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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2022/09/29/maryland-move-over-law/

Am I the only one concerned about the safety of a whole lane of traffic trying to merge over on short notice on our busy highways...for every car that is left on the shoulder?[/quote]
This law has been in place for years for emergency vehicles and tow trucks on the shoulder. You don’t have to move over, but if you don’t/can’t, you need to slow way down.[/quote]

And what is the precise legal definition of “way down?”  Suppose the cop’s “way down” is slower than yours.

Move over laws are absolutely asinine and unbelievably dangerous. Cars swerving all over the road at speed, first because a cop (who could have picked a different place to pull somebody over) is on the shoulder, and now for any Tom, Dick or Harry who has his “magic flashers” on.

Negligent driving is already unlawful. Speed greater than reasonable and prudent under prevailing conditions is already unlawful.

This is just more dreamland, control freak nonsense. [/quote]

I would guess that at least 70% of drivers on Maryland roads are unaware of the existing law based on daily travel on highways observing people who neither slow nor move over when there are emergency vehicles on the shoulder with lights flashing. I can recall several occasions when I came upon a stopped emergency vehicle, could not change lanes, and slowed to a speed of about 40 on a highway, only to have the driver behind me ride up on my tail, honk at me, and then follow me while honking and yelling. I felt more unsafe than the drivers on the shoulder.

I can't imagine that anyone gets a ticket for violating this law. Very few people follow it.[/quote]

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