Why are you hanging out in the left lane?

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Anonymous wrote:The same applies for those towing a trailer. Any time you’re towing a trailer, stay in the far right lane.

You are not a good driver. And you have never told a trailer before.

A trailer needs to stay in the middle lane or the 2nd from the far right lane. That is because the far right lane is often for cars merging or exiting, and a trailer is not agile enough to quickly accelerate or decelerate.

I tow trailers for a living smart a$$. If someone doesn’t know how to merge, they shouldn’t be driving. If someone is behind me while I’m towing and they want to pass me, go the F around me. I’m not risking my load for A holes like you or anyone else.

Interesting. So you tow trailers for work, and in your professional opinion you think all trailers should drive in the far right lane. Please explain more.

Experience, not opinion.

Ok gotcha. You are experienced. But what's the reasoning for this? Genuinely curious

Not the PP, but I think it is the job of the person merging on to the highway to enter the lane safely. This means speeding up or slowing down to do so. Vehicles in the right lane do not need to move left to let you in.

If you can safely do so, you are supposed to move left when approaching an on ramp merge lane so traffic can maintain speed.

+1 I almost always do this when the lane next to me is clear. But I’m not deathly afraid of changing lanes like half of this thread is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here are legitimate reasons for not yielding to faster cars in the left lane, at least not right away

1. Left exit in a few miles, give a left turn signal to indicate you are there for the left exit
2. Left lane ended and merged with your lane, give a right turn signal to indicate you would like to move over to the right lane when you feel you can do this safely
3. Traffic jam
4. You have been deputized by state police to be a traffic monitor, be prepared to show official authorization

A few miles?! No, get out of the left lane. It's not for cruising slowly for several miles. Half a mile before your exit? Ok.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here are legitimate reasons for not yielding to faster cars in the left lane, at least not right away

1. Left exit in a few miles, give a left turn signal to indicate you are there for the left exit
2. Left lane ended and merged with your lane, give a right turn signal to indicate you would like to move over to the right lane when you feel you can do this safely
3. Traffic jam
4. You have been deputized by state police to be a traffic monitor, be prepared to show official authorization

A few miles?! No, get out of the left lane. It's not for cruising slowly for several miles. Half a mile before your exit? Ok.

First, stop speeding up and blocking me when I try to change lanes, mkay?

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Anonymous wrote:I truly disagree with a practice that rewards the driver who is going the absolute maximum number of miles per hour his or her car will drive.

If I'm in the left lane with my cruise control set at 15 miles over the speed limit, you can just wait behind me because you are clearly a menace to society.

No, you don't get to dictate my speed by hanging out in the left lane. Why do you get off on policing others' behavior?

Honestly nobody else really cares, we're just going with the flow of traffic. You're the one with the crazy road rage.

Seriously. Unfortunately more and more drivers are behaving aggressively. Too many reckless speeders and tailgaters is why we have so many fatalities.

If you stayed in the right lane unless you are passing or exiting, those of us trying to get around you wouldn't have road rage. Why must you insist that 5 or 10 miles an hour over the posted speed limit is as high as you are comfortable letting other people drive?

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Anonymous wrote:This just applies to highways. The rest of our roads are way too crowded to leave one whole lane open for people who want to go 20+ the speed limit. Although I do think you need to be going at least 5 over to get in the left lane. It’s still the faster lane, just not a passing lane.

Seriously.

Are you people really trying to tell us that you believe the left lane in this photo should be empty except for drivers who are "only' passing the car in front of them?

No, only you morons who can't understand this very simple rule think that.

But, for example, near the top middle of the photo is a car that is well behind the car in front of it about to go by a truck, which itself is behind the car in front of it. It may be the case that, when the car is done passing the truck, it should move over into that space so that other cars behind it might be able to pass. Now, it's tough to tell from a static image at this angle exactly what's going on, but that is a possibility in the photo.

You're an idiot. That car is maintaining a safe distance. You might try it sometime instead of tailgating like a raging lunatic.

Look, we're all trying to get home, so quit complaining already that you can't have the left lane all to yourself to go 90.

My husband is with you and tries to keep what he calls a safe distance on a crowded highway. That just means cars are constantly cutting into our lane, which they wouldn't do if he didn't leave so much room between him and the car in front of him.

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Anonymous wrote:This just applies to highways. The rest of our roads are way too crowded to leave one whole lane open for people who want to go 20+ the speed limit. Although I do think you need to be going at least 5 over to get in the left lane. It’s still the faster lane, just not a passing lane.

Seriously.

Are you people really trying to tell us that you believe the left lane in this photo should be empty except for drivers who are "only' passing the car in front of them?

Literally no one said that. Are you having trouble following?

For the other 20 hours in the day when the beltway looks like this, please don’t be a d1ck and simply keep right & pass left:


It’s really not that hard. Give it a try.

Only if you first don't break the law by speeding and reckless driving.

Ok.

No speeding.
No reckless driving.
No driving in the left lane unless passing.

We good?

I'm already going the speed limit. Unless you are breaking the law, it is physically impossible to pass me.

So I am going to go 5 miles an hour over the speed limit and pass you on the right. Is that the outcome you want, since you can't control the fact that I'd like to drive 7 miles an hour over the speed limit, even if you don't want me to?

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Anonymous wrote:This just applies to highways. The rest of our roads are way too crowded to leave one whole lane open for people who want to go 20+ the speed limit. Although I do think you need to be going at least 5 over to get in the left lane. It’s still the faster lane, just not a passing lane.

Seriously.

Are you people really trying to tell us that you believe the left lane in this photo should be empty except for drivers who are "only' passing the car in front of them?

Literally no one said that. Are you having trouble following?

For the other 20 hours in the day when the beltway looks like this, please don’t be a d1ck and simply keep right & pass left:


It’s really not that hard. Give it a try.

Only if you first don't break the law by speeding and reckless driving.

Ok.

No speeding.
No reckless driving.
No driving in the left lane unless passing.

We good?

I'm already going the speed limit. Unless you are breaking the law, it is physically impossible to pass me.

So I am going to go 5 miles an hour over the speed limit and pass you on the right. Is that the outcome you want, since you can't control the fact that I'd like to drive 7 miles an hour over the speed limit, even if you don't want me to?

PP is reliving her patrol glory days

[Anonymous]

The needless bloodshed needs to stop:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/06/reckless-driving-is-causing-spike-traffic-fatalities-we-must-do-better/

Please slow down and don't worry so much about other people in front of you going the speed limit. Road rage kills!!!

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Anonymous wrote:The needless bloodshed needs to stop:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/06/reckless-driving-is-causing-spike-traffic-fatalities-we-must-do-better/

Please slow down and don't worry so much about other people in front of you going the speed limit. Road rage kills!!!

More from the article:

The immediate cause of the on-the-road carnage is not mysterious. Both police records and public polling — not to mention personal observations — show a major decline in good behavior by the nation’s drivers over the course of the pandemic. Semi-empty streets early in the pandemic permitted speeding and risky attitudes that persisted even as the economy reopened.

According to a recent survey by Erie Insurance, a majority of drivers say they noticed more drivers driving at high speeds than they had previously. One in 10 admitted to doing it themselves.

Drag racing is up, too. In California, the number of people receiving tickets for driving more than 100 miles per hour nearly doubled during the pandemic. So is driving under the influence. Nevada Highway Patrol busted almost twice as many people for driving under the influence in April 2020 than they did the same month the year prior.

The victims are young and old, rich and poor. They have died when cars spin out of control. They have died in multi-car crashes. And they have died when cars struck them while they were walking or biking. Less than 24 hours before Ruggs crashed into Tintor, an alleged drunken driver in Mississippi killed Allison Conaway, 39, and her 6-month-old son — and severely injured her two daughters. The day after, Wilma Chan, 72, a longtime San Francisco-area politician, was hit and killed while crossing a street in Alameda, Calif., with her dog.

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This used to be taught in driving lessons....my new driver said it was never mentioned! Makes me ragey.

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Anonymous wrote:This used to be taught in driving lessons....my new driver said it was never mentioned! Makes me ragey.

My DH is from VA and said it wasn’t taught there.

No wonder it’s such a problem around here!

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Anonymous wrote:This used to be taught in driving lessons....my new driver said it was never mentioned! Makes me ragey.

My DH is from VA and said it wasn’t taught there.

No wonder it’s such a problem around here!

But they definitely teach you about not speeding and reckless driving. And yet it's such a problem around here, as the article points out.