In many places it is CLEARLY POSTED that the left lane is for passing only. Maybe not where you drive, but it sure is in my neck of the woods. People who sit in the left lane "doing the speed limit" clogging up traffic need to understand they are usually making traffic situations WORSE by creating larger groups of vehicles instead of spread out more. It's as though said left lane sitter takes the mentality that it's him vs the guy behind who wants to go faster, and the sitter feel righteous in holding his lane because he is "doing speed limit or 1 mph under." It's not. Respect the road, and GET OVER. Because soon enough, it will be 2..3..4..5..6..7 cars behind his"righteous" caboose. Which is, in and of itself, more selfish than "the impatient one(s)" behind the sitter. I was taught in my driver ed that absolutely you could be ticketed for impeding the flow of traffic if you were only going the speed limit, while everyone else was going faster.Liberty wrote:I don't believe this is true at all. Why would they have so many exits on the left-hand side? The speed limits aren't a suggestion they are the law. Doing the speed limit helps control the speeds to the limits that are required by law. Isn't it our duty not only to obey the laws, but to encourage others to obey the laws also?Soccerdad1995 wrote:Any speed deferential that allows one to pass. It is an offense to impede trafic. I don't care if you are doing the posted speed. If I come up behind you going faster....you need to get over.
The non-enforcement of this is one of my pet peeves. The left lane is for passing only. If you are in the left lane with no one in front of you and you are going at the same speed as the traffic to your right then you are in the wrong lane. It doesn't matter if you are going 180 mph. The left lane is a passing lane. Period.
Yeah, maybe I'm trolling a little bit here, but the truth is there isn't enough road in many cases to handle all the traffic in a single lane. If you are getting impatient because of the guy doing the speed limit in the left-hand lane, maybe you're wanting to drive too fast. If you tell the officer and later on the judge that the posted speed limit was just a suggestion it's not going to go over too well. slow down relax, people are getting too impatient. Maybe leave for your destination a little earlier, and save up that pent up rage for one of those elitst leftist in Washington.
*rant off*