Posted on 12/10/2008 8:53:48 AM PST by Smogger
my question is the following: are we speaking of drivers going under the posted speed limit in the left lane or are we talking drivers doing the speed limit in the left lane?
and lets all remember that the speed limit posted is a max speed limit..it doesn’t mean you have to do that speed....
i know i know i am nitpickin ....there are also laws that ticket you for driving to far under the max posted limit because you cause a hazard...florida used to post the min speed along with the max speed on interstates years ago but got away from doing that for some reason.....
We have the same exerience in the east of France around Mulhouse and north where our friends live. No one in the left lane unless passing.
Texas drivers are terrible, much worse than Kansas.
In Kansas, people move left normally when they see you behind them.
Not in Texas......very discourteous people here.”
You are half right.
In general Texas drivers tend to be more courteous than most. HOWEVER you are right in spades regarding the left-lane-idiots!
The worst is I-35, especially between DFW and Austin.
The state passed a new law about three years ago making it illegal to drive in the left lane on a multi-lane unless you are doing so to pass - fine is something north of $50. However it is almost never enforced.
I wrote TDPS and asked how many citations were issued for the offense. The answer came back, 15,000 after the first couple of years.
Sounds like a lot until you consider that in same time several hundred thousand speeding tickets were issued.
I don’t have documentation, but strongly believe that the majority of accidents in this stretch of I-35 and practically all “road-rage” incidents are directly related to left-lane-blocking behavior.
Would be a great field for a major safety study.
Whatever grandpa! Get off the road. You’re impeding the flow of traffic.
I don’t know what states you folks are from, but it’s extreme arrogance to think that you can dictate the flow of traffic. In California during non rush hour the rule is you BETTER drive about 15-20 mph OVER the speed limit in the left hand lane, and even then you get over if someone comes up behind you hauling butt. Don’t they teach you this stuff in driving school?
Show us one. The left lane is the PASSING lane, and nobody has a "right" to it. I've seen some seriously dumb crap posted on FR, and this just about takes the cake. Muahaha, what an idiotic statement.
Eddie & his State Police chauffer have been observed many times blazing down the PA Turnpike between Hbg & Philly. He's got no room to comment on this situation. Back in the day Moscow had a special traffic lane reserved for party officials. I'm sure Fast Eddy would like to have a system like that. Jon Corzine, too.
No, the Aggies think is an intermittent light that needs fixing.........
It could very well be that way, but the drag could very well cancel out any fuel savings as the engine has to work harder (even though more efficiently) because of increased wind resistance. 15 miles makes a big difference when you’re talking 55 and 70 mph.
Self appointed law officers I call them.
I drive way too much to even care about them.
I just pass em on the right.
If I get the ticket for speeding isn’t that my fault.
Yep. Odd that this is often too complex for some to understand.
Right.
People have the right to do alot of things. But civilized society functions on unwritten rules and common courtesy.
In some jurisdictions, yes. In others, no.
This weekend driving back from Lafayette, there was a convoy of 18-wheelers driving 65-70 in the right lane.
Then someone driving 65-70 gets into the left lane as if to pass the trucks. But doesn't cause they are driving the exact same speed as the trucks.
After 5 miles of me driving on their ass, flashing my high-beams, traffic backed up for 1/2 mile behind us, they finally manage to get ahead of the convoy and I still had to switch to the right lane to pass them.
Finally after me and about a dozen others pass on the right, the idiot moves back over to the right lane.
The thing that kills me anymore are the left lane campers who drive along whille illegally chatting away on a cell phone, utterly oblivious to the traffic jam they create behind them.
As for tailgating, the only time I do it is when there is a big line of cars because of an accident or something and guess what happens. There are always a bunch of people who (despite the line going well beyond any warning signs) decide to pull up on the right or left, whatever lane does not have the line......in order to insert themselves ahead of many other people in the line. They literally just jerk themselves over into the line like they own the joint.
Extremely rude.
In those cases, I do tailgate. There is no way I will let those jerks in, and it really makes me angry when “nice” people choose to let them in, thereby encouraging their poor manners.
You wait your turn, but since people typically let them cut in line speeding by you to the right or left to try to cut over......they keep doing it.
Why don’t people stand up and say enough??? I won’t let you try to cut!
The poster is probably a left lane bandit herself. ;)
LOL!
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