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• architect@thelemmy.club ⁨36⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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 ⁨25⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

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

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• sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

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

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    • tmyakal@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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 ⁨27⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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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• waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

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

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  • SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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 ⁨42⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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 ⁨24⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Thank you!

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