i'm in the middle lane doing the limit. are you mad at me?

[spidey07]

On a 3 lane highway the middle lane is where you are supposed to be regardless if you are passing or not. This leaves the left lane for passing and the right lane for merging/exiting traffic. I'm not mad at you, I'm impressed you know how to drive properly.

 

[PrinceofWands]

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
If you're not going 60+ in the middle lane, you're going too slow.

You'd be in prison for doing that around here (from so many tickets). They WILL pull you over for 5 over here.

My answer is obviously, you're fine. As long as you are going the speed limit (or within a couple mph) the only lane you shouldn't be in is the left-most (which is for passing only).

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: Jack Ryan

Originally posted by: SP33Demon
You're fine, fck the haters. People are such whining btches nowadays that getting somewhere 1 minute later (but safer) will give them a reason to kill someone. It's the typical entitlement problem with a lot of the younger, spoiled, non-time managing fcktards that oozes out onto our highways and kills people with their recklessness.

Wow, so much to say but would be wasted on you. You speak of entitlement but then camp in a lane thinking other people should adjust... Won't event waste my time.

i thought his username was ironic as well.

 

[cronos]

Originally posted by: drum
Right lane = speed limit and below
middle = 5 to 10 over
left = however ballsy you feel

do you know what the word 'speed limit' means?

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Originally posted by: SP33Demon

Originally posted by: Jack Ryan

Originally posted by: SP33Demon
You're fine, fck the haters. People are such whining btches nowadays that getting somewhere 1 minute later (but safer) will give them a reason to kill someone. It's the typical entitlement problem with a lot of the younger, spoiled, non-time managing fcktards that oozes out onto our highways and kills people with their recklessness.

Wow, so much to say but would be wasted on you. You speak of entitlement but then camp in a lane thinking other people should adjust... Won't event waste my time.

You have a lot to say because you're illiterate and probably one of the douchebags with an entitlement problem. No laws are broken by driving 55 in the middle lane and it's a free country. The problem lies with maggots whose parents failed to teach them respect for others.

1) You are personally attacking another forum member for disagreeing with you
2) Your grammar is awful
3) Matching traffic speed is not reckless, blocking a lane because you want to drive at exactly 55mph is
4) You're a hypocrite - you talk about entitlement, then say "it's a free country I can do what I want", by doing so you are showing a lack of consideration for others and an entitlement mentality :roll:
5) You don't know the traffic laws as well as you think you do
6) Do you even have kids?

These points are not up for debate. I don't feel like feeding the trolls today.

7) Motion for ban

PB

 

[SP33Demon]

Originally posted by: manowar821
Two things... One, you're fine, really. As long as you're not creating a flying wedge, and you're going the limit or higher.

Second, it's not a goddamn unsafe thing to drive faster than the posted speed limit. I'm looking at you, SP33Demon.

All in all, if I can pass you on the left, we're cool. OR if I can't but you move over for me, that's EXTRA cool and I'll smile+wave at you.

First, I'm glad that you agree that people going the speed limit are fine (middle lane). I go 5-10mph over but the maggots who are recklessly weaving and going 25 over are the problem... last, nowhere did I state that I personally only drive the speed limit - read.

 

[Phoenix86]

Originally posted by: BlahBlahYouToo
3 lanes, 55 mph limit.
will you be mad at me if you are behind me?

lets assume there's decent volume but flowing well. you may have to wait out a few cars to pass on the left due to the volume.

edit: right lane is even more packed with entering/exiting traffic, going at 55 mph or slightly slower.

Sounds like you are following the flow of traffic. Faster to your left, slower to the right.

I have no problem with this.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
As long as I can pass you on the left, no biggie.

This.

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: cronos

Originally posted by: drum
Right lane = speed limit and below
middle = 5 to 10 over
left = however ballsy you feel

do you know what the word 'speed limit' means?

thats two words...




every time i read these threads i keep flashing back to my motorcycle safety course i took with my mom. yes, my mom rides as well, a sportster trike. the instructor asked the whole class which lane was the safest to ride in on the freeway, and when i told him the middle he pretty much giggled and told me no. the left lane is the "safest" for motorcycles to ride in statistically, so they recommend staying there. ive always remembered that, but i still ride the middle lane so i dont have to deal with people entering/ exiting the freeway on the right and people wanting to pass me on the left. here in az if youre doing 70 in a 65 youre going too slow and being passed regularly.

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

Originally posted by: Safeway
Oh, you are actually doing 55? In Texas, 55 means 65.

If the limit was 70 and you were doing 70, that's fine. 55 is too slow.

i do the limit and 55 was just my example.
if it was 65, i'd be going 65.

 

[Phoenix86]

Originally posted by: SP33Demon
No laws are broken by driving 55 in the middle lane and it's a free country.

http://www.mit.edu/~jfc/right.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passing_lane

It is also illegal in many states in the U.S. to use the "far left" or passing lane on a major highway as a travelling lane (as opposed to passing), or to fail to yield to faster moving traffic that is attempting to overtake in that lane.

Almost every state (those w/o are exceptions) have laws either prohibiting slow driving in the left lane or simply say you must be passing people on the right to be in that lane.

In VA (state in your profile) the law says: 46.2-842.1 requires vehicles in the left lane to yield to faster traffic; State Police say this applies even when faster traffic is speeding.

So yeah, it's not legal in most cases.

Your freedom comment is laughable at best.

 

[protocol167]

Originally posted by: Kelemvor
The general rule (and law in some states) is SLOWER traffic keep right. It doesn't say People going under the speed limit stay right, it's SLOWER.

Definition of Slower is going at less speed than those around you. It doesn't matter if you are going 10 over the speed limit. If everyone else is going 15 over, you are going SLOWER so move your ass to he right.

If you then need to pass someone, go around them and get back to the right.

I drive the speed limit all the time and I always stay in the right lane. It's required and it's courteous.

+1 :thumbsup:

 

[SP33Demon]

Originally posted by: PlasmaBomb

Originally posted by: SP33Demon

Originally posted by: Jack Ryan

Originally posted by: SP33Demon
You're fine, fck the haters. People are such whining btches nowadays that getting somewhere 1 minute later (but safer) will give them a reason to kill someone. It's the typical entitlement problem with a lot of the younger, spoiled, non-time managing fcktards that oozes out onto our highways and kills people with their recklessness.

Wow, so much to say but would be wasted on you. You speak of entitlement but then camp in a lane thinking other people should adjust... Won't event waste my time.

You have a lot to say because you're illiterate and probably one of the douchebags with an entitlement problem. No laws are broken by driving 55 in the middle lane and it's a free country. The problem lies with maggots whose parents failed to teach them respect for others.

1) You are personally attacking another forum member for disagreeing with you
2) Your grammar is awful
3) Matching traffic speed is not reckless, blocking a lane because you want to drive at exactly 55mph is
4) You're a hypocrite - you talk about entitlement, then say "it's a free country I can do what I want", by doing so you are showing a lack of consideration for others and an entitlement mentality :roll:
5) You don't know the traffic laws as well as you think you do
6) Do you even have kids?

These points are not up for debate. I don't feel like feeding the trolls today.

7) Motion for ban

PB

1) If a person cannot read, they are illiterate and I call a spade a spade.
2) Attacking my grammar and then critisizing me for attacking another member = hypocrisy. My grammar is fine, you're the first person in 12,372 posts to have a problem with it. Take the stick out.
3) Going 80 in a 55 is most certainly reckless, ask any state trooper or try it yourself.
4) If grandpa can only proficiently operate a motor vehicle at 55mph then he has the right to do so regardless of how "considerate" you may view him to be.
5) Be more specific. What exactly did I say that a state trooper would disagree with? Put up or shut up.
6) See #2.
7) "Motion for ban" = The argument of a self entitled mental midget who hides behind ad hom attacks ("Do you even have kids?") when he has no argument.

Of course you don't want your points up for debate, because you would get.smacked.down.again.

 

[SP33Demon]

Originally posted by: Phoenix86

Originally posted by: SP33Demon
No laws are broken by driving 55 in the middle lane and it's a free country.

http://www.mit.edu/~jfc/right.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passing_lane

It is also illegal in many states in the U.S. to use the "far left" or passing lane on a major highway as a travelling lane (as opposed to passing), or to fail to yield to faster moving traffic that is attempting to overtake in that lane.

Almost every state (those w/o are exceptions) have laws either prohibiting slow driving in the left lane or simply say you must be passing people on the right to be in that lane.

In VA (state in your profile) the law says: "46.2-842.1 requires vehicles in the left lane to yield to faster traffic; State Police say this applies even when faster traffic is speeding."

So yeah, it's not legal in most cases.

Your freedom comment is laughable at best.

I never suggested blocking the left lane, are you illiterate as well? I'm well aware that blocking the LEFT LANE is illegal, wow. MIDDLE LANE. You even quoted it.

 

[cronos]

Originally posted by: hanoverphist

Originally posted by: cronos

Originally posted by: drum
Right lane = speed limit and below
middle = 5 to 10 over
left = however ballsy you feel

do you know what the word 'speed limit' means?

thats two words...

damn it :|

 

[TechBoyJK]

Originally posted by: SP33Demon

Originally posted by: PlasmaBomb

Originally posted by: SP33Demon

Originally posted by: Jack Ryan

Originally posted by: SP33Demon
You're fine, fck the haters. People are such whining btches nowadays that getting somewhere 1 minute later (but safer) will give them a reason to kill someone. It's the typical entitlement problem with a lot of the younger, spoiled, non-time managing fcktards that oozes out onto our highways and kills people with their recklessness.

Wow, so much to say but would be wasted on you. You speak of entitlement but then camp in a lane thinking other people should adjust... Won't event waste my time.

You have a lot to say because you're illiterate and probably one of the douchebags with an entitlement problem. No laws are broken by driving 55 in the middle lane and it's a free country. The problem lies with maggots whose parents failed to teach them respect for others.

1) You are personally attacking another forum member for disagreeing with you
2) Your grammar is awful
3) Matching traffic speed is not reckless, blocking a lane because you want to drive at exactly 55mph is
4) You're a hypocrite - you talk about entitlement, then say "it's a free country I can do what I want", by doing so you are showing a lack of consideration for others and an entitlement mentality :roll:
5) You don't know the traffic laws as well as you think you do
6) Do you even have kids?

These points are not up for debate. I don't feel like feeding the trolls today.

7) Motion for ban

PB

1) If a person cannot read, they are illiterate and I call a spade a spade.
2) Attacking my grammar and then critisizing me for attacking another member = hypocrisy. My grammar is fine, you're the first person in 12,372 posts to have a problem with it. Take the stick out.
3) Going 80 in a 55 is most certainly reckless, ask any state trooper or try it yourself.
4) If grandpa can only proficiently operate a motor vehicle at 55mph then he has the right to do so regardless of how "considerate" you may view him to be.
5) Be more specific. What exactly did I say that a state trooper would disagree with? Put up or shut up.
6) See #2.
7) "Motion for ban" = The argument of a self entitled mental midget who hides behind ad hom attacks ("Do you even have kids?") when he has no argument.

Of course you don't want your points up for debate, because you would get.smacked.down.again.

(assuming speed limit is 55)

as long as grandpa isn't doing 55 in the far left lane and staying there, he's fine. Otherwise, just camping doing 55 in teh far left lane is illegal even though he is "doing the speed limit" (in most states, including my state).

However, I'm not attacking that freedom statement because you said "middle lane" so i think you're aware of the difference between left lane camping and cruising in the middle lane.

 

[Phoenix86]

Originally posted by: SP33Demon

Originally posted by: Phoenix86

Originally posted by: SP33Demon
No laws are broken by driving 55 in the middle lane and it's a free country.

http://www.mit.edu/~jfc/right.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passing_lane

It is also illegal in many states in the U.S. to use the "far left" or passing lane on a major highway as a travelling lane (as opposed to passing), or to fail to yield to faster moving traffic that is attempting to overtake in that lane.

Almost every state (those w/o are exceptions) have laws either prohibiting slow driving in the left lane or simply say you must be passing people on the right to be in that lane.

In VA (state in your profile) the law says: "46.2-842.1 requires vehicles in the left lane to yield to faster traffic; State Police say this applies even when faster traffic is speeding."

So yeah, it's not legal in most cases.

Your freedom comment is laughable at best.

I never suggested blocking the left lane, are you illiterate as well? I'm well aware that blocking the LEFT LANE is illegal, wow. MIDDLE LANE. You even quoted it.

Sorry didn't feel like quoting 2 different posts...

Tell that to a cop when the guy was going the speed limit in the middle lane and you're caught doing 85 in the left lane.

Read the two bolded sections carefully.

 

[SP33Demon]

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK

Originally posted by: SP33Demon

Originally posted by: PlasmaBomb

Originally posted by: SP33Demon

Originally posted by: Jack Ryan

Originally posted by: SP33Demon
You're fine, fck the haters. People are such whining btches nowadays that getting somewhere 1 minute later (but safer) will give them a reason to kill someone. It's the typical entitlement problem with a lot of the younger, spoiled, non-time managing fcktards that oozes out onto our highways and kills people with their recklessness.

Wow, so much to say but would be wasted on you. You speak of entitlement but then camp in a lane thinking other people should adjust... Won't event waste my time.

You have a lot to say because you're illiterate and probably one of the douchebags with an entitlement problem. No laws are broken by driving 55 in the middle lane and it's a free country. The problem lies with maggots whose parents failed to teach them respect for others.

1) You are personally attacking another forum member for disagreeing with you
2) Your grammar is awful
3) Matching traffic speed is not reckless, blocking a lane because you want to drive at exactly 55mph is
4) You're a hypocrite - you talk about entitlement, then say "it's a free country I can do what I want", by doing so you are showing a lack of consideration for others and an entitlement mentality :roll:
5) You don't know the traffic laws as well as you think you do
6) Do you even have kids?

These points are not up for debate. I don't feel like feeding the trolls today.

7) Motion for ban

PB

1) If a person cannot read, they are illiterate and I call a spade a spade.
2) Attacking my grammar and then critisizing me for attacking another member = hypocrisy. My grammar is fine, you're the first person in 12,372 posts to have a problem with it. Take the stick out.
3) Going 80 in a 55 is most certainly reckless, ask any state trooper or try it yourself.
4) If grandpa can only proficiently operate a motor vehicle at 55mph then he has the right to do so regardless of how "considerate" you may view him to be.
5) Be more specific. What exactly did I say that a state trooper would disagree with? Put up or shut up.
6) See #2.
7) "Motion for ban" = The argument of a self entitled mental midget who hides behind ad hom attacks ("Do you even have kids?") when he has no argument.

Of course you don't want your points up for debate, because you would get.smacked.down.again.

(assuming speed limit is 55)

as long as grandpa isn't doing 55 in the far left lane and staying there, he's fine. Otherwise, just camping doing 55 in teh far left lane is illegal even though he is "doing the speed limit" (in most states, including my state).

However, I'm not attacking that freedom statement because you said "middle lane" so i think you're aware of the difference between left lane camping and cruising in the middle lane.

Yep, I'm in total agreement. If grandpa's in the left lane, then we have a problem! Free country, yes I meant he's allowed to drive however he wants as long as it's legal.

 

[SP33Demon]

Originally posted by: Phoenix86

Originally posted by: SP33Demon

Originally posted by: Phoenix86

Originally posted by: SP33Demon
No laws are broken by driving 55 in the middle lane and it's a free country.

http://www.mit.edu/~jfc/right.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passing_lane

It is also illegal in many states in the U.S. to use the "far left" or passing lane on a major highway as a travelling lane (as opposed to passing), or to fail to yield to faster moving traffic that is attempting to overtake in that lane.

Almost every state (those w/o are exceptions) have laws either prohibiting slow driving in the left lane or simply say you must be passing people on the right to be in that lane.

In VA (state in your profile) the law says: "46.2-842.1 requires vehicles in the left lane to yield to faster traffic; State Police say this applies even when faster traffic is speeding."

So yeah, it's not legal in most cases.

Your freedom comment is laughable at best.

I never suggested blocking the left lane, are you illiterate as well? I'm well aware that blocking the LEFT LANE is illegal, wow. MIDDLE LANE. You even quoted it.

Sorry didn't feel like quoting 2 different posts...

Tell that to a cop when the guy was going the speed limit in the middle lane and you're caught doing 85 in the left lane.

Read the two bolded sections carefully.

Ok thanks for the clarification. Considering that I live in VA and drive on some of the fastest roads here, I would be willing to bet that a trooper would not let that excuse fly because there is no way to prove that everyone around you was doing 90mph. It wouldn't hold up in court, his radar gun (and your reckless driving ticket) will. I'm sure the interpretation of that law was meant for people who are going 10 over which is the normal flow. I'll occasionally observe someone going 55 in the middle lane but I don't care because they're allowed to and I just pass them on the left.

 

[SunSamurai]

If you're not passing, move to the right. If you're getting passed on both sides, you're a dipshit and you'll get pulled over by the cops, wither you're doing the speed limit or not. Have a fucking brain, dont obstruct traffic. Slow people cause more accidents on the highway that fast drivers.

 

[summit]

Originally posted by: SunSamurai
If you're not passing, move to the right. If you're getting passed on both sides, you're a dipshit and you'll get pulled over by the cops, wither you're doing the speed limit or not. Have a fucking brain, dont obstruct traffic. Slow people cause more accidents on the highway that fast drivers.

ok tough guy.

 

[Safeway]

This thread is identical to the cycling thread, just with slow cars instead of slow bikes.

Win.

 

[middlehead]

In a 55mph 3-lane area, I'm usually doing 60 in the middle lane. And that's just keeping up with the other people in the middle lane.

I will not drive in the right lane on a 3 lane if I can avoid it, that's for merging in and out.

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Originally posted by: SP33Demon

Originally posted by: PlasmaBomb

Originally posted by: SP33Demon

Originally posted by: Jack Ryan

Originally posted by: SP33Demon
You're fine, fck the haters. People are such whining btches nowadays that getting somewhere 1 minute later (but safer) will give them a reason to kill someone. It's the typical entitlement problem with a lot of the younger, spoiled, non-time managing fcktards that oozes out onto our highways and kills people with their recklessness.

Wow, so much to say but would be wasted on you. You speak of entitlement but then camp in a lane thinking other people should adjust... Won't event waste my time.

You have a lot to say because you're illiterate and probably one of the douchebags with an entitlement problem. No laws are broken by driving 55 in the middle lane and it's a free country. The problem lies with maggots whose parents failed to teach them respect for others.

1) You are personally attacking another forum member for disagreeing with you
2) Your grammar is awful
3) Matching traffic speed is not reckless, blocking a lane because you want to drive at exactly 55mph is
4) You're a hypocrite - you talk about entitlement, then say "it's a free country I can do what I want", by doing so you are showing a lack of consideration for others and an entitlement mentality :roll:
5) You don't know the traffic laws as well as you think you do
6) Do you even have kids?

These points are not up for debate. I don't feel like feeding the trolls today.

PB

1) If a person cannot read, they are illiterate and I call a spade a spade.
2) Attacking my grammar and then critisizing me for attacking another member = hypocrisy. My grammar is fine, you're the first person in 12,372 posts to have a problem with it. Take the stick out.
3) Going 80 in a 55 is most certainly reckless, ask any state trooper or try it yourself.
4) If grandpa can only proficiently operate a motor vehicle at 55mph then he has the right to do so regardless of how "considerate" you may view him to be.
5) Be more specific. What exactly did I say that a state trooper would disagree with? Put up or shut up.
6) See #2.
7) "Motion for ban" = The argument of a self entitled mental midget who hides behind ad hom attacks ("Do you even have kids?") when he has no argument.

Of course you don't want your points up for debate, because you would get.smacked.down.again.

I guess you weren't trolling -

1) I think I got the wrong end of the stick... so appologies

2) Your grammar looks fine looking over it again. The spelling mistakes are obviously deliberate... don't know what I was thinking

Apologies again.

3) Yeah because troopers never drive at 85 mph, nor do the majority of the public. There are times when speeding is reckless and times when it is not. Speed is not a factor in the majority of fatal accidents (at least not here). There are worse things you can do was the point, and driving below the prevailing traffic speed is not without risk!

4) You are forgetting that driving is a privilege and not a right. Far to many, as you would put it, "maggots" think it is their right to do what ever they want while in a car...

5) Cultural difference... most of our roads have a normal and an overtaking lane. Came from being annoyed at being stuck behind someone driving at 40 mph in the overtaking lane on the way home and I was about the 8th car in the queue. The lights are fairly well timed, so if you drive at 40 you miss them all. That adds more than 1 minute over the journey. Here three lanes = motorway (interstate), lane discipline on them is also awful

6) Is a question, not an attack...
Your statement had nothing to back it up either in your own words "put up or shut up". You can't blame all the problems of today on parents, especially if they weren't the ones that taught the fucktards to drive... From what I have heard the licence test in some states is laughable... maybe the finger should be pointed in that direction?

7) Withdrawn. Don't post in driving threads while pissed off by other drivers and tired. Lesson learnt.

 

[Insomniator]

In jersey, if you are going 55 on any lane of the parkway even where its marked 55 instead of 65 you are going to be passed by every single other driver on the road.

The flow of traffic is constantly 75-85 in the left and middle lanes with troopers usually still tailgating people to get by, not pulling them over. Though of course you will get ticketed on occasion for going 85.

So yeah, if you are going 55 in the middle lane you would be quite a danger on the road. If you are in the right lane fine go 55 but you're still gonna be tailgated and passed quite often.