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Posted: 6/14/2022 2:34:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Either trolling or retarded. |
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Posted: 6/14/2022 3:07:00 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Either trolling or retarded. |
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Posted: 6/14/2022 3:10:27 PM EDT
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I drive the left lane until I need to pass someone moving slower than me. Speed isn't the issue. The issue is not holding up traffic.
Once I've passed them I get back in the right land and continue the trip. I try to stay away from left lane campers. Most of the time they seem oblivious to the rules of the road and many will absolutely refuse to get out of your way when you come up on the back of their vehicle. Asleep at the wheel or discourteous? I don't know. I just don't want to find out. Unaware people are dangerous. Discourteous people are something I try to stay away from. |
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Posted: 6/14/2022 3:22:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Either trolling or retarded. passing lane means if you're not passing GTFO. people need to get beatings for being total idiots again, the world would be a much better place. |
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Posted: 6/14/2022 3:36:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The passing lane means get the fuck out the way. If you're being passed on the right, you're wrong. Not always. Sometimes you’re in a center lane and some impatient lead foot deems the passing lane isn’t moving fast enough for him but the right lane has 87ft of clearance. Karma is sweet then if he then gets boxed in the slow lane….but then these are the guys that force a frantic lane change and cause pile ups. |
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Posted: 6/14/2022 3:59:25 PM EDT
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Try driving either the speed limit or 5 over IN THE RIGHT LANE. Very relaxing trip…get passed a lot, have to pass a slow poke occasionally, but not very often. Listen to some good tunes…enjoy the drive…life is good!
Constantly getting out of the right lane, and joining the “always in a rush” mix, is a royal pain in the ass. |
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Posted: 6/14/2022 4:04:36 PM EDT
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If you are in the left lane and a vehicle is behind you, you are an idiot.
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Posted: 6/14/2022 4:06:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Here in northern MN, people have to go in the right lane to pass you State has too many gay drivers. |
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Posted: 6/14/2022 4:07:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That's exactly what I do, so no, not nobody else. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Seems like it implies that I go 65 in a 65 zone in the right lane but if I get close to a 60 person I pull to the left lane and pass, then get back in the right lane. I don't do this and nobody else does. That's exactly what I do, so no, not nobody else. I stay in the right lane as well, except to pass. I make many, many passes in the left lane and get back over. In the rare occurrence that I am actively passing when another vehicle approaches from behind at a faster speed, I increase my speed accordingly until I can get back to the right lane. If that takes 95+ mph, I'm fine with it. This was coverd repeatedly in my South Carolina high-school driver's education class, in the state drivers test preparation booklet, and my dad harped on this point as well. I did the same to my son and his buddies also. I have been to two defensive driving schools in Alabama and one in Arizona, where in each course, the concept of the left lane being for passing was covered. Both Alabama courses were given by State troopers and both taught that left lane camping is passive aggressive and/or careless behavior and generally caused more unsafe conditions than speeding. It is also ticketable in Alabama. In my area, the police will occasionally announce a crackdown on ticketing for left lane campers in the local news. If you don't want to speed then don't speed, if you want to keep others from speeding, then you should consider a future in law enforcement but please contemplate your law enforcement career from the right lane! |
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Posted: 6/14/2022 4:09:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: If you are in the left lane and a vehicle is behind you, you are an idiot. What if there’s also a vehicle in front of you? |
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Posted: 6/14/2022 4:11:33 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: So you're saying treat the left lane like a cheap hooker? How do you roll up a traffic lane in cheap carpet? |
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Posted: 6/14/2022 4:34:50 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You are assuming the car ahead stops immediately. If it takes ~8 ft to stop from 60mph to 0, it has hit a concrete wall, which means you weren't looking beyond 1 car in front of you. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Your math doesn't make sense Googling will tell you the recommended safe following distance is 3sec. This is BS. At 60mph you cover 88fps and the average reaction time is 1.5sec. So, you've already eaten up half your following distance. This leaves 1.5sec and ~132ft to stop. The average stopping distance, of a "regular sized" vehicle is >140ft. You're going to make contact... So, lets just bump it to a 4sec following distance. (not saying this is better) If you're going to pass a vehicle, w/ a 4sec distance, at a delta of 7.3fps, at 60mph, you'll need to cover: the following distance (4*88), the length of your car (~15ft), the length of their car (~15ft), and another safe following distance (4*88). That's 206ft. At 7.3fps, it'll take >28sec to travel that distance. You are assuming the car ahead stops immediately. If it takes ~8 ft to stop from 60mph to 0, it has hit a concrete wall, which means you weren't looking beyond 1 car in front of you. I'm not accounting for any time for you to get from a "safe following distance" to the bumper of the car you are passing because I know you're 3ft off his bumper already. |
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Posted: 6/14/2022 5:20:41 PM EDT
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I hate to say it, but California does one thing right by installing turn-outs on two lane roads to give slower folks a place to wait. I've even seen a trooper use one to let fast people go by.
Colorado has plenty of places along US24 and US50 where those would be useful for the slow-pokes with campers, but alas there are >10 mile stretches without a legal place to pass. When legal, there are 87 cars backed up 
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Posted: 6/14/2022 5:22:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Either trolling or retarded. Get both. |
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Posted: 6/14/2022 5:27:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Good luck explaining that logic to a Texas DPS officer. I've never been pulled over in Texas for less than 11 over. I've never been pulled over when running a V1. |
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Posted: 6/14/2022 5:35:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: If we're talking highway/interstate-type multi-lane roads then it ain't a/the passing lane, its the fast lane. Single-lane roads/highways that have occassional passing lanes have passing lanes... ...says so on the signs https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c0/5c/d8/c05cd8867a5daf550b62d95c12f908a1.jpg You're WRONG... says so right on the signs.   
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Posted: 6/14/2022 5:37:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: If you are in the left lane and a vehicle is behind you, you are an idiot. What if you are passing someone who is in the right lane? |
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Posted: 6/14/2022 5:42:33 PM EDT
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Why Did Old Cars Not Have Passenger Side Mirrors?
https://thenewswheel.com/why-did-old-cars-not-have-passenger-side-mirrors/ 
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Posted: 6/14/2022 5:46:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The passing lane means get the fuck out the way. If you're being passed on the right, you're wrong. If you are being passed on the right - you BOTH are wrong. But yeah, don't camp in the left lane. Move it or lose it. |
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Posted: 6/14/2022 5:52:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Through Detoit on I94, the speed limit is 55mph. The slow lane does 80mph on clear traffic times. Like getting on 696, you have to get up to 80mph on the entrance ramp to have a chance at merging onto the highway.  |
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Posted: 6/14/2022 5:56:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: This. In many states, "keep right except to pass" is law. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Either trolling or retarded. This. In many states, "keep right except to pass" is law. In Mn it's called the left lane, not the passing lane. Several years ago, a state rep from outstate tried to get the keep right law passed. The reps from the Twin Cities metro opposed it because their constituents were too dumb to understand the law. So the best he could get through were signs reminding people to stay right. |
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Posted: 6/14/2022 6:12:29 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I hate to say it, but California does one thing right by installing turn-outs on two lane roads to give slower folks a place to wait. I've even seen a trooper use one to let fast people go by. Colorado has plenty of places along US24 and US50 where those would be useful for the slow-pokes with campers, but alas there are >10 mile stretches without a legal place to pass. When legal, there are 87 cars backed up I think the highways are full of meat popsicles created by an evil genius solely to piss me off. |
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Posted: 6/14/2022 6:25:45 PM EDT
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The cabin people are just the same effing Morons that hold up Twin Cites traffic Mon -> Fri.
To me, it doesn't matter how fast you are driving, if I approach, it shouldn't be a surprise, and you should get out of the way. Anytime there is room in a lane to your right, you should be there. |
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Posted: 6/14/2022 6:32:07 PM EDT
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Quoted: Seems like it implies that I go 65 in a 65 zone in the right lane but if I get close to a 60 person I pull to the left lane and pass, then get back in the right lane. I don't do this and nobody else does. I just go 78 in the left lane all the time. If someone is going 85 I might get out of their way but they can polish pass me if I don't notice them coming. But the passing lane is for doing illegal shit right? Nobody actually passes going less than the speed limit, right? So I never got this holier than thou mentality that the left lane is for passing as though nobody speeds in that lane. That shit's for lawbreaking. When i drive on I35 on a Sunday afternoon everyone is coming back from the cabin. Right lane is usually 78, left is 83. Bumper to bumper and don't f'ing slow down or you'll cause an accident. No room for this passing stuff, both lanes are packed with lawlessness. And the state troopers know not to mess with cabin people trying to get back to the cities. Just keep it floored until you hit the northern metro burbs. "rules" are a suggestion. I suggest you gtfo of the the "passing lane" & ride the middle. Right lane is for slow traffic, far left for passing/faster traffic. "Assholes don't yield, or merge" Beat it nerd  
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Posted: 6/14/2022 6:34:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm not accounting for any time for you to get from a "safe following distance" to the bumper of the car you are passing because I know you're 3ft off his bumper already. Puh-lease. You can't hypermilage draft at 3 ft. |
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Posted: 6/14/2022 6:35:57 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Do you not realize that the vehicle in front of you will take the same time and distance to come to a stop? Unless they have some new technology which will allow them to come to an instantaneous and complete stop, you will be ok. 87% of the time that works 100% of the time
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Posted: 6/14/2022 6:38:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Do you not realize that the vehicle in front of you will take the same time and distance to come to a stop? Unless they have some new technology which will allow them to come to an instantaneous and complete stop, you will be ok. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Your math doesn't make sense Googling will tell you the recommended safe following distance is 3sec. This is BS. At 60mph you cover 88fps and the average reaction time is 1.5sec. So, you've already eaten up half your following distance. This leaves 1.5sec and ~132ft to stop. The average stopping distance, of a "regular sized" vehicle is >140ft. You're going to make contact... So, lets just bump it to a 4sec following distance. (not saying this is better) If you're going to pass a vehicle, w/ a 4sec distance, at a delta of 7.3fps, at 60mph, you'll need to cover: the following distance (4*88), the length of your car (~15ft), the length of their car (~15ft), and another safe following distance (4*88). That's 206ft. At 7.3fps, it'll take >28sec to travel that distance. Do you not realize that the vehicle in front of you will take the same time and distance to come to a stop? Unless they have some new technology which will allow them to come to an instantaneous and complete stop, you will be ok. unless they collide with a car , deer, cow, boulder on the road. Then their rapid deceleration and disassembly may happen before you can react and safely stop, making you part of the multi-vehicle pile up. |
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Posted: 6/14/2022 6:40:23 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryStill a "suggestion" Do you do everything you are told to do? sheeple
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Posted: 6/14/2022 6:45:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: In Mn it's called the left lane, not the passing lane. Several years ago, a state rep from outstate tried to get the keep right law passed. The reps from the Twin Cities metro opposed it because their constituents were too dumb to understand the law. So the best he could get through were signs reminding people to stay right. "You betcha"  "The land of 10,000 left lane camping assholes"
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Posted: 6/14/2022 7:37:45 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/14/2022 8:34:33 PM EDT
[#31]
Straightforward sign.
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Posted: 6/14/2022 9:04:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yellowstone has numerous turnouts and signs that tell slower traffic to use them. Idiots going 25 in a 45 zone will cruise right by the turnouts. And exactly why are they driving 25 on the boring, nothing but scrubby pine right up to the road, no scenery, and no wildlife loooooong slogs between the pretty stuff? FFS. Nothing like leaving something fun and seeing the next stop on your planned loop is 60 miles or more away. 45 is tolerable for 60 miles in Yellowstone but 25 sucks your soul right out. I think the highways are full of meat popsicles created by an evil genius solely to piss me off. Doesn’t matter, the entrances to Yellowstone are all closed, the roads are flooded, and the bridges collapsed so pullouts will do no good. 
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Posted: 6/15/2022 2:44:05 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Either trolling or retarded. This. OP is simply trying to justify him riding the passing lane. Clearly if there are people piled up behind you then you need to GTF out of the way by moving to the right. People who justify to themselves that they belong in the left lane bc the occasionally do pass someone need a swift and enthusiastic kick in the nuts. |
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Posted: 6/15/2022 3:07:35 AM EDT
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GTFO of it after passing - not a difficult concept.
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Posted: 6/15/2022 3:12:35 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Do you not realize that the vehicle in front of you will take the same time and distance to come to a stop? Unless they have some new technology which will allow them to come to an instantaneous and complete stop, you will be ok. Did you not read reaction time and braking distance? Your reaction time starts when you realise the vehicle in front of you brakes, not when they realise they need to brake. |
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