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I-95 isn’t full of left-turn exits in Maryland. There are a couple, like northbound I-95 to westbound I-495 south of baltimore, and one or two maybe through the city.

When you get further north, they have the rest stops in the center. But I doubt this woman was near a left exit, or the police would not have ticketed her.

There are two big rules I keep telling my kids. First, don’t pass on the right, because that is one of those rules the police love to hit you for. Second, move over if you aren’t following another car already. Let the fast people by on the left, so they don’t have to break the law by passing on the right.

Now, for me, my rule is that if I am in the right lane, I will drive without regard to whether there are cars on the far left going slower. I figure if there’s a lane between us, I’m not really “passing on the right”, I’m just driving in my lane. If there’s a car in the center, I’ll actually move over 2 lanes to pass on the left, and then go back to the right.

And I do sometimes pass on the right, when it is clear that a car won’t move over, especially if a bunch of other cars have already passed on the right.

I like driving on the left because it is the safest lane. You only have to watch people merging from one side, and have a shoulder to bail out. The right lane is almost as good except for the people merging in and swerving through 3 lanes to get to an exit they forgot. The middle lanes creep me out, because people pass me on the left AND on the right, and others will tailgate if you aren’t going fast enough, and people are always swerving into your lane from both sides.

One day, I figured if I got a “reckless driving” ticket for going too fast in the left lane, I would have argued that I was in the left because it was the safest place, and I was driving the same speed as others in the left which was the safest course of action, and that the law is not intended to put my own life in danger.