re: This is why you shouldn’t drive slow in the left lane

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Do people understand the concept of slowing down or passing, even if it's in the right-hand lane?

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About as much as people understanding the concept of a passing lane.

I commute to work via the Causeway and some people really don't get this very simple concept.

If you are in the left lane and someone behind you wants to go faster, please merge right as soon as you have a chance!

It drives me nucking futs when timid drivers are in the left holding up the commuters who aren't afraid to go 70 across the bridge.

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Do you ride their arse?

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If they're holding up traffic, absolutely.

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Please post and sticky on the Texas board.

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This. As someone who grew up in Washington state, driving in DFW is maddening. There is no way that the term "passing lane" is ever muttered in TX drivers ed courses.

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After driving in Germany for three and a half years, I've become a very pissed off driver most of the time because I've experienced how well traffic flows if people just follow the fricking law and keep right except to pass.

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+1

All of Western Europe is that way.....plenty of evidence of how it can work for us entitled amerikan fricks.

Welcome to Texas, these a holes get in the left lane as soon as they get on the freeway...

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Going over the limit by that much is way more dangerous to the flow of traffic.

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Not if you're in the right lane where your slow arse needs to be, moron.

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I agree with what is said in the video, but there is a major flaw that exists in reality outside of the concept. All would be good and fine if cars got back into the right lane after passing, but that doesn't always happen. What happens is you have some drivers who feel that they're going 85+ mph, therefore it's ok to stay in the left instead of constantly getting back over to the right lane and passing when need be. So what we get is a mix of drivers going 10 mph under the speed limit and 20 mph over the speed limit, all in what's supposed to be a passing lane.

It's a passing lane, not a fast lane.

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This.

But aside from just assholes camping in the left lane and forcing people to pass in the right, which pisses me off to no end because I HATE having to use the right lane to pass and typically go out of my way to give the thoughtless in the left lane the opportunity to get over before doing so, is people who like to bob and weave in heavy traffic conditions.

This happens almost every time I drive in heavy traffic conditions where speeds hover around the speed limit or just below. I'll be in the left lane, behind miles of stacked cars which are actually passing slower right lane traffic, when some retard behind me decides that because there is a temporary gap in the right lane after passing a slower vehicle, that's an open invitation for them to swap over to the right lane and speed up until they inevitably run right up to the bumper of the next vehicle in the right lane, which of course is also being passed by all the left lane traffic, and then jumps back over into the left lane cutting people off and starting a chain reaction of people having to hit their brakes. These are the true assholes of the road and piss me off ten times more than the oblivious left lane campers. Risking accidents and cutting people off who are passing slower traffic just to get two car lengths ahead in miles of congested interstate.