monitoring by the chip. Could be used at stop signs for driving through them, illegal turns on right on red's, and going through a red light.
That's crazy and way too big brother for me.
Route 9 is the one that bugs me the most, it's 2 lanes and so often you get a car in each lane that drive next to each other but never passing so the cars behind them can go around. That's, imo, the most obnoxious and dangerous.
If I'm not going fast enough in the left lane I'll gladly merge right. Let the faster car go past me and let them get pulled over for speeding.
Road rage is real and dangerous. It's not worth it to me.
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