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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It depends.  On a highway or freeway, the general rule is that the left lane is for passing.  But (1) sometimes the traffic in the right lane is going even slower, or (2) sometimes a driver in the left lane can't easily merge back into the right lane (being tailgated by an aggressive driver can actually make this harder), or (3) sometimes the traffic is just generally heavy and so people try to spread out across all three lanes, or (4) sometimes the driver has a left exit coming up.  And sometimes people aren't paying a ton of attention, or they don't think that people should be driving over the limit, or it's some control thing, or whatever.  But I think that (1)-(3) explain a lot of the people hanging out in the left lane.

Also, while the left lane is a passing lane, it is still subject to the same speed limit.  I don't have a lot of sympathy for people who are irritated just because they can't go 15 or 20 miles over the limit.  I try to stay out of their way, of course (while hoping that they get pulled over and ticketed for reckless driving), but that's also very dangerous driving.  You don't actually have the right to go 80 in a 55.  I have no idea if there is any difference in how often Americans speed v. other countries, but there are a lot of people who get annoyed that the left lane isn't open for them to drive at unsafe speeds.  [/quote]

Stay out of the left lane, a-hole. 
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