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[PhotoDu.de]

Originally Posted by yarrr

wow all caps, you're wrong. the speed limit is a SPEED LIMIT(or do you need more signs on the side of the road to illustrate)

A cop can give you a ticket for going 56 in a 55, so your whole chart is retarded.

Just because you are going the speed limit doesn't mean you should block the passing lane. If people want to speed let them, it's not your problem. Let them pass so they don't have to repeatedly change lanes making the situation even more dangerous. Don't make it worse.

[yarrr]

Originally Posted by PhotoDu.de

Just because you are going the speed limit doesn't mean you should block the passing lane. If people want to speed let them, it's not your problem. Let them pass so they don't have to repeatedly change lanes making the situation even more dangerous. Don't make it worse.

I agree with you for the most part, and I do get out of the way of speeders most of the time but here is the problem. If I'm driving 65 on the freeway in the fast lane, the maximum speed allowed, how am I blocking anyone from passing? I can't believe the general tone of this topic vilifying a person for getting in the way of someone breaking the law. This isn't the autobahn, you don't have a right to drive 80, and there is no law that requires anybody to get out of your way if you choose to break the law. Hit somebody that was "in the passing lane" driving 65 while the middle was going the same and see what your insurance says.

And if the freeway is already starting to get congested, I'm doing 65 in #1, #2 is putting at 55-60, I refuse to further congest the right lanes AND slow myself down, just to let someone speed up to the bumper of the person that was in front of me.

The first thing I do if traffic is building up and the fast lane gets down below 40 is get in the fast lane and put 200 feet between me and the next person. Within 1 minute the 5 closest cars around me all begin to do the same thing as they realize I am braking and accelerating about 5% as much as them, and staying within 50 feet. The moment of sanity will spread both forwards and backwards through traffic.

[krolos]

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[kustom play]

Originally Posted by yarrr

I agree with you for the most part, and I do get out of the way of speeders most of the time but here is the problem. If I'm driving 65 on the freeway in the fast lane, the maximum speed allowed, how am I blocking anyone from passing? I can't believe the general tone of this topic vilifying a person for getting in the way of someone breaking the law. This isn't the autobahn, you don't have a right to drive 80, and there is no law that requires anybody to get out of your way if you choose to break the law. Hit somebody that was "in the passing lane" driving 65 while the middle was going the same and see what your insurance says.

And if the freeway is already starting to get congested, I'm doing 65 in #1, #2 is putting at 55-60, I refuse to further congest the right lanes AND slow myself down, just to let someone speed up to the bumper of the person that was in front of me.

The first thing I do if traffic is building up and the fast lane gets down below 40 is get in the fast lane and put 200 feet between me and the next person. Within 1 minute the 5 closest cars around me all begin to do the same thing as they realize I am braking and accelerating about 5% as much as them, and staying within 50 feet. The moment of sanity will spread both forwards and backwards through traffic.

if there is a faster car behind you, it doesnt matter if hes going 80 or 200. You need to move out of the way. If you worried about the law being broken then make a career shift to highway patrol. i do 80 in a 65 on a regular basis and i hate having to switch lanes because people feel they are going fast enough at 65.

[yarrr]

Originally Posted by kustom play

if there is a faster car behind you, it doesnt matter if hes going 80 or 200. You need to move out of the way. If you worried about the law being broken then make a career shift to highway patrol. i do 80 in a 65 on a regular basis and i hate having to switch lanes because people feel they are going fast enough at 65.

That's the thing, I'm not worried about you speeding, and I'm not "trying to slow you down." I'm just not going out of my way, going slower than I need to, risking an accident moving into heavier traffic, just to let you speed. That's insanity, and you are all wrong in this thread. Slower traffic keep right - sure, but if I'm going the maximum speed allowed on the road, I by definition, am not slower traffic, and there is no need for me to move to the right. There is a need for you to stop speeding. That's why there are speed limit signs every mile or so, and only on CERTAIN highways, are there signs that say left lane passing only.

I can't count the number of times I personally have seen someone tailgating another person in the fast lane doing 70-75 when they both pass a highway patrol officer. I have never seen the officer pull the front person over, its always the person speeding and tailgating. You guys take some driving etiquette line and turn it into law.

Not to mention, most of the time when I'm doing 70 in the fast lane, and some immature douche bag that doesn't realize their vehicle can kill someone comes flying up on my ass and gets all flustered waving their arms frothing at the mouth like a rabid dog, I AM passing cars in the middle, and there is another car in front of me ALSO doing 70 ALSO passing someone, who I refuse to tailgate like 95% of drivers out there. Maybe if you weren't so busy weaving in and out of traffic doing 10-15 over the flow of traffic like its a video game or something, you would be aware of the situation enough to back off my bumper for 2 seconds.

All you supposedly safe and knowledgeable drivers make me sick. Speeding and tailgating are retarded, no other way to put it. And then you have the nerve to tell other people they are breaking the law by getting in your way.

[Kal-El]

Reading this thread reaffirms that there is no consensus on how to freaking drive.

Those that have supported driving 65 in the passing lane...please partake of your Drano.

Proper driving etiquette means pulling to the right if anyone comes up behind you in the PASSING lane. Does NOT matter what speed you're going. If you're going 90 mph in the left lane and someone else wants to pass, move over unless middle lane traffic does not permit it. Plain and simple. It's not your job to police the road by going no faster than the speed limit and blocking others.

As for why cops speed while not in pursuit or emergency situations? It's quite simple. They need to constantly overcome new traffic to find lawbreakers. If they paced everyone at 65, they'd be wasting their time because they'd stay with the same group of cars that wouldn't dare pass him. What would that accomplish other than traffic congestion behind him? By going the usual 80-85 cruising speed they do, it allows them to catch up to unsuspecting speeders. They are in fact trained at high speed driving and have enhanced cars that perform well at speeds. It's not the same danger as some careless punk weaving traffic.

Maybe we need to send about half of America to Germany for some driving lessons.