Never Pass in the Right Lane

[Tommy2000GT]

I pass in the shoulder all the time because slow drivers love to create a wall and back up traffic behind them.

 

[rh71]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImFbUpk6LMw

Camera car didn't let the Porsche cut in earlier... so the Porsche guy started messing with him. Oops.

 

[SKORPI0]

In some cases, you should totally do it though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5wk9bPgoHM

LOL now THIS wins the thread.

I would have let that SUV pass in front if they only had the courtesy of using their signal. ^_^

 

[Triumph]

Safe driving distance is ~2 seconds behind the vehicle in front of you. .

No, it isn't. Safe driving distance is driving far enough back so that you don't rear end the people in front of you.

 

[LTC8K6]

In some cases, you should totally do it though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5wk9bPgoHM

There's no indication that the car windows were down.

That detail was made up to make the video "funnier", imo.

The SUV driver doesn't signal, and is clearly the "jerk", imo.

 

[Red Squirrel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImFbUpk6LMw

Camera car didn't let the Porsche cut in earlier... so the Porsche guy started messing with him. Oops.

Holy crap, everyone in that video is actually driving like a maniac, where is this? Going to guess Russia. :biggrin:

 

[jad1097]

In Florida you have to pass in the right lane or sit behind slow pokes

 

[zanejohnson]

I recently was forced to pass on the shoulder, and had a cop right there to pull me over!

there's a story to it - following a van with no windows in the back (I cannot see traffic in front of him), following at a safe distance for the speed we were driving, never knew he was approaching a stopped car waiting to make a left-hand turn when he swerved onto the shoulder at the last moment, leaving me ready to plow into the stopped vehicle, or if I slam on my brakes and hopefully stop before whacking that car, I'm rear-ended by the moving van behind me.

And of course the jerk who cause this got away clean, while I was left to deal with the cop.


Good to see the guy in the opening video got what was coming to him!

---------------------hold on right here=========================

so you're telling me, you were coasting along........at a great enough speed that......if somehow something happened to the car in front of you...... like htats it.you base your entire driving off of the car in front of you????

my God.

 

[zanejohnson]

No, it isn't. Safe driving distance is driving far enough back so that you don't rear end the people in front of you.

exfucking zactamento

you drive 1 car length, PER 10MPH behind the person in front of you........so that NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS you have time to brake, and stop, and not collide. (i guess that's FOR NAUGHT, if nobody else does this....

 

[Fayd]

exfucking zactamento

you drive 1 car length, PER 10MPH behind the person in front of you........so that NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS you have time to brake, and stop, and not collide. (i guess that's FOR NAUGHT, if nobody else does this....

hmm...

1 car length... i drive a corolla. new corolla length = 15.25 feet (actually 15.22 or so, but whatever)

70 mph / 10 * 15.25 feet = 106.75 feet?

following 2 second rule:

70 * 5280 / 3600 * 2 = 205.333 feet...

I think the 2 second rule is a lot more realistic. and even then, the rated stopping distance of the new corolla at 70 mph is 200 feet.

basically, your rule of thumb is dumb.

 

[Pardus]

in Russia, car accidents come to you.

 

[Triumph]

hmm...

1 car length... i drive a corolla. new corolla length = 15.25 feet (actually 15.22 or so, but whatever)

70 mph / 10 * 15.25 feet = 106.75 feet?

following 2 second rule:

70 * 5280 / 3600 * 2 = 205.333 feet...

I think the 2 second rule is a lot more realistic. and even then, the rated stopping distance of the new corolla is 200 feet.

basically, your rule of thumb is dumb.

I think you need to go back to driving school. You do understand that time and distance are two different ways of measuring the same thing (safe following distance)? Do you psople not understand that you need to INCREASE the distance between you and the car in front of you as speed increases?

 

[Fayd]

I think you need to go back to driving school. You do understand that time and distance are two different ways of measuring the same thing (safe following distance)? Do you psople not understand that you need to INCREASE the distance between you and the car in front of you as speed increases?

read it again. and think. i know it might be hard for you, but give it a shot.

following the 2 second rule by nature increases the distance between cars as speed increases.

his rule of thumb (1 car length per 10 mph) at 70 mph results in a 'safe following distance' of about half the car's stopping distance. the standard rule of thumb (2 seconds) results in a following distance almost exactly the car's stopping distance. IE, the safe following distance from 2 second rule is about double that from zanejohnson's rule. equivalently, ZJ uses a 'one second rule', which i would consider unsafe.

that said, the 2 second rule is not intended to give you time to stop. it's to give you time to react to whatever the car ahead of you reacts to. So that if the whole traffic column needs to slow to a stop, it can.

 

[ThatsABigOne]

Holy crap, everyone in that video is actually driving like a maniac, where is this? Going to guess Russia. :biggrin:

Look at the plates.... It is not Russia.

 

[Bateluer]

Heh, I wish I could only pass on the left. Too many drivers get in the left lane here and just sputter along at 60mph. I'm not so much as passing them on the right as I am just driving at the posted speed limit.