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This is probably the thing people understand the least about the left lane, and I bet this guy is one of em.
It doesn't matter what speed you are passing, as long as you are passing (and of course if you are barely passing youre a dick).
But not because im passing 10km/h faster and you want to pass 30km/h faster, that I need to move out of the way. Flashing your lights and putting your blinker only makes me want to pass slower. The left lane is not reserved for the fastest driver on the road.
Yes, passing lane – not fast lane.
Faster lane?
My dude that’s just a picture of the means of production being seized.
I agree as long as the slower driver was already in the process of passing. Cutting off the approaching faster driver is unsafe.
Yeah this makes sense. My comment only refers to already in the lane and passing, and some donkey wants to pass faster and won't wait 4 seconds until you're done passing (at a good speed)
One way to earn yourself a premium insurance rate, if you survive. 🤞🏽
If someone starts aggressively flashing their lights behind me I like to assume they are trying to alert me that I'm driving too fast and should slow down immediately lol
I assume they're having an emergency. Or they're a raging asshole. In either case it's not a great idea to play games with them. If you ever fuck around and find out I hope you'll come tell us about it so I can gloat.
I sometimes wonder who died and made them all highway patrol. I just want to get home safe, can people just not fucking ego trip behind the wheel of the 2 ton deathmobile?
Frankly it’s harder than you think for many, the only thing that calms me down and makes me drive absolutely great is weed but I hesitate to drive mildly high too often to not get caught randomly by some pig.
Also it seems like the more time I am driving the more bmw drivers and bmw drivers without bmw piss me off.
Hi, I'm an enthusiast.
Fuck you for smoking and driving.
You cannot justify it to me no matter how many times you rephrase "it helps me chill Bro"
It helps me chill bro
What do you mean you are an enthusiast though. Are you my fan? Please tell me you are my fan it would be so cool
Holy shit please do not smoke and drive.
Can’t give any promises 😈
Well you just promised us you’re a piece of shit, so … seems you can
Maybe I am maybe I am not, none of your business honey
I haven’t decided yet
Yes, you can. Please do the responsible thing.
Funny thing about irrational people? Even if you act as safe as you can, they'll find some way to blame you for being their problem.
Tolerance of intolerance is not tolerance. It's enablement. Sure, don't be a petty dick and make the situation worse... but don't necessarily act the doormat either.
Remember that reddit story about blocking a shoulder passer? (SafeReddit)
I've got a similar story, but with a much more positive ending.
Was at a LARP event, camping in the woods, when a girl started having an asthma attack. She'd forgotten her inhaler, no one else had one on hand, and she was visibly turning blue as she suffocated. We called 911, but the nearest hospital was in a city several miles away and the 911 operator couldn't locate our site to send the ambulance.
We agreed to meet the ambulance on the highway halfway, loaded up in my truck, and I booked it. Pushed my little 4-cylinder Frontier up to 115mph. Fastest I've ever driven. I had my hazards going and was flashing my brights like an asshole at every car I overtook. Thank fuck they all yielded to me.
We met the ambulance on the side of the road, transferred her over, and they were able to get her breathing again. She survived.
OMG!
You saved a life ❤️ great collab
Yeah, and never proven to be true.
Sounded a little suspicious on a second read!
So you feel that it would be better for me to either increase to an unsafe speed or force my way back into the slower traffic that I was trying to pass in the first place?
You're driving at the bleeding edge of what you consider safe, couldn't possibly pick it up a bit to get by and move over? You're doing that and have the audacity to judge other drivers? Get the fuck off the road entirely, sell your car, stay indoors.
Ah, so your answer is "why don't you just do what I tell you?" and beyond that you immediately resort to hurling insults? This is all starting to make a lot of sense now...
You're claiming to be driving so fast that any increase in speed would make an unsafe situation. Your reading comprehension is so poor that you take offense at non-existent insults. Yeah, you shouldn't be driving at all.
I was just about to type out another argument, but I realized it's pointless. You clearly will not be happy with any answer other than "everyone should just let you drive however you want to" with a healthy dose of "the rules only apply to everyone else"...
You have fun with that buddy
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Well there is this thing called a speed limit, that is a very clear hard limit. If you go over, it is at the very least financially unsafe.
There's also a law that says to yield to overtaking traffic. Where's the law that says creating a rolling road block is OK? How did I miss the legislation that deputized every self righteous prick as some kind of speed limit enforcer?
I usually just get out of the way no matter how fast I'm going. No need to create road rage based on my ego and the asshole flashing me
I take it to mean that they want me to match the speed of the car beside me.
Don't most highways have signs that say "Slower Traffic Keep Right" though? So that pretty much negates your argument. If you are slower than the traffic behind you, you should get into the right lane, until you're no longer slower, then get back into the left if you need to continue passing.
I woukd take that to mean if you are faster than the car in the other lane then you are good up until that's no longer the case (e.g. until you have passed them).
From the comment you replied to:
If you're not passing, get over. If you are passing, getting over means merging into another vehicle: don't do that.
Passing a car is an active endeavor, not something you languidly perform over a period of 5 minutes. If you're going 1 mph faster than the car in the right lane, you don't belong in the passing lane and are impeding the flow of traffic.
Cool story bro.
I literally said that in my original comment. Passing slow is just being a dick. (barely passing are the words I used).
Then i used the examples of 10km/h vs 30. Where did you get that 1mph is acceptable?
Found one who doesn't get it! Please turn in your license and save lives!
I suppose I would personally also be on my horn in an emergency but this attitude is why America can't have nice things. stop policing your fellow slaves and get out of the fucking way.
of course I live in a civilized country so America might just look bad because that's all that gets posted and most people aren't attempting to murder motorcycle riders for winning the rat race or shooting up schools.
Kinda lost me there, NGL. 😅 Still, I learned to drive in Detroit & Chicago, and then again in Germany & Italy. The vast majority of US drivers are fucking selfish morons, and the majority of them should not have any license to drive at all. 🙇🏽♂️