The fast lane is a privilege, not a right.
Works well in places like Germany. Amazing how fast they can come up on you if you linger too long in the fast lane.
Left lane vigilantes gotta go.
And also the generally inconsiderate jerks.
All states should be as committed to getting slow pacers out of the left lane as they are to speed tickets. Idiots who get in the left lane and pace the cars to the right of them are the cause of at least as many accidents as speeders. It doesn’t matter if you’re doing the speed limit - if you’re not a member of the highway patrol, move to the right and let people who want to go faster get by.
Usually oblivious, cautious drivers or someone on their phone.
How about $25 plus $75 for being on the phone?
Works for me as long as its 3+ lanes
Good grief. We are all guilty of something, lets just codify it so we can collect the penalty fees.
I try to be courteous and only drive in the let lane if I am passing other traffic. There are exceptions, i.e. if the right lane has a pot hole every 50 ft, and the left does not, I’m driving where its smoother. I’ll move right if I see you coming up behind me.
But a law now arbitrarily (in a troopers mind) setting a lower speed limit in the left lane, when many use the left lane to drive anywhere from 10 to 30 over the limit, puts the average driver in a quandary. Whats too fast or too slow when the general traffic is is doing 85 in a 65 or 90 in a 70?
And use the right most lane as well. Many times I see the right lane empty or almost empty.
An acquaintance of mine who teaches Drivers Ed once said that he teaches this about left-lane driving: if the traffic is passing you on your right side, you are in the wrong lane; move to the right when safe to do so.
He didn’t mention that if the drivers on the right are shaking their fists at you or throwing empty soda cans at your car as they go by, you may be in the wrong lane.
The government needs more revenue.
They must forget to teach this in driving class or permit tests. Keep right except to pass, then move back over.
This is one tax increase I’d agree with.
-PJ
The big question is whether SC is one of those idiot states that demand differential speeds for passenger cars and semi trucks. If you try to stay in the right lane, you are constantly having to get into the fast lane to dodge trucks, when keeping to speed limits, rather than simply keeping up with traffic.
So if a driver doesn’t want to break the speed limit LAW...? He/she is breaking this new LAW if he/she doesn’t enable/empower others to break the speed limit LAW?
Go ahead and flame me. 🔥 But this is even stupider than the mask laws.
I know I will get an abundance of justifications and smarmy comments. Are they also going to rigorously enforce the 10 items or less rule at grocery store?
I am all in favor of this. It used to be law here but I think rescinded. But law or not, if several cars are close behind you and the road wide open in front of you, move to the right. It’s just simple courtesy. When I was 16 a high school buddy got pulled over for driving too slow on the freeway. He didn’t get a ticket just an explanation, which was fair considering his age and inexperience as a driver. I’m sure the cop wondered if he was drunk or stoned but no, just young and overly cautious.
Half or better of these slow pokes are wetbacks.
I’ve always wondered if it’s illegal to drive at exactly the speed limit in the left lane.
Good.
Make it at least one point on the record and enough of a fine that it won’t happen again.
Two species of humans I utterly loath and will never condemn *any* punishment of- tailgaters and people who don’t PASS in the passing lane. Both should result in multi-year loss of driving privileges.
Do something about the Somali container transport drivers that run in tandem and take great pleasure in clotting both lanes on I-95.
The companies hiring these types need to be penalized rather than subsidized for adverse diversity.