Posted on 01/25/2024 3:46:33 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
You're on a highway or an expressway, adhering to the maximum permitted speed (that's why you chose this route), then you encounter a noticeably slow vehicle that obstinately occupies the left lane. No indication suggests that the driver is attempting to overtake - they might be satisfying a selfish whim, lacking driving experience, or any other obscure reason. A driver like this forces others to brake, reducing traffic fluidity.
In these instances, impatient and discourteous drivers might flash their lights or even honk their horns, which is inappropriate. A desire to travel at the maximum permissible speed does not justify road aggression, not even possessing a car that can quickly attain such speeds. In some countries, overtaking on the right in such scenarios is permissible, but necessitates slowing down and ensuring the slower vehicle does not decide to change lanes.
Contrarily, in Germany, overtaking on the right is prohibited. But besides adhering to the fundamental rule of driving in the right-hand lane, a 20-second rule applies. Established over 30 years ago through a court verdict, this norm stipulates how long you can traverse the left or middle lane if you're not currently overtaking. Meaning, if it's feasible to stay in the right lane for over 20 seconds, you should utilise it.
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No, absolutely no, literally make sit impossible to not get a ticket from police.
Just enforce the laws around slowing traffic flow as they stand. has anyone ever seen or heard of anyone being ticketed for blocking traffic?
https://www.mwl-law.com/slower-traffic-keep-right-a-summary-of-state-keep-right-traffic-laws/
I learned to drive in Missouri in 1967. The instructors were adamant about passing in the left lane and getting back to the right lane.
My wife learned to drive in California the same year. I think the CA instructors taught her to get to the left lane as soon as you can and stay there, regardless of your speed and traffic flow.
“... impatient and discourteous drivers might flash their lights or even honk their horns, which is inappropriate ...”
Inappropriate? Discourteous? WTAF ...
Flashing headlights to request a slower vehicle to move over is a courtesy that has been around since cars started to have headlights. Of course honking one’s horn at highway speeds is fruitless as the car in front of you probably has their windows up and radio blasting making your honking unheard.
Having a dash cam is a good idea if a left lane bandit (LLB) is encountered. Your recording of a driver’s refusal to move over may be the evidence that gets a ticket for the LLB or jail time should road rage ensue.
It is also illegal to pass on the right in France. An exception would be a traffic circle.
Germans have been flashing their headlights at cars traveling too slowly in the left lane for decades. It means move over to the right lane. No one seems to get road rage from it. At least, they didnt when I drove there. And as I recall there were no speed limits in the left lane. That must have changed.
How long is it permissible to leave your turn signal on after changing lanes?
I learned to drive on 2 lane federal highways. At night there was a light blinking code to pass.
We don’t enforce current law, why create yet another one?
My car has a flash to pass on the light lever. I use it every time when passing on 2 lane roads as a courtesy, a heads up, a safety flash for both the driver I am over taking and myself, as notice that I am coming around. Too many distracted drivers and when passing on 2 lane roads, I do not pass a car slowly when I pull out. I never flash if I am not immediately pulling into the opposite lane.
Nothing wrong with flash to pass on multilane roads either to get a slow car out of the fast lane. It is not discourtesy, it is simply to announce, to get the attention of the inattentive driver in the left lane.
A big difference is in Germany most big roads You exit left and enter right.
People cruising in the right lane block both people entering and leaving the road.
“...has anyone ever seen or heard of anyone being ticketed for blocking traffic?”
High school classmate turned trooper told me this one.
He was heading towards Winchester on Rt. 7 one day and the traffic was slowing up and doing the accordion, and when he got up to the cause it it was a bicyclist all dressed up in his lycra professional bicyclist outfit and he was drifting in and out of the traffic lane and people couldn’t easily pass.
Finally he gets in the left lane lights up on gets to where the bicyclist is and pulls him over. The bicyclist proceeds to demand his rights to the road as he is a bicyclist and the road belongs to him just as much as the other vehicles... etc etc, they argued a bit, the trooper ended with issueing a ticket for impeding traffic and told the jerk that this was his patrol area and he didn’t want to deal with him again. “See you in court I will be there.”
Why is it illegal to pass on the right? What if the car in the left lane is going slower than the speed limit?
The problem here in the US is when you are in the left lane, passing a line of cars in the middle lane, and then some jerk traveling 35 miles over the speed limit comes flying up in back and starts flashing his/her lights while riding your bumper. When I am done passing the cars that I am passing I will get over, but I have no obligation to rapidly squeeze into the traffic in the middle lane that I am passing.
In Mexico, when you come up behind a slower vehicle on a two-lane road, the other driver will often turn on his left blinker. That means either “Go ahead and pass” or “I am about to turn left”. Makes things interesting.
“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?” - George Carlin.
What annoys me is when people who are in the right lane slow down to below the speed limit when there’s an exit coming up and thereby clogging traffic. It’s as if they think they will miss the exit, but there’s little chance of that unless they are effectively asleep.
It does happen, though, I have seen people on the right shoulder driving in reverse trying to back up to a missed exit.
Unmentioned is flashing your lights to warn oncoming traffic of a dangerous condition ahead. Most often the “danger” is a hidden police speed trap.
Worse is drivers in the slow lane who jam on brakes to allow others entering the roadway to merge in.
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