Did I wake up in the UK?

"MarquetteLa" (marquettela) 05/12/2016 at 12:40 • Filed to: None

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No? Then why the balls does no one use the #1 right-side lane???

All those cars in the center lane are just dawdling along, getting passed by backed-up cars in the left lane and getting passed by the occassional driver in the right lane.

This 3-lane highway has essentially been made into a 2-lane highway simply because drivers refuse to use the right-hand lane.

WTF

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dogisbadob > MarquetteLa 05/12/2016 at 12:43

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Is that right lane exit only?

ttyymmnn > MarquetteLa 05/12/2016 at 12:44

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Cuz this is ‘Murica and I’ll drive wherever I damn well please cuz it’s my Constitutional right. You can’t tell me what to do.

Future next gen S2000 owner > MarquetteLa 05/12/2016 at 12:45

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I’m convinced the right lane has turned into the secret fast lane.

MarquetteLa > Future next gen S2000 owner 05/12/2016 at 12:45

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yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep pretty much

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > MarquetteLa 05/12/2016 at 12:45

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It’s sad. I do most of my passing in the right lane just because that’s where I happen to be. No need to change lanes if there’s no one in front of me.

MarquetteLa > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie 05/12/2016 at 12:46

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This is exactly my thinking. The law is to stay right except to pass...except I don’t need to move left to pass, so I don’t.

MarquetteLa > dogisbadob 05/12/2016 at 12:47

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Nope, it’s a full 3-lane highway (I-25 just north of Denver) with additional exit-only lanes.

Hot Takes Salesman > MarquetteLa 05/12/2016 at 12:49

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It is overwhelming to think of how many drivers are completely fucking brainless. It’s like a Lovecraftian horror thing- something too large to comprehend, except in this case it’s just infinitely frustrating instead of existentially terrifying

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > MarquetteLa 05/12/2016 at 12:50

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I’m lucky in that Florida specifies that it’s only illegal to alter direction (ie change lanes) to pass on the right, so if some cop decides to be an assshole.... I can get tazed (bro!) for knowing the law?

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Future next gen S2000 owner 05/12/2016 at 12:50

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It is for me. I hardly leave it anymore.

duurtlang > MarquetteLa 05/12/2016 at 12:53

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Make America Great Britain Again! Blame Trump.

marvthegrate > MarquetteLa 05/12/2016 at 12:56

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I don’t drive in the rightmost lane on I-15 in SLC mostly because it’s almost always an exit/entrance lane. Also, it’s usually 5-6 lanes wide at any point in the valley. That said, I’ll move over if I am getting passed. But probably, only to the #2 lane since the #1 lane is likely going to turn into an exit lane at the next exit. Not too much in the way of 3 lane freeways for me to consider locally.

facw > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie 05/12/2016 at 12:57

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Strictly speaking, the FL law says:

The driver of a vehicle may overtake and pass another vehicle on the right only under conditions permitting such movement in safety.

Which is so broad as to be meaningless. But clearly the code contemplates passing on the right as being safe sometimes (it separately lists specific exceptions for passing cars turning left and the like). Seems like something they’d have a very hard time making stick unless you caused an accident (thus proving your movement was not “in safety”).

It also explicitly allows passing on the right on divided highways:

Upon a one-way street, or upon any roadway on which traffic is restricted to one direction of movement, where the roadway is free from obstructions and of sufficient width for two or more lines of moving vehicles.

Urambo Tauro > MarquetteLa 05/12/2016 at 12:57

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Isn’t “#1” the designation for the left-most forward lane (in drive-right countries)?

facw > MarquetteLa 05/12/2016 at 12:59

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People don’t want to drive in the rightmost lane because:

It makes them feel like a wimpy slowpoke.

They don’t want to deal with merging cars at onramps.

They want to be nice at onramps.

Drivers (or at least Houston drivers) often slow down to 40 if their exit is coming up, completely disregarding that the whole point of the ramp is to give you space to slow down.

JustAnotherG6 > MarquetteLa 05/12/2016 at 13:00

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You guys... don cha know they are just being polite? Leaving enough room for the non-existent car to merge into traffic. That way they don’t have to hit their breaks to let them in.

/sarcasm

PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power > MarquetteLa 05/12/2016 at 13:05

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get in the right, put the hammer down. I see no problem doing 100-110 in the far right lane if there's no traffic in it

Svend > MarquetteLa 05/12/2016 at 13:06

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“Nobody will overtake me if I take up the overtaking lane”- said almost everybody on the road.

When I see images of U.S. highways with cars all over all the lanes and the thought that one day I pay visit and have to drive on them I think:-

Urambo Tauro > MarquetteLa 05/12/2016 at 13:09

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Part of this equation is the truck drivers who like to occupy the center lane. They have a good reason, too. When there are three or more forward lanes, trucks are usually permitted to use either of the two right-most lanes. In areas with frequent exiting/entering ramp traffic, its better to keep the truck out of the far right lane so that you’re not trying to merge/slow/accelerate such a large vehicle over and over again to accommodate merging ramp traffic.

Fortunately, passing on the right is often acceptable , as long as you understand your local laws and the situation at hand.

As for the left lane, there are two things happening. One is that someone is spending too much time in the left lane after having overtaken slower traffic. The other thing is that people are disagreeing over how fast one should be going in the left lane.

d15b > MarquetteLa 05/12/2016 at 13:10

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Real Oppos use the left lanes for passing, not cruising.

If anything:

Lane 3 would be used by semis for crusing

Lane 2 would be used for semis passing and for cars crusing

Lane 1 would be used for cars passing

But, sheeple is why this doesn’t work.

Edit: I do ALL my passing on the left lanes. I have the smug satisfaction of passing correctly when the idiot who goes to the right of the semi has to slam on their brakes because they didn’t know there was a semi in the right lane.

MarquetteLa > Urambo Tauro 05/12/2016 at 13:20

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Yep, semis are a totally different story.

MarquetteLa > Svend 05/12/2016 at 13:21

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I envy European lane discipline.

Ash78, voting early and often > MarquetteLa 05/12/2016 at 13:21

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During really busy times in congested areas with 3+ lanes, it's polite to stay out of the right lane and allow exiting and entering motorists to use it (in situations where there's an exit every mile or so). But that doesn't look like the case here. This is just asshattery.

MarquetteLa > Urambo Tauro 05/12/2016 at 13:23

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Is it? I’m honestly not sure but I figured the #1 lane would be the “base” lane that other lanes then build off of. Thus you would ‘always’ have the #1 lane even if the 3-lane highway turned into a 2-lane highway.

J_P_Cars10s > MarquetteLa 05/12/2016 at 13:25

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Just drove through there a couple weeks ago. Saturday afternoon traffic flowing at 85-90 in the left lane, with visibility <100 yards. Fun times.

MarquetteLa > J_P_Cars10s 05/12/2016 at 13:28

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When I moved from Louisiana (cops everywhere looking for 75+ mph speeders) to Colorado, I was truly impressed by the rate at which high traffic usually flows around here. I usually do 90+ with other folks on my daily commute.

Urambo Tauro > MarquetteLa 05/12/2016 at 13:29

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That sound like an intuitive way to go about it, but most of what I hear about the numbering system comes from places like California, which are very consistent. I don’t think we assign lane numbers here in Michigan, though.

MarquetteLa > Ash78, voting early and often 05/12/2016 at 13:30

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Yep, I have no issue with forethought and consideration for your fellow motorists. But this section of interstate would very rarely be congested for my commutes if people just kept right.

Svend > MarquetteLa 05/12/2016 at 13:32

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In Britain and Europe there are still a few a-holes who think they own the road but they can be recognised easy enough, they usually drive de-badged small engined BMW 3 Series, Audi A4s, white vans, executives in company cars (saloon cars that look like they’ve never been cleaned inside and out, including BMW 3 Series, Audi A4, Ford Mondeo, Toyota Avensis, Vauxhall Insignia, etc...) and Porsches.

MarquetteLa > Svend 05/12/2016 at 13:33

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White panel vans are often the cause of passing-lane backups for me. So frustrating.

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > facw 05/12/2016 at 13:53

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I wonder if they changed it. Can’t be bothered to look it up and haven’t checked in a while. Ironically, if being passed on the right, it’s lawful for the left-lane-hog to be an asshole and match your speed.

Except when overtaking and passing on the right is permitted, the driver of an overtaken vehicle shall give way to the right in favor of the overtaking vehicle, on audible signal or upon the visible blinking of the headlamps of the overtaking vehicle if such overtaking is being attempted at nighttime, and shall not increase the speed of his or her vehicle until completely passed by the overtaking vehicle.

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > facw 05/12/2016 at 14:10

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“Of sufficient width" Seems like that would give some drivers from India freedom to drive just like home.

Svend > MarquetteLa 05/12/2016 at 14:23

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Yes’ ‘white van man’ is often a Ford Transit or Mercedes Sprinter driven by a bloke with a beer gut, highly opinionated and that he is always in the right, prone to lane dominance and road rage especially you happen to be in front, etc...

Svend > ttyymmnn 05/12/2016 at 15:19

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I love that line “it’s my constitutional right”. No matter what it is they try to justify their actions regardless of right or wrong, good or bad as being their constitutional right.

ttyymmnn > Svend 05/12/2016 at 15:21

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As the fundamental law of the land, it’s surprising—well, maybe not—how little Americans understand the way that document actually works.

Svend > duurtlang 05/12/2016 at 15:21

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Svend > ttyymmnn 05/12/2016 at 15:30

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Here we have the Uncodified Constitution mostly known as the Unwritten Constitution which many if not most people know of customs, bylaws, precedent, etc... (some still abuse it).

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Svend 05/12/2016 at 20:02

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we’re not so different after all

BayAreaMiataBoi > MarquetteLa 05/12/2016 at 23:22

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You all don’t watch enough Top Gear: Because that’s the +LOSER LANE!!!+