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YACT Rant: The left lane is for passing
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Reckless driving should not be encouraged. This I agree. However, you don't know why people speed. He may be rushing to see his dad one last time. He may be rushing to the hospital to see his baby. Who are you to judge? People speed and they take the risk of being pulled over. Cops will probably not buy their stories and write them a ticket anyway. but who are you trying to play cops?
Driving 90mph could be dangerous. But deliberately blocking him causing more road rage is definitely even more dangerous. Don't you think you are causing even more hazards to the rest of the people driving around you? Heck, I don't even have problems with people driving 65 in the left lane. Just don't try to block the person by accelerating when the fast person is trying to pass. You are not helping the situation but endangering people around you.
nothing's more dangerous than slowing down in the fast lane because the guy behind you is tailgating.... then slowing some more due to more tailgating.... then eventually stopping on the freeway (tailgating guy stopped too) then having the crazy tailgating bastard chase you all over the freeway. Thankfully the scary tailgater eventually ran out of gas.
My friend swears this is true, and his ex-gf stands by the story.
anyways, things are different in different states. Some states don't have passing lanes. Maybe we should include a "passing lane states only" tag to messages so we don't get the same STUPID arguement over and over again.
My friend swears this is true, and his ex-gf stands by the story.
anyways, things are different in different states. Some states don't have passing lanes. Maybe we should include a "passing lane states only" tag to messages so we don't get the same STUPID arguement over and over again.
Although you probably don't realize this, accidents on the freeway happen because of lack of attention (IE: merging into somebody else or cutting someone off), or by large differences in speed. As a poster below mentioned, having to slow down for somebody clogging the fast lane will eventually lead to a section of traffic in that lane to slow down considerably as others pass you on the right.
You are not a traffic control officer.
Finally, for proof of the above statements, take for example the German Autobahn. You have people with rustbuckets that can barely do 130kmh and others with exotic cars that can do 250kmh... all coexisting happily and with remarkably low accident rate on the same 2-3 lane road. Because every body follows the rule that the fast lane is to be used only for high speed traffic, large differences in speed rarely occur, and as such, accidents are reduced.
I constantly find myself switching over to the middle or right lanes to pass cars spread all over the highway doing 120 in a 100, instead of them being in the middle and right lanes doing their 120 and letting the high speed traffic go at their own pace.
Nitemare
Lifer
:music:
Move bitch, get out the way
Get out the way bitch, get out the way
Move bitch, get out the way
Get out the way bitch, get out the way
[Ludacris]
OH NO! The fight's out
I'ma 'bout to punch yo...lights out
Get the FvCK back, guard ya grill
There's somethin' wrong, we can't stay still
I've been drankin' and bustin' two
and I been thankin' of bustin' you
Upside ya motherfvckin' forehead
And if your friends jump in, "Ohhh gurrlll", they'll be mo' dead
Causin' confusion, Disturbin Tha Peace
It's not an illusion, we runnin the streets
So bye-bye to all you groupies and golddiggers
Is there a bumper on your ass? NO NIGG@!
I'm doin' a hundred on the highway
So if you do the speed limit, get the FvCK outta my way
I'm D.U.I., hardly ever caught sober
and you about to get ran the FvCK over:music:
Move bitch, get out the way
Get out the way bitch, get out the way
Move bitch, get out the way
Get out the way bitch, get out the way
[Ludacris]
OH NO! The fight's out
I'ma 'bout to punch yo...lights out
Get the FvCK back, guard ya grill
There's somethin' wrong, we can't stay still
I've been drankin' and bustin' two
and I been thankin' of bustin' you
Upside ya motherfvckin' forehead
And if your friends jump in, "Ohhh gurrlll", they'll be mo' dead
Causin' confusion, Disturbin Tha Peace
It's not an illusion, we runnin the streets
So bye-bye to all you groupies and golddiggers
Is there a bumper on your ass? NO NIGG@!
I'm doin' a hundred on the highway
So if you do the speed limit, get the FvCK outta my way
I'm D.U.I., hardly ever caught sober
and you about to get ran the FvCK over:music:
PeeluckyDuckee
Diamond Member
Some people intentionally stay on the left lane when the right lane beside them has no cars. I'd creep up and stay with them for maybe 15 seconds, then if they still don't move then I pass them on the right. Though some people may stay in left lane in anticipation of a upcoming left turn into a country side road.
People are less and less tolerant of each other and the spaces around them. And that includes me sometimes as well.
People are less and less tolerant of each other and the spaces around them. And that includes me sometimes as well.
dmcowen674
No Lifer
Oh come on, the right lane moves a hell of a lot faster than the left now.
Ive gott an anoterh law that myy drunk ass needs to add to the list:
If im drriving in the right lane at a constant 60, and your b*tch ass is trying to merge, and caant figure out that you ened to slow down to mergge behind me rather than trying to matchc my speed right nedxt to me and merge into me, anad youree luccky enouggh that when i swearrve out of the way and thank the godss that theres not anoterh idiot ddriving in my blindd spot on myy left, thtat I have thte right too beeat the sh*tt out of you when i rurn you offf the road fofr almostts killing me tooday,
i hatte drviving in new yoykr city.. dman.
If im drriving in the right lane at a constant 60, and your b*tch ass is trying to merge, and caant figure out that you ened to slow down to mergge behind me rather than trying to matchc my speed right nedxt to me and merge into me, anad youree luccky enouggh that when i swearrve out of the way and thank the godss that theres not anoterh idiot ddriving in my blindd spot on myy left, thtat I have thte right too beeat the sh*tt out of you when i rurn you offf the road fofr almostts killing me tooday,
i hatte drviving in new yoykr city.. dman.
Zenmervolt
Elite member
You do realise that flashing the lights is the internationally recognised signal that the person behind you wants to pass? That's taught in basic driver's ed. At least it was when I took driver's ed. But the sh!t that passes for driver's ed here in the states is a joke anyway so it's no surprise that you're too ignorant to know any better.
ZV
Hey, WhoTF are you to decide what's too fast? Are you a police officer in a police car...my guess is no.
I hope one day when you are being your normal a$$hat self trying to slow someone down, and they are trying to get a dying person to the hospital or something, and you hold them up just long enough to be too late, you realize that maybe, just maybe, you don't know best.
:roll:
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