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re: Oklahoma Left Lane law
Posted on 10/19/17 at 11:11 am to NYNolaguy1
Posted on 10/19/17 at 11:11 am to NYNolaguy1
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People swerving around people going the speed limit are people who drive dangerously and break the law.
Do these people believe they are above speed limits?
What is so hard about going the speed limit?
People are going to do this regardless of your opinion on the matter. You're not gonna stop people from speeding, so like I said, camping out in the left lane while feeling morally superior still creates a more dangerous road way that you would be contributing to.
ETA: What is so hard about moving over into the right lane after your pass is complete?
This post was edited on 10/19/17 at 11:12 am
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Posted on 10/19/17 at 11:13 am to DoUrden
this is law in many states and has been for a long time, rarely is it enforced. usually out in rural highways does this get enforced.
Posted on 10/19/17 at 11:18 am to monkeybutt
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People are going to do this regardless of your opinion on the matter. You're not gonna stop people from speeding, so like I said, camping out in the left lane while feeling morally superior still creates a more dangerous road way that you would be contributing to.
Call me old school, but I just dont see how the person following the law can be blamed for enabling someone to break the law.
I feel like this would make for an interesting dynamic in a legal proceeding.
Prosecutor to defendant: "Why were you swerving and speeding?"
Defendant: "Because the idiot driver in front of me was breaking the law by going the speed limit."
Posted on 10/19/17 at 11:21 am to NYNolaguy1
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So what happens when you go the speed limit in the left lane, while holding up traffic?
Ticket?
Why are you in the left lane if you're not passing?
Posted on 10/19/17 at 11:25 am to NYNolaguy1
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Call me old school, but I just dont see how the person following the law can be blamed for enabling someone to break the law.
I know OK just passed this, but most states already had it, so your argument is more someone breaking the law being blamed for enabling someone else to break a different law.
It all really boils down to one thing. Do you think people will stop speeding? Do you think you have any control whatsoever on changing the current mindset of our speeding culture? If you don't, then I don't see how you could really shrug off any of the blame if you see someone coming up behind you going slightly faster than you are, and your response is "I'm not moving over" and then the guy gets in a wreck trying to move to the right then back to the left to get around you.
We don't live in some fantasy world.
Posted on 10/19/17 at 11:26 am to DoUrden
Oklahoma just now doing this? Damn I’d hate to live there.
Posted on 10/19/17 at 11:37 am to DoUrden
The two down votes were from people who still don't understand the interstate.
Posted on 10/19/17 at 11:38 am to PaperPaintball92
Or they're just assholes.
Posted on 10/19/17 at 11:50 am to NYNolaguy1
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People swerving around people going the speed limit are people who drive dangerously and break the law.
Both are breaking the law.
Posted on 10/19/17 at 11:50 am to GoCrazyAuburn
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not letting people pass you in the passing lane.
Again I'll ask, it is my responsibility to move so someone else can break the law? The spped limit applies to both lanes, so long as one is going to speed limit they do not have to move.
Posted on 10/19/17 at 11:51 am to NYNolaguy1
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I just dont see how the person following the law can be blamed for enabling someone to break the law.
They aren't following the law.
Posted on 10/19/17 at 11:54 am to CaptainBrannigan
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Again I'll ask, it is my responsibility to move so someone else can break the law? The spped limit applies to both lanes, so long as one is going to speed limit they do not have to move.
I'm sorry you don't understand the law in your own state. That's not mine or the person you are not letting pass in the passing lane's fault.
Posted on 10/19/17 at 12:06 pm to DoUrden
If i had one day as a cop i would literally spend my whole day pulling over people just crusing in the passing lane. Sir that car just passed me doing 120. Don't care but did you see that SOB doing 70 in the left lane with a line behind him.
Posted on 10/19/17 at 12:07 pm to CaptainBrannigan
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Again I'll ask, it is my responsibility to move so someone else can break the law? The spped limit applies to both lanes, so long as one is going to speed limit they do not have to move.
If you are not passing the car to the right while in the left lane, you are breaking the law.
Speed is irrelevant.
Posted on 10/19/17 at 12:07 pm to upgrayedd
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Louisiana has this law. It has not changed shitty driver habits one bit. Much like texting while driving laws.
That is because like most traffic laws, it is never enforced unless it's rare circumstances. IMO the only thing that they care to enforce is speeding, DUI (which I have no problem with) and reckless operation (which I also don't have a problem with them enforcing)
How many times do you see people getting ticketed for failure to signal, following too close, etc? I'm not sure police enforce failure to stop at a stop sign unless it's in a school zone. (at least that is how it is around here)
I see people run stop signs all the time in front of the police and not even so much as a flash of the lights when it happens.
Pass all the traffic laws you want to, but if they are never enforced, no one will ever obey them.
This post was edited on 10/19/17 at 12:09 pm
Posted on 10/19/17 at 12:08 pm to DoUrden
Cool. You're going 70MPH. I'll pass you at 70.0000001MPH.
Posted on 10/19/17 at 12:14 pm to GoCrazyAuburn
The law is designed to keep the left lane clear. Not only is it to help with traffic flow, but what lane do emergency vehicle use when trying to get somewhere? The left.
It keeps driving traffic to the right, with only minimal passing traffic in the left lane.
It keeps driving traffic to the right, with only minimal passing traffic in the left lane.
Posted on 10/19/17 at 12:35 pm to Centinel
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If you are not passing the car to the right while in the left lane, you are breaking the law.
Speed is irrelevant.
You saying we should all stay in the right lane and move over one at a time to pass? And then when passing car moves back over next should go? That doesn't work.
If you're the first or any car in a line of cars in the left and you're going faster than a car in the right lane, then you're good to go. Once the first car is clear to move right, it should and others will do the same when it's their respective turn whether they continue to pass what was the first car or fall in behind the first car in the right.
The following cars should not try to cut around cars in front of them by using the right lane just because they want to pass faster. As long as the cars in front of you are passing someone in the right lane, then you have no business trying to swerve around people in the line.
Posted on 10/19/17 at 12:38 pm to CaptainBrannigan
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Again I'll ask, it is my responsibility to move so someone else can break the law?
No, you fricking idiot. It's your responsibility to move because the law says you can't cruise in the left lane. Period. All else, like your feelings and every thought you've ever managed to have, is irrelevant.
This post was edited on 10/19/17 at 12:44 pm
Posted on 10/19/17 at 12:39 pm to Steadyhands
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You saying we should all stay in the right lane and move over one at a time to pass?
How in the hell did you get this out of what I posted?
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