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• architect@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s legal and there’s things you should do. If the highway is three lanes, move the fuck over.

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  • SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As I’ve been reminded, it’s not your job to police other drivers’ behavior. 😉

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    • Zoot@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nor is it yours. Even in your own comments you admit that the left lane is the passing lane. If someone is behind you, you’re slower traffic. You’re obligated to move over, and you’re in the wrong if you do not.

      What is it with you power freaks that just have to enact control by fucking with other people? Find a better way to get a rage boner.

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• sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you have slower traffic keep right, and there is no one to the right of the slower moving car, shouldn’t they keep right in that case?

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  • SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No, not if they’re travelling at about the speed limit.

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    • tmyakal@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It is also illegal to stay in the left lane when other people are speeding. If they are going faster than you, you are by definition slower traffic and obliged to keep to the right.

      Your job as a driver is not to police other drivers’ behaviors. It’s not even to follow the letter of the law. It’s to operate the vehicle safely. Creating obstacles for other people because you don’t think they should drive so fast is not a safe action.

      Really, we need to collectively get rid of the idea of a “fast lane.” The left lane is a passing lane. You should only be in it when you’re attempting to pass someone, and when the pass is complete, you should move over.

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      • SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’d just point out, as in my original comment, that is incorrect in Wisconsin. It is perfectly legal to drive at the speed limit in the left lane here. We don’t have any notion of a passing lane in state law.

        Out of courtesy, I stay to the right, but almost every semi is doing 65MPH when the limit is 70MPH, the adaptive-cruise people hanging behind them are even slower. So, I pass them. Interestingly, by following the speed limit, I’ll encounter maybe one or two left-lane campers in a four-hour highway trip. It would seem that the people trying to police the behavior of slower (than they’d like) drivers in fast or passing lane are the greater problem.

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      • LurkingLuddite@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Minor correction: It is sadly not illegal in some states to stay in the left lanes.

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    • WoodScientist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Eh, I see nothing wrong with passing on the right. If you’re driving correctly, it shouldn’t even be possible for someone to pass you on the right.

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      • SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Exceeding the speed limit is still not legal.

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• waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Completely legal doesn’t mean you aren’t a dick for doing it

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  • SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sometimes you gotta pass speed-governed semis and adaptive-cruise folks; I’m not worried about criminals’ opinions of me.

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    • TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m not worried about criminals’ opinions of me.

      Lmao this would be a great bit if you weren’t serious

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      • SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Thank you!

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• too_high_for_this@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So you’re the person who stays in the left lane with a mile of cars behind you?

  Do everyone else a favor and stay off the highway.

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  • SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Lol, no.

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• WoodScientist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You need to have your drivers license taken away. Cops openly brag about being able to pull people over whenever they want. They can do this because there are so many rules of the road, that it is literally impossible to drive without violating them.

  So really, drop the bullshit “but it’s illegal!!!” cope. You violate the law every time you get on the road. Traffic laws are written to be selectively enforced. You make it illegal to speed and then leave it to officer discretion.

  Hell, I say we throw you in jail for life. If every law was enforced against everyone who violates them, then everyone would be in jail for life.

  You’ve committed enough crimes to get yourself locked away for life. Perhaps you shouldn’t appeal to the law so readily.

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  • SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You raise a valid point about how our legal system can be used as a tool of oppression. However, in practice, the State Patrol here are generally pretty ethical, and they pull people over for speeding and reckless driving most of the time. Never for obeying the speed limit.

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