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ramble81@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not every street has multiple lanes

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  • millie@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If I’m on a road that isn’t the highway and someone is tailgating me I literally just pull over and wave them by. Same with people blasting me with their high beams. It is infinitely safer.

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• pjwestin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yes, in theory, everyone should be in the middle lane at all times except when actively passing the car in front of them, and they shouldn’t use the right lane as a, “fast lane.” In practice, virtually everyone uses the passing lane as a fast lane, and dropping in and out of the right lane over and over again is going to create more traffic than just staying in your lane.

  Sure, if someone is barely going faster than the middle lane, and there’s no one in front of them, then they’re being a lane hog and need to move over. But if there are multiple cars in the passing lane, all going significantly faster than the middle lane, then that’s just the speed of traffic and you need to accept that. Just because the passing lane isn’t passing as fast as you’d like, that doesn’t mean you’re justified in forcing a car to change lanes every 50 feet.

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  • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Exactly. There’s a difference between ideal operation and practical reality. In reality, three-lane highways induce three lanes full of cars. And if I’m going 80 in a 60 in the left lane, the guy behind me going 90 can fucking relax. Likewise I’m not getting bent out of shape by the guy in front of me going 80.

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    • pjwestin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, and if you want to be even more technical, most states only allow you to go 10 to 15 mph over the speed limit when passing, and then expect you to return to the middle lane and resume driving the speed limit when done. Some don’t even allow that exception, which means you can (presumably) only use the left lane if the car in front of you is driving slower than the speed limit. No one uses the lanes this way, least of all the people who justify tailgating because, “the left lane is for passing.” If the left lane is going significantly faster than middle lane, as you said, “fucking relax.”

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  • Gadwin100@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The driving lane is the rightmost lane. All other lanes on the left of it are for passing. Do not just cruise in the middle lane. You exacerbate the problem.

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    • pjwestin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No, that is not correct. The rightmost lane is for slower vehicles and exiting. The middle lane is often called the travel lane because it’s the one you’re meant to be in when cruising.

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      • Gadwin100@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yes so then in areas of height limited lanes where there are 3 lanes, a semi-truck can only travel in the middle lane unless exiting or entering? Makes total sense…

        I suppose on a 2 lane everyone travels in the left lane, because the right one is to exit and enter too. Yup. No existence of a merging lane designed to get up to the speed of flowing traffic. Nope.

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• doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you think this post is about being tailgated in the passing lane, instead of the crazy amount of (usually truck) drivers that tailgate in every lane and on every road, then it’s very likely you are the problem being discussed.

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• Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  don’t know why you’re getting downvoted for this. probably because lemmy is full of children that never learned how to drive.

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