Why are people in this region left lane campers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, you are not entitled to a clear road free of traffic. The rest of us are adjusting our speed to other cars: you can too.

The point is that on any highway that's not terribly congested, driving properly (using the left lane for passing only) means that NO ONE needs to adjust their speed to other cars. The "drive in the right lane, pass in the left" takes care of that problem entirely! Everyone can drive at their desired speed!

(It's not Ohioans, I learned to drive there. I blame Maryland.)

Have you ever driven on the beltway?

[Anonymous]

Hmm not sure where you drive where there is room to move into the right lanes . . . .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hmm not sure where you drive where there is room to move into the right lanes . . . .

Half the time if I can't get over, it's because the people racing up behind me go to pass me on the right before I have a chance to get over after I've passed someone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A lot of the time it’s because people are idiots and/or on their phones.

+1

Or want to play hall monitor.

The good news is that because so many VA drivers park in the left lane I just zoom past them all in the right lane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hmm not sure where you drive where there is room to move into the right lanes . . . .

Half the time if I can't get over, it's because the people racing up behind me go to pass me on the right before I have a chance to get over after I've passed someone.

You should have gotten over right away. Not waiting until someone comes up behind you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in central Virginia and it's terrible here. We regularly drive west on 64 and someone will camp out in the left lane going the speed limit. I have no idea what they are thinking. I grew up in NJ where you do NOT stay in the left lane unless you're going so fast that no one can catch you.

Then this summer we drove in Italy and oh boy, they make New Jersey highways look like children driving go-carts. I constantly saw people get right up to the bumper of the car in front of them. At least the slower driver always got over.

I'm definitely a fan of driving cultures that emphasize getting over so people can pass. I think that hogging the left lane because maybe at some point you might pass a slow tractor or something is a terrible sin.

+1

It’s just basic road etiquette to stay right, pass left.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hmm not sure where you drive where there is room to move into the right lanes . . . .

Half the time if I can't get over, it's because the people racing up behind me go to pass me on the right before I have a chance to get over after I've passed someone.

You should have gotten over right away. Not waiting until someone comes up behind you.

Did you read the bolded? Can you read?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hmm not sure where you drive where there is room to move into the right lanes . . . .

Half the time if I can't get over, it's because the people racing up behind me go to pass me on the right before I have a chance to get over after I've passed someone.

You should have gotten over right away. Not waiting until someone comes up behind you.

Did you read the bolded? Can you read?

You’re clearly not making much effort to get over quickly if people are frequently passing you on the right.

[Anonymous]

I think it’s all the foreign drivers. I don’t think they understand this America custom. Otherwise it’s indignant, idiotic, or self absorbed drivers who don’t care. It’s infuriating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When there is traffic in every lane, I'm staying in the fastest lane that is moving. I'm not sitting in slower traffic because you want to go faster and neither is the line of cars in front of me. We all want to move faster than we are, you aren't special

You’re the biggest dbag on the road. Thank god we have insane idiots like you who think they should be policing the speed and flow of traffic. If you are in the left lane, pass and GET OUT OF THE WAY.

Because of idiots like you, traffic is 100x worse and worsening safety.

Get an education:

[Anonymous]

If I'm passing the cars in right lane, I don't care that I'm "only" going 9 miles over the speed limit in the left lane. I'll keep passing on the left until I can get over even if I'm not going as fast as you'd like in the the left (i.e., 20+ miles over the speed limit)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s all the foreign drivers. I don’t think they understand this America custom. Otherwise it’s indignant, idiotic, or self absorbed drivers who don’t care. It’s infuriating.

Everyone I know who grew up in VA parks in the left lane. It’s a thing here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I'm passing the cars in right lane, I don't care that I'm "only" going 9 miles over the speed limit in the left lane. I'll keep passing on the left until I can get over even if I'm not going as fast as you'd like in the the left (i.e., 20+ miles over the speed limit)

Yes, you are the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:GET OUT OF THE WAY. If you're not passing in the left lane and there are people behind you, move over. Why is it so hard? The amount of times you drive and get stuck by someone going slow in the left lane is infuriating. It causes sooooo much traffic when people cannot pass because some moron is going slow in the left lane or is going the same speed as other cars and is creating a wall. Get the heck outta the way. You also cause higher risk for accidents, because now everyone has to weave in an out of traffic to get around your a$$ since you're clogging up the flow of traffic. People around here probably have the lowest driving IQ I've ever seen anywhere in this country. It's worse here than LA, NY, and Chicago. Why are there so many oblivious people around here in the roads? Lack of testing by states and DC?

No! On the beltway the speed limit is generally 65 and traffic is dense. Everyone in the right lane is going 65 and everyone in the left lane is already going 75. And you're the reckless tailgating a$$hat who wants everyone to move over so you can go 100?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I'm passing the cars in right lane, I don't care that I'm "only" going 9 miles over the speed limit in the left lane. I'll keep passing on the left until I can get over even if I'm not going as fast as you'd like in the the left (i.e., 20+ miles over the speed limit)

Yes, you are the problem.

No, someone going 9 mph over the speed limit and actually passing cars is not the problem. The problem is when two drivers both essentially want to drive the speed limit, but one is cautious so they want to drive exactly the speed limit or 1 mph slower and the other wants to drive exactly the speed limit or 1 mph over, so that second driver gets in the left lane and then takes 10 minutes to pass the other driver.