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05/17/2016 at 02:42 • Filed to: None
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This supports what a lot of us were already thinking!
We’ve all been there. You’re driving down the interstate and suddenly come up on someone who’s going much slower than you are. If you’re both in the right lane, you just casually ease into the left lane and go around them. But what if there are slower drivers in both lanes? That’s when the road rage hits.
Well, we now have scientific proof that driving too slow in the left lane is not only harmful to drivers’ mental states, but also to the physical safety of everyone on the road.
New research shows that two cars riding side-by-side going the same speed can result in major traffic buildups.
Additionally, studies reveal that some left-lane-drivers are misguided in believing they are actually keeping people safer by slowing down traffic. In reality, cars going 5 mph slower than the surrounding traffic have a greater chance of causing accidents than cars going 5 mph faster, and having slow drivers in both lanes often results in faster drivers weaving in and out of traffic, drastically increasing the risk of accidents. The research shows that slowing down and changing lanes multiple times can be far more dangerous than speeding, causing almost 10 percent of the total accidents on highways.
Reducing speed limits in general doesn’t seem to help either. On the German Autobahn, speed limits are often nonexistent, but accident and fatality rates are lower on the Autobahn than on U.S. highways. Research indicates one of the primary reasons for this is that the Germans are much stricter on lane discipline – meaning traffic is separated by speed, with slower cars staying out of the way of faster ones.
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Berang
> cuts_off_prius
05/17/2016 at 02:49 |
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“...having slow drivers in both lanes often results in faster drivers weaving in and out of traffic, drastically increasing the risk of accidents.”
You know guys who scream “
look what you made me do
!” right after they finish beating their child or wife? That sentence reminded me of those sorts.
Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
> Berang
05/17/2016 at 04:15 |
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I agree, when I get stuck behind someone clogging the passing lane I wait, when they’re really taking the piss I might flash my lights at them to get their attention. I would never tailgate or weave through traffic.
Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
> cuts_off_prius
05/17/2016 at 07:42 |
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Yes.
sm70- why not Duesenberg?
> cuts_off_prius
05/17/2016 at 08:10 |
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PRAISE RESEARCH!
gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee
> cuts_off_prius
05/17/2016 at 08:48 |
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I don’t understand this mentality at all. There’s a section of really windy road highway where I live, lots of sharp blind curves and hills, and the speed limit is 80km/h, in contrast to 100 everywhere else. 50mph vs 60. Lots of people still do 100. But every so often you encounter someone doing 60km/h or less. I got stuck behind someone doing I kid you not 40km/h the other day. There are no passing lanes and very few spots marked for passing in the oncoming lane, so you can easily get stuck behind these people for 5-10 minutes, with traffic coming up behind you at more than twice your own speed. Like, why the fuck wouldn’t you pull over? And then you get the person who’s too timid to pass in the oncoming lane, and sits behind them forever, and no one else coming up behind is going to pass multiple vehicles at once... Breeding road rage does NOT make roads safer, no matter who’s at fault in a collision.
WiscoProud
> Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
05/17/2016 at 10:26 |
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Depending on my level of patience, I may wait, I may flash my lights, or most effectively, I might come upon them at a high rate of speed before backing off from tailgating distance, then doing it again. That has proven to be quite effective.
Urambo Tauro
> Berang
05/17/2016 at 10:57 |
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Yeah, we need to be careful about where the blame is being placed here.
Say you have one driver going 95 mph, until they are slowed down by vehicles in both lanes. The right lane has a truck going 55, and the left lane has a car going 70, “only” 5 over the 65 mph speed limit. Who gets to pretend that they are the “flow of traffic” that others have to yield to? And who is at fault for the inconvenienced driver’s road rage?
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Joseph Usher
> Urambo Tauro
01/13/2019 at 10:51 |
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It’s not a matter of speed alone, although speed is a factor. If a car is driving in the passing lane but can safely move over and “go with the flow” of traffic in the middle or right lanes, that car MUST, by law, move over, period! The passing lane is exactly that, a PASSING lane. Of course, in city and bumper-to-bumper traffic, that rule kind of goes out the window, but for normally flowing traffic, you pass slower cars, then GET BACK OVER so others may pass you. It’s that simple. You are not allowed to simply merge onto t he freeway, blaze over into the left lane (without looking to see how many cars you cut off on your way over) , and just stay there. That’s against the law.