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Old 02-24-2024, 04:14 PM
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Default I don’t get it.

I’m sorry, but I don’t see how this bill changes anything, except to provide ticket funding to the state. It doesn’t seem to force slow drivers out of the left lane on the highways and it punishes anyone trying to pass that slow driver. I, too, try to stay in the center lane, but coming home from Tampa recently, my vision was totally blocked over and over again by semitrailers. It pretty much forced me off cruise control, because I had to pass them on the left every 5 minutes. I agree with another poster that posting signs saying “keep right except for passing” is better for the public.

I rarely pass on the right - too risky. Long ago, I saw a guy in a pickup weaving through traffic on a 6 lane highway that was preparing to split into two directions. I was in the far right lane and saw a cars ahead suddenly braking and weaving left and right. Turns out a sofa and mattress had fallen onto the road. I slowed and moved left, too. The speeding, weaving truck had run up to me as I braked, so he revved up to zip past me as I moved left. He’s suddenly confronted with the furniture and swerves to the shoulder. Didn’t make it; flipped the truck several revolutions.