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Originally Posted by dpingram
I'm sorry this is something I have never been able to wrap my head around. If I am maintaining the posted legal speed limit and in the left lane why does someone need to pass me... unless of course they are exceeding the posted legal speed limit. How will the state troopers keep up with how many miles an individual has traveled in the left lane?
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And I have never been able to comprehend why someone would get in the left lane and stay there even driving the speed limit. It is nothing more then a power trip for them. I think these people are rude and very self centered. There are many highways in this country where if you drive the speed limit you will get run off the road. People who pull this stunt are a hazard to other drivers and are just as guilty as the people who speed. Hooray for Florida for recognizing this issue and taking action.
I set my cruise control at about 5 mph over the speed limit, stay in the right lane unless passing, and will consistently come up behind drivers in the left lane at or below the speed limit. Unless I hit the brake and hold up, or pass them on the right if other cars allow, which is another dangerous practice, they are holding up traffic flow. How many times do you see a car in the left lane that refuses to move over and several cars will be forced to pass them on the right?
Now we need a law to solve gap control at red lights. People stop at a red light, then do there nail clipping or read there e-mail or some other dumb activity so that when the light changes they allow the car in front of them to get 10 car lengths ahead before they react. If everyone maintained gap control and allowed the maximum number of cars through the light, we would save billions of gallons of fuel every year.