Wrong. You can’t legally be impeding traffic if you’re going the maximum allowable speed.
You ARE impeding trafic regardless of your speed, if there are people behind you. In Cal, if there are more than five cars behind you. Your speed is a different question altogether.
Wrong!
Also, it doesn't metter what the relative speeds are, the left lane is for passing. It is not a travel lane, it is for passing only.
regardless of speed, anyone who rides the left lane when not passing is a jerk.
I'm sure that will be of considerable comfort when someone runs you off the road for being inconsiderate.
Don’t even try arguing on this topic. It’s amazing how so called “conservatives” love the letter of the law until it comes to them speeding.
I don’t understand what’s so hard to understand about “speed limit”. This whole “impeding the flow of traffic” garbage is exactly that, garbage. It sounds eerily familiar to “will of the people” (Obama’s citizenship) and “for the children” (pretty much everything else) comments of the left. An excuse to ignore laws and do whatever you want.
The speed limit is the MAXIMUM speed at which you can drive. The logic on this board is that if enough people break the law, then speed limits no longer matter. I guess everyone here is cool with illegal immigration, too?
>>You can’t legally be impeding traffic if you’re going the maximum allowable speed. Actually, yes you can. I’ve seen bottlenecks caused by traffic nanny’s in the passing lane. Many here do not understand how speed limits actually work. Here in Seattle it is common to be going 65 (and sometimes more) with the flow of traffic and one of those cars is a State Patrolman.
Traffic flow is king. If you are impeding it (or any driver for that matter) via your speed in the passing lane, you are violating the law in many states.
And speed is not even the issue. Maybe this is easier for us black and white thinkers to understand. When a law discusses one driver impeding another, it is all about relative speed. Actual speed does not even enter into the equation.
You said — “Wrong. You can’t legally be impeding traffic if you’re going the maximum allowable speed.”
Well, traffic laws are made state to state. And in Oregon, you can be ticketed if you are going the speed limit, in the left lane, and there is a car right behind you (and you will be, if a trooper comes up and sees you doing it).
I know that the law exists in Oregon, I know you will get ticketed and I know that it’s done by troopers, because I’ve seen them pull over people at the head of a line of cars.
I remember one time there were several cars behind one care going the speed limit in the left lane with the two other lanes (to the right) filled with cars. The state trooper came up from behind and turned on his lights and about four cars pulled over in that left lane. He left them all alone. When he got to the “head” car (who was going the speed limit and hanging in the left lane), he pulled that one over to the side of the road.
Traffic cleared after the trooper did that and the flow of traffic continued unimpeded.
You see, it’s not necessarily the fact that someone is speeding slightly that is a problem, it’s what happens when cars get all bunched up in one spot and they can’t get around. Some people start taking chances and pulling in front of other people trying to wind their way up front and they cause accidents. So, that’s why the law is there, in Oregon.
It is enforced...
That's exactly the type of "sea lawyer" attitude that gets you in trouble in the real world, where there's often a yawning gap between what's "legal" and what's right or wrong.