Why are you hanging out in the left lane?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Although I got tailgated yesterday on the Beltway going 10 over... in the right lane, with plenty of space to the left. Tailgaters are just nuts.

Even if someone is parking in the left lane, you're an idiot if you don't leave following distance it's a basic safety measure.

This thread isn’t about tailgaters. It’s about people who don’t follow the universal rules of the road. It’s inconsiderate and dangerous.

[Anonymous]

I don’t buy the ignorance excuse, I think these imbeciles are small minded, miserable, evil little people who enjoy making others angry.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Although I got tailgated yesterday on the Beltway going 10 over... in the right lane, with plenty of space to the left. Tailgaters are just nuts.

Even if someone is parking in the left lane, you're an idiot if you don't leave following distance it's a basic safety measure.

This thread isn’t about tailgaters. It’s about people who don’t follow the universal rules of the road. It’s inconsiderate and dangerous.

Universal rules of the road include proper following distance. The reality of driving is that someone on the road with you is likely to do something stupid today. Parking in the left lane, passing without signaling, cutting you off. How you react determines what kind of driver you are. And if you respond to someone parking in the left lane by tailgating them, you are choosing to exacerbate a situation and make it more dangerous.

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Anonymous wrote:Often it is because aggressive assholes like the above poster keep passing on the right and I can’t get over.

Yes!! OMG..can you give me a moment to get over please? I am normally already going about 7-10 miles over the speed limit, and there is a car to my right and you are on my tail. I have to now gas it and try to get in front of the car next to me, just so you can now go 20miles over the speed limit. So intead I slow down so all you people can pass me and I can get over...geez!

Ugh you are the worst driver. Unpredictable, inconsistent and nervous.

You are worse. Agressive and dangerous.

Agree; between the two of you the aggressive jerk is the worst kind of driver on the road, responsible for most accidents.

NP but this is dead wrong. The vast majority of people who drive fast on the left, using the far left for passing (then returning to second left), are very good drivers. Even at 75 or 80+. (I’m not talking here about ridiculous 20 year old hotheads with MD plates doing 105 in a Honda Civic.)

The real risks to everyone are the nervous, indecisive, and frenetic drivers going much slower. Plus the hall monitors. Between those two groups you have massive, unpredictable disruptions in traffic; people who can’t merge, can’t facilitate someone else merging; people inciting road rage and intentionally creating obstacles because they don’t like how fast someone is going. Gleefully playing chicken on a highway because you think you’re “right” is incredibly dangerous even at 55mph.

Slow clap to the above.

I'm one of the original PPs and I drive defensively. That means scanning, being predictable and being consistent. The reaction to these bad left lane drivers are that everyone who doesn't agree with them is an aggressive speeder. NO. We are watching you, watching flow, accelerating smoothly to pass, managing others to merge back in, and would appreciate it if you did the same.

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Anonymous wrote:Although I got tailgated yesterday on the Beltway going 10 over... in the right lane, with plenty of space to the left. Tailgaters are just nuts.

Even if someone is parking in the left lane, you're an idiot if you don't leave following distance it's a basic safety measure.

This thread isn’t about tailgaters. It’s about people who don’t follow the universal rules of the road. It’s inconsiderate and dangerous.

Universal rules of the road include proper following distance. The reality of driving is that someone on the road with you is likely to do something stupid today. Parking in the left lane, passing without signaling, cutting you off. How you react determines what kind of driver you are. And if you respond to someone parking in the left lane by tailgating them, you are choosing to exacerbate a situation and make it more dangerous.

Yes, people always seem to want there to be a good guy and a bad guy in every situation, but the truth is that people who hang out in the left lane for miles going the speed limit and people who tailgate on the highway are all morons and they all cause dangerous situations for others as well as needless traffic buildups.

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Anonymous wrote:No one should ever tailgate.

And yet they do. I think they think it encourages people to move out the way when it in fact, encourages the opposite.

What would encourage you to be a considerate driver who follows basic road etiquette?

Anything?

I will change lanes safely and appropriately as I need to to get myself and everyone else where they need to go safely. Do something about your road rage before you cause an accident and someone gets hurt or worse.

Slow the duck down and drive safely.

I don’t have road rage. Or speed excessively.

Just wondering why you feel entitled to not follow road etiquette.

You are speeding. What other rules don't apply to special special you? Stop signs? red lights?

Leave earlier and stop being an agressive menace out on the roads. Every day some one gets killed by unsafe drivers.

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Anonymous wrote:No one should ever tailgate.

And yet they do. I think they think it encourages people to move out the way when it in fact, encourages the opposite.

What would encourage you to be a considerate driver who follows basic road etiquette?

Anything?

I will change lanes safely and appropriately as I need to to get myself and everyone else where they need to go safely. Do something about your road rage before you cause an accident and someone gets hurt or worse.

Slow the duck down and drive safely.

I don’t have road rage. Or speed excessively.

Just wondering why you feel entitled to not follow road etiquette.

You are speeding. What other rules don't apply to special special you? Stop signs? red lights?

Leave earlier and stop being an agressive menace out on the roads. Every day some one gets killed by unsafe drivers.

What would encourage you to be a considerate driver who follows basic road etiquette?

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Anonymous wrote:Although I got tailgated yesterday on the Beltway going 10 over... in the right lane, with plenty of space to the left. Tailgaters are just nuts.

Even if someone is parking in the left lane, you're an idiot if you don't leave following distance it's a basic safety measure.

This thread isn’t about tailgaters. It’s about people who don’t follow the universal rules of the road. It’s inconsiderate and dangerous.

Universal rules of the road include proper following distance. The reality of driving is that someone on the road with you is likely to do something stupid today. Parking in the left lane, passing without signaling, cutting you off. How you react determines what kind of driver you are. And if you respond to someone parking in the left lane by tailgating them, you are choosing to exacerbate a situation and make it more dangerous.

Yes, people always seem to want there to be a good guy and a bad guy in every situation, but the truth is that people who hang out in the left lane for miles going the speed limit and people who tailgate on the highway are all morons and they all cause dangerous situations for others as well as needless traffic buildups.

It's like the people who act as "enforcers" and try to block people who get over at the last second. (First of all, a zipper merge is a thing).

Even if someone is being crappy and passing in the exit lane or whatever, trying to block someone just makes the traffic worse and increases the likelihood you or someone else gets hit. If you're not a traffic cop, don't play enforcer.

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Anonymous wrote:No one should ever tailgate.

And yet they do. I think they think it encourages people to move out the way when it in fact, encourages the opposite.

What would encourage you to be a considerate driver who follows basic road etiquette?

Anything?

I will change lanes safely and appropriately as I need to to get myself and everyone else where they need to go safely. Do something about your road rage before you cause an accident and someone gets hurt or worse.

Slow the duck down and drive safely.

I don’t have road rage. Or speed excessively.

Just wondering why you feel entitled to not follow road etiquette.

We're actually following this thing called traffic LAWS, not some made-up "road etiquette" so you can live out your NASCAR fantasy

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Although I got tailgated yesterday on the Beltway going 10 over... in the right lane, with plenty of space to the left. Tailgaters are just nuts.

Even if someone is parking in the left lane, you're an idiot if you don't leave following distance it's a basic safety measure.

This thread isn’t about tailgaters. It’s about people who don’t follow the universal rules of the road. It’s inconsiderate and dangerous.

Universal rules of the road include proper following distance. The reality of driving is that someone on the road with you is likely to do something stupid today. Parking in the left lane, passing without signaling, cutting you off. How you react determines what kind of driver you are. And if you respond to someone parking in the left lane by tailgating them, you are choosing to exacerbate a situation and make it more dangerous.

Wrong thread. This one is about people who don’t follow rules of the road: stay right, pass left

- not a tailgater

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Although I got tailgated yesterday on the Beltway going 10 over... in the right lane, with plenty of space to the left. Tailgaters are just nuts.

Even if someone is parking in the left lane, you're an idiot if you don't leave following distance it's a basic safety measure.

This thread isn’t about tailgaters. It’s about people who don’t follow the universal rules of the road. It’s inconsiderate and dangerous.

Again, if people in the left lane are already going at or above the speed limit, why are you still angry?

[Anonymous]

Awwww. What's wrong? You did not want to spend your time waiting in line for the exit but those awful other people that were sitting in line wouldn't let you cut in? You poor poor thing.

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Anonymous wrote:No one should ever tailgate.

And yet they do. I think they think it encourages people to move out the way when it in fact, encourages the opposite.

What would encourage you to be a considerate driver who follows basic road etiquette?

Anything?

I will change lanes safely and appropriately as I need to to get myself and everyone else where they need to go safely. Do something about your road rage before you cause an accident and someone gets hurt or worse.

Slow the duck down and drive safely.

I don’t have road rage. Or speed excessively.

Just wondering why you feel entitled to not follow road etiquette.

We're actually following this thing called traffic LAWS, not some made-up "road etiquette" so you can live out your NASCAR fantasy

Considerate drivers do follow road etiquette.

And also the law:

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/thousands-cited-for-slow-left-lane-driving-under-new-law/49121/?amp
“You should only be in the left hand lane when you are passing or overtaking another vehicle,” Virginia State Police First Sgt. Steven Mittendorff said. “Any other time, you should be over to right side of the highway.”

[Anonymous]

People cruising in the left lane at the speed limit are far more dangerous than a person or a line of people passing at 10-15 mph above the speed limit.

There’s no legitimate reason to cruise in the left so move over.

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Anonymous wrote:Although I got tailgated yesterday on the Beltway going 10 over... in the right lane, with plenty of space to the left. Tailgaters are just nuts.

Even if someone is parking in the left lane, you're an idiot if you don't leave following distance it's a basic safety measure.

This thread isn’t about tailgaters. It’s about people who don’t follow the universal rules of the road. It’s inconsiderate and dangerous.

Again, if people in the left lane are already going at or above the speed limit, why are you still angry?

I’m not angry. Just trying to understand why they feel entitled to just stay there and block traffic.

It’s dangerous and even illegal in VA.