I love to do exactly the speed limit....

[dawheat]

Originally posted by: ijester
I am not talking about idiots driving 50 in the left lane on the freeway. Or dweebs that can't merge, etc. etc. I am talking about driving through the little residential areas where kids are riding their bikes on 1 foot of shoulder, and there are driveways every 50 feet.

And usually, the car behind me looks like giant george adjusted the headlights also.

I drive as quickly as anyone out there- but absolutely agree with the above. No excuse for driving quickly through a 35mph residential area - the only areas I always follow the speed limit.

On the highway though, don't be a prick even with morons flying by at +25 mph over the speed limit. A good driver pays attention to his rear view mirror - if you see someone closing up on you quickly, unless there's a ton of traffic, it's easy enough to time them and pull right to let them pass. Why put yourself and them at danger by joining them as a moron?

My beef? Slow drivers through mountain roads who don't use fricking turn-outs.

 

[Conky]

I get tailgated all the time... and yet I have never *knock on wood* gotten a speeding ticket. Don't get me wrong... I speed when the time is right, on the highway I will do 90/100 or whatever but driving around town, when the cops are all over the friggin place, and little kids running in the streets, I gots to slow down and laugh while the soccer mom's tailgate me while talking on their cellphones and act like I am taking time out of their day... stupid broads(I'd say a worse word but it would get me a vacation, let's just say bad mommies, lol)

Ain't no agressive driver gonna push me into a ticket... they can fly around me and I can laugh when they get nabbed... didn't they know that cop has spent the last ten years in that spot waiting for you? LOL, doomahs. :laugh:

 

[Vic]

ORS 811.315 Failure of slow driver to drive on right; exceptions; penalty.
(1) A person commits the offense of failure of a slow driver to drive on the right if the person is operating a vehicle upon a roadway at less than the normal speed of traffic at the time and place and under the conditions then existing and the person fails to drive:
(a) In the right-hand lane available for traffic; or
(b) As close as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway.
(2) This section does not apply under any of the following circumstances:
(a) When overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding in the same direction under the rules governing passing in ORS 811.410 to 811.425.
(b) When preparing to turn left at an intersection, alley or private road or driveway.
(3) The offense described in this section, failure of slow driver to drive on the right, is a Class B traffic violation. [1983 c.338 §619; 1995 c.383 §57]

Class B = 2 points license $175 fine

 

[RadioHead84]

Yeah if osmoene is behind me riding my bumper and I am not in a hurry I will slow down to the speed limit or under just to piss them off. But I drive with my headlights on 24.7 ....

 

[Sukhoi]

Originally posted by: Citrix
I so wish the US will make passing on the right illegal.

They first need to enforce laws against slow people driving on the left.

 

[swtethan]

Originally posted by: DainBramaged

Originally posted by: illusion88
Usually I activate the RPG that comes out of my tailpipe. That takes care of the problem.

Too messy. I prefer the oil slick.

you both are old school..... i like the spikes that drop to the ground from my rear bumper

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: ijester
I am not talking about idiots driving 50 in the left lane on the freeway. Or dweebs that can't merge, etc. etc. I am talking about driving through the little residential areas where kids are riding their bikes on 1 foot of shoulder, and there are driveways every 50 feet.

And usually, the car behind me looks like giant george adjusted the headlights also.

If that's the area you are talking about, you should be driving 25MPH!!!

 

[Conky]

I slow down for ALL people who tailgate me. I do not reward aberrant behavior. I simply love making impatient idiots angry... it's not like they will get to the next stoplight any faster but yet they MUST display all that emotion anyway to prove how tough they are behind that wheel. :laugh:

 

[NoToRiOuS1]

Originally posted by: kyparrish
As long as you're not in the left lane, I don't care.

 

[Jeff7181]

In college we rigged up an old windshield washer pump with a bottle of ATF so that when the switch was thrown inside the car, the pump would spray ATF into the intake manifold. I dunno if you've ever heard of running ATF through an engine like that to clean our carbon deposits, but in the process is creates A LOT of white smoke.

 

[Crusty]

Originally posted by: Sukhoi

Originally posted by: Citrix
I so wish the US will make passing on the right illegal.

They first need to enforce laws against slow people driving on the left.

Yes they do. I think the driving tests should be a LOT harder, as well as the penalties for breaking driving laws MUCH harsher.

 

[RadioHead84]

Originally posted by: NoToRiOuS1

Originally posted by: kyparrish
As long as you're not in the left lane, I don't care.

See here is the thing. Ok...I am going 75 in a 65 or maybe 80...and I am deff passing people to the right. Using the left lane for what is it..passing people that are slow on the right...THere are al ot of people on the right and they are obviosly going slower so I want to stay on the left. But the a guy behind me gets RIGHT on my ass...HARDCORE...so he must be going 90 or 94...

Am I wrong..or is he?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Originally posted by: Philippine Mango
deja vu?

:music: 'Cause you know, when you feel, Deja Vu! :music:

 

[OhioState]

i drive the same way home everyday and for 3 miles the limit is 35 this makes people go NUTS so when i look back and i see the jerk passin people left and right i speed up and find another slow car then i slow down right next to him. Roadblock action , then to make it worse ill speed up and get just far enouth ahead so he thinks he can pass . Then i slow down.

After i watch them switch lanes like 4 times i let them go. Its too much fun try it.

 

[pray4mojo]

Originally posted by: ijester
I am not talking about idiots driving 50 in the left lane on the freeway. Or dweebs that can't merge, etc. etc. I am talking about driving through the little residential areas where kids are riding their bikes on 1 foot of shoulder, and there are driveways every 50 feet.

And usually, the car behind me looks like giant george adjusted the headlights also.

i hope you're not going 40-45 in those areas like you say in your OP.

 

[compuwiz1]

I take it you do not live in California. You'd never make it here.

 

[95SS]

Originally posted by: Vic
ORS 811.315 Failure of slow driver to drive on right; exceptions; penalty.
(1) A person commits the offense of failure of a slow driver to drive on the right if the person is operating a vehicle upon a roadway at less than the normal speed of traffic at the time and place and under the conditions then existing and the person fails to drive:
(a) In the right-hand lane available for traffic; or
(b) As close as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway.
(2) This section does not apply under any of the following circumstances:
(a) When overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding in the same direction under the rules governing passing in ORS 811.410 to 811.425.
(b) When preparing to turn left at an intersection, alley or private road or driveway.
(3) The offense described in this section, failure of slow driver to drive on the right, is a Class B traffic violation. [1983 c.338 §619; 1995 c.383 §57]

Class B = 2 points license $175 fine

Maybe one day we'll see this get enforced. Just today I was stuck behind a left lane hog on 26 eastbound just before Sylvan, going 45-50, while traffic flows by at 60 on the right. Think the Beaverton PD sitting on the shoulder with the radar gun even moved? Of course not.

 

[dxkj]

I hate when im in the far left lane, going lets say 70mph, there is traffic going 60-65mph in the center lane, and random traffic in the far right lane... so Im passing a row of slow people, and some jerk behind me goes to the right lane to pass everyone, and i have other people behind me wanting to go 75mph

So as soon as i can I want to get over to the right lane to let those people past me... but then i am held up by cars merging from the right lane into the center lane because they caught up with some really slow traffic (hence the ri ght lane) so then i cant get over and am impeding the people passing in the left like they should...

Or even worse, someone is going 90mph in the right lane and whips into the center lane as I am attempting to get into it, and we almost wreck.





But if I am going 70mph, speed limit 55mph, and im passing 60-65 mph traffic in the center lane, and the center lane is packed so I only have room to get over if i want to immediately slow down, why would I do that to allow the people to go 5mph faster just so i have to slow down.

 

[NiteWulf]

1. Why is passing on the right dangerous? Is it just better to have an understood standard so people don't sideswipe each other trying to get in the same lane?

2. When someone is tailgating me, I flash my brake lights. I can tap the brake just slightly without engaging it but still turn on the light. If they're persistent, I slow down. I've been as low as 10 under

3. I don't drive on the freeway much. When I do I tend to stay out of the left lane. But here's my thing: If I'm doing the speed limit, you have niether reason nor justification for passing me unless it's an emergency.

 

[isekii]

Originally posted by: NiteWulf
1. Why is passing on the right dangerous? Is it just better to have an understood standard so people don't sideswipe each other trying to get in the same lane?

2. When someone is tailgating me, I flash my brake lights. I can tap the brake just slightly without engaging it but still turn on the light. If they're persistent, I slow down. I've been as low as 10 under

3. I don't drive on the freeway much. When I do I tend to stay out of the left lane. But here's my thing: If I'm doing the speed limit, you have niether reason nor justification for passing me unless it's an emergency.

Just because you're going at the rated speed limit doesn't make you right.

How about going with the flow of traffic.

If the flow of traffic is 65-70 and the rated Speed limit is 55, you're basically clogging up 1 whole lane, which then causes problems in the other lanes.

 

[NiteWulf]

Originally posted by: isekii
If the flow of traffic is 65-70 and the rated Speed limit is 55, you're basically clogging up 1 whole lane, which then causes problems in the other lanes.

If people were driving like they are supposed to, this wouldn't be a problem. Mostly I drive on roads that are 5 lanes (2 up, 1 turning, 2 down) rated 40-45, and most people who speed do ~5 over, so it's not really a problem. If I was on the freeway and saw a big stampede behind me, I would most likely get over for everyone's safety.

 

[Syringer]

Originally posted by: ijester
I am not talking about idiots driving 50 in the left lane on the freeway. Or dweebs that can't merge, etc. etc. I am talking about driving through the little residential areas where kids are riding their bikes on 1 foot of shoulder, and there are driveways every 50 feet.

And usually, the car behind me looks like giant george adjusted the headlights also.

What kind of little residential have speed limits of 40mph? Doing 50mph in a residential area with kids around is in itself breaking the law and a ticketable offense.

It's the people that cause and stir up road rage for no reason at all that are dangerous in the road.

 

[dxkj]

Originally posted by: NiteWulf
1. Why is passing on the right dangerous? Is it just better to have an understood standard so people don't sideswipe each other trying to get in the same lane?

1) Fast people + Slow People in slow lane = bad
2) Right lane is typically where traffic merges onto the highway, also slower
3) As you mentioned, left lane and right lane trying to merge into the center lane is disaster waiting to happen


Top 3 I can think of offhand at the end of my shift. I almost never pass in right lane, I do sometimes because asses in the left lane going very slow... but.. meh

 

[loic2003]

When someone's tailgating you, turn your headlights on. They think you've put your brakes on and you can sometimes get people slamming on their brakes whilst you cruise away. It makes me laugh.

 

[talyn00]

Originally posted by: loic2003
When someone's tailgating you, turn your headlights on. They think you've put your brakes on and you can sometimes get people slamming on their brakes whilst you cruise away. It makes me laugh.

how the hell would they confuse your headlights with brake lights?