As long as you stay in the right lanes you should not have any trouble. Try driving slower than traffic in the left lane and you might as well post a target on your back.
"As long as you stay in the right lanes you should not have any trouble. Try driving slower than traffic in the left lane and you might as well post a target on your back."
You're obviously not in California - people tailgate here relentlessly, no matter what lane it is, driving conditions, traffic congestion, even on surface streets. The worst violators? Yuppie Liberal Maggots with their BMWs and SUVs with Kerry stickers. They're simply more important than YOU, and you have to get out of THEIR way - and they'll flip you off while doing it.
I watch it daily. Someone is doing 90 in the fast lane, Liberal Maggot comes flying up behind them (usually with driver on the phone), the car going 90 can't merge over due to traffic in the right lane (and most times traffic in front), so the Maggot veers over 3 or 4 lanes - without signaling - cutting everyone off, and tailgates the cars in the slow lanes so they can get by - then they cut off 3 or 4 lanes of traffic to get one car length ahead in the fast lane, rinse, repeat.
I've seen elderly women in the slow lanes burst into tears from this behavior. It's out of control and it's literally killing people, I've seen more accidents in the last couple of years that were fatalities from this kind of driving than ever before. Too many Californians have this attitude that NOBODY, and I mean NOBODY is going to be faster than THEM, no matter how unsafe it makes it for everyone else, it's quasi-passive-aggresive Yuppie machismo BS, and it's making it unsafe for us all.
Next worst offenders are the kiddies in their "Fast N' Furious" mobiles, who think a fart can on the exhaust and a off-market set of rim makes them stunt drivers and their cars capable of high speed maneuvering, but that's a whole new thread on it's own.
I drive according to the flow of traffic (and the absence of CHP). If the road's clear, driving conditions are clear, I'll get the 'Stang up in the mid 80's and cruise. But no matter what, no matter where I am, no matter what lane, some sh*thead Yuppie will be on my ass, trying to out-'tude me behind his or her $400 sunglasses, tailgating me or cutting me off to get around someone going 1/2 mile slower than he/she is.
Of course, I have my own tactics that deal with THAT safely and legally, nothing makes my day like making a Liberal Maggot lose it - most of them are cowards, and since I'm neither female or pregnant, the most they'll do is give me the finger or swear at me.