People who don't use the passing lane to pass

[smokindog]

To me this is all more basic. Keep checking your mirrors, ALL OF THEM. Know the cars in your mirrors. If they look to be building up or "tailing" you and you can make a path, DO SO. It's called common courtesy.

I used to work in a downtown office and the freeway leading there went through hilly terrain. You could look from the top of one hill a mile or more ahead and see the "olympic precision driving team" matching speeds to the 1/10 of an RPM and spanning 5 lanes with more than a mile of traffic to the rear and open road in front.

Know the laws but more importantly, know what impact YOU are having on traffic. Try some courtesy. Bunched up traffic is DANGEROUS.

 

[fdw]

My wife and I call them "left lane lovers" and this is a huge pet peeve of mine. I see it all the time around here and when I'm driving to the beach.

It's like people could not care less that they have 15 cars backed up behind them when they are driving 60 in a 70. Very dangerous too cause everybody gets uptight and everyone is packed in close. It's like they are in a dream world oblivious to what's going around them or they just don't care.

 

[islamoradamark]

they dont read English or speak it SO HOW ARE THEY GOING TO DRIVE IN THE SLOW LANE

 

[SLT223]

To me this is all more basic. Keep checking your mirrors, ALL OF THEM. Know the cars in your mirrors. If they look to be building up or "tailing" you and you can make a path, DO SO. It's called common courtesy.

I used to work in a downtown office and the freeway leading there went through hilly terrain. You could look from the top of one hill a mile or more ahead and see the "olympic precision driving team" matching speeds to the 1/10 of an RPM and spanning 5 lanes with more than a mile of traffic to the rear and open road in front.

Know the laws but more importantly, know what impact YOU are having on traffic. Try some courtesy. Bunched up traffic is DANGEROUS.

What you're touching on is maintaining a high level of situational awareness, which I think is becoming a thing of the past. I can't prove this but I feel that as technology has made our lives more convenient, we think less about what we are doing. The result is minds that are not trained to take in data from an environment, and turn it into useful information. I mean Ford even has automatic windshield wipers. If someone is such mouth breather they can't even tell it's raining, should they be operating a vehicle? I think not.

 

[flundertaker]

I have long ago given up on schooling slower folks in the left lane to move over. It is pointless!
I just leave myself some room and pass in whatever lane is available.

This exactly. I fly up at what ever my speed is and go right, left whatever is necessarily to get me around them. I don't wait a second nor signal. Some get suprised when a dually blows by at warp speed, some are oblivious. Either way I dont care and am on my way. Here in FL if I worried or waited for slow drivers I would literally never get anywhere!

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[NYlakesider]

This is one of my biggest pet peeves. On the open road the left lane is the PASSING lane. Whenever I come up on a slow driver all alone on the road in front of me, I get behind them and flash my headlights to get them to move over.
Then I get hollered at for the next 50 miles by Missus Fan.
Jim

You do that here in the people's republic of NY and you have a good chance of getting a Road Rage or aggressive driver ticket.
As usual this state has some unusual ways of defining things and the idiot holding up dozens of people getting flashed at or one finger saluted as you go by them gets YOU the citation. Also passing those clowns(AKA left lane bandits) on the wrong side in many places will get you cited!

I drove CDL for years and also did lots of driving commuting and have seen much. Even if someone cuts you off by not being aware anyone else is out there that's just a bad move and should be ignored. You react and are seen it's aggressive driving on your part.

As usual the laws written protect the idiots and losers and punish the regular people.

 

[steamloco76]

PA has a "left lane law" that, amongst other things, prohibits the use of the left lane unless you are going to make a left turn within a given distance or passing slower moving vehicles that "should be" in the right lane. Most, but not all of the drivers I see ignoring this law are in vehicles with out of state plates or older drivers (usually women) in slow motion who move into the left lane to turn left five miles up the road. The OP is right - it ticks me off also and I often wish bump drafting was legal!

State Laws | The Left Lane Is For Passing

The left lane clogging became bad enough on a fifteen mile section of my county's major north-south artery that PennDot posted "STATE LAW-KEEP LEFT EXCEPT TO PASS" signs. You don't see that very often.

My wife has some older women as friends. When unable to drive due to medical conditions, she has been transported by a few to her medical appointments. All of them are left lane hoggers, which really irritates may wife. She won't ride with a couple of them anymore.

 

[bunkshaner]

The issue we have here is 2 stupid idiots travel 5-10 miles below the speed limit side by side and never allow traffic to get around them. They will have traffic backed up for as far as the eye can see. Stupid people shouldn't breed

 

[Krell1]

I drive back and forth to Las Vegas quite often on I-15. It amazes me just how many people drive constantly in the left lane. Also, I don't want to insult anyone from Kalifornia but, I see many Kal plates slow down when passing. They come up in the passing lane and seem to deliberately slow down as they're passing. Typically, if traffic is heavy, you'll see a line up in the left lane as these people do this. When this happens, you'll also see the impatient driver go to the right and try to pass the line of traffic in the left lane rather than waiting their turn. They'll then cut to the left in whatever space there may be.

I don't know how some of these people learned how to drive when they think it's OK to just stay in the left lane. I always learned that the left lane is for passing.

Actually driving through Las Vegas is a whole other story. Five lanes to drive in and every man for himself. There you get a lot of what I would call Kamikaze drivers. It's only a matter of time before they take someone else out.

 

[tacreload]

Let me add that also the state of Pa.could save a fortune by stopping the manufacture of YIELD signs.I think I'm the only one who actually sees them.Nobody yields coming on to the highway,they don't care if you can move over or not.

 

[fideau]

When you see idiots on the highway, it is better to get out of the way and don't confront. If it's bad enough, call the law, but otherwise ignore it.
That said, what really gets me is if you are passing slower traffic, but not really speeding, and some jerk running 25 over the limit catches up and immediately starts flashing his lights and blowing the horn. I usually just speed up and get over, but when I was working, in an unmarked cruiser, I loved the surprised faces when I pulled one of those over. Funny, they were usually from NY, NJ, Mass., in that general area. If they were from Ga. it was obvious they weren't born there.

 

[meaneyedcatz]

Oh Boy!!!! You ain't never lied!!!! This makes me so mad I cant see straight.

Here on I44 in Franklin county MO there are two exits about 3/4 of a mile apart. I cant tell you how many times I've seen someone get on the highway, get over into the left lane then do 62 mph in a 70. THEN, force their way back into the right lane to take the next exit (3/4 mile later) while everybody hits the brakes like they are avoiding a pileup at Bristol racetrack.

Don't tailgate but if you put your headlamp in their left door mirror this often works in getting them over, assuming they have a clue.

 

[LVSteve]

On that note, how about the Patrol doing 5 under the limit in the center lane?

I just take that as the trooper saving gas and the taxpayers' money. I just go right on by in whichever lane is legal in that state. Unless the trooper is a complete wastrel, he's not going to give you a ticket.

The problem is few think like me, and you get a massive back up of frightened drivers who won't pass a cop. Get help, people. I bowled with a guy who worked NHP and he said that behaviour drove him nuts.

Years ago in Britain I came across a knot of cars on the motorway caused by folk who would not exceed 60 to pass the 55 mph patrol car, all this in a 70 limit. I blew by at my normal indicated 75 (All European cars over read) and saw folk pointing from other cars, no doubt telling their passengers, "He's going to get nicked". On a sunny clear day in light traffic? Really? I don't think so.

 

[Old TexMex]

My sister literally has an IQ a point higher than Stephen Hawking's. Brilliant, creative, compassionate woman.

I haven't been forced to ride with her driving in several years, thank heaven. On the interstate she gets in the left lane and drives five miles an hour below the posted limit. I've tried telling her that's a good way to get ticketed, forced off the road or shot. She just says, "It's their problem."

Drives me bat poop crazy.

Goes to show ya. Stephen Hawkings isn't really that smart....

 

[finesse_r]

My sister literally has an IQ a point higher than Stephen Hawking's. Brilliant, creative, compassionate woman.

I haven't been forced to ride with her driving in several years, thank heaven. On the interstate she gets in the left lane and drives five miles an hour below the posted limit. I've tried telling her that's a good way to get ticketed, forced off the road or shot. She just says, "It's their problem."

Drives me bat poop crazy.

I am positive that you don't have to have a high IQ in order to drive like that. The roads are full of such drivers.

The ones that drive me a little nuts, are on the smaller highways with one lane each way. Slow drivers that drive slow on the curves and hills with a double yellow stripe and as soon as the road straightens out or they get over the hill where you can pass them, they decide to try out for race car driver of the year just about the time you try to pass them. They suddenly go from 45 to 75.

I don't understand this other than it is intentional passive aggressive behavior. It is however, a dangerous way to behave.

 

[arjay]

My favorite drivers [emoji57] are out 50 miles from anywhere,sitting on a side road...waiting..until I'm doing 80 on a 2 lane with no traffic..and they wait..until I'm almost there..and they pull out!! WTH!!

 

[rwsmith]

Lockstep

I call this going in lockstep. They can do that for miles.

 

[LVSteve]

I call this going in lockstep. They can do that for miles.

I've seen it described as "traveling with the herd" and a buddy calls it "snuggling up". I have noticed on I-15 people look at you funny if you are NOT traveling in gaggle of other cars. Yeah, I'm that guy, sue me.

I detest snuggling up which often happens when I join a freeway for some reason. To escape the snugglers I will often execute a maneuver I call "Cutting the knot" which in a Jaguar does not involve using the brakes...

 

[coltle6920]

My favorite drivers [emoji57] are out 50 miles from anywhere,sitting on a side road...waiting..until I'm doing 80 on a 2 lane with no traffic..and they wait..until I'm almost there..and they pull out!! WTH!!

You don't have to go that far to find those idiots.They're right here in town at every intersection.If I was in charge I would ban right-turn-on-red completely.It seems that a lot of people have no conception of how fast oncoming traffic is going or how close it is.The rest of the drivers just don't care.

Didn't the "rolling stop" originate in California?

 

[Doug M.]

When you see idiots on the highway, it is better to get out of the way and don't confront. If it's bad enough, call the law, but otherwise ignore it.

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Yeah, that's the "ticket", pardon the pun. Too many kooks will do dumb things, so the only target for my editorial commentary is the inside of the car. I will call WSP for the really stupid stuff, just so that if there is a trooper in the area they can be looking for the idiot.
I DID pull over a lot of HUA drivers who did this and other annoying stuff. Had a guy get on the Interstate right in front of me one night, head straight to the left lane for no reason, and then drive 60 in a 70. I got to use all three spaces on the Notice of Infraction.