The correct way to refer to the left lane is “the passing lane”
Get in it. Pass someone. Get the fuck back out. If you aren’t passing, you have no business in the passing lane, simple.
No one else in the world matters but me
Submitted 1 day ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Fecundpossum@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Landless2029@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Passing lanes are only a thing when there is nearly no traffic.
As soon as you have enough cars it’s now a full lane. Try driving near any major city that gets stop and go.
snackwifi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This used to annoy me, but after realizing how many road deaths there are every year, I now see speed reduction as almost always a good thing. Driving is one of the most dangerous things people do.
groats_survivor@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
On the freeway, good driving habits, like lane discipline, is more safe than reducing speed from 70mph to 65mph
Valmond@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Speed kills.
Just an example of a car pedestrian accident: at 50km/h the pedestrian dies more often than survives.
At 30km/h, only 3% dies.
I know this isn’t highway speeds, and the example is for the city, but I remember Volvo explaining it’s nearly impossible to die in their cars up to 70km/h (or close, like 68) but over that there is just too much energy at play.
Also how many seconds are you earning when slightly-speeding? Not very much if you don’t drive the highway for hours and hours.
Thank you for reading my ramblings.
Allero@lemmy.today 11 hours ago
You should do both.
beegnyoshi@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
I think you should still be annoyed. By riding slowly in the fast lane, you are not encouraging people to ride more slowly; you are encouraging them to zip around the lanes which is extremely dangerous too. Further, many people might see a need to compensate for whatever speed they lost and accelerate even more. I would say that it is definitely not a good thing to do, not to mention that I don’t think that it is even legal in my country
JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
fast lane
It’s a passing lane, not a fast lane.
webp@mander.xyz 18 hours ago
It’s illegal to speed in my country
kn33@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is more dangerous than doing it the correct way
snackwifi@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
False, it is actually the case that collisions are LESS deadly at slower speeds. I know it’s difficult to wrap your mind around, but science is sometimes unintuitive!
FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yea, but you can do that in the slow lane. Some of us are risking our lives out here /s
taiyang@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not very many accidents out in the middle of nowhere highways, although in my experience last holiday season there wasn’t a single jabroni hogging the left lane. Granted, I usually drive everyone back at like 1 am, so mileage may vary.
You’re absolutely right in the middle of the city though, and the number of people who get angry at you for not going 60 on a 40 mph blvd is way higher than it should be. I got honked at and a guy swerved around me just got both of us to get stuck at the same red. Those are the people who will certainly kill pedestrians.
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 1 day ago
WALLACE@feddit.uk 23 hours ago
Fuck yeah trains! Three times the price of driving and takes an hour longer on the rare occasions where it actually turns up on time!
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 22 hours ago
Three times the price of driving
Sure, because in addition to a train ticket price, you have to pay train fuel, train insurance, train maintainance, train devaluation, and when you get to the destination, you have to pay to park the train.
WereCat@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Tell me you’re from UK without telling me you’re from UK
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Luckily, I don’t live in the USA. So that doesn’t apply to me.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Maybe you had a bad experience with trains on your area, but I move equally fast on train than in car (taking account waiting the train and fighting for a parking space) for long distances… for my daily routine i waist a little more of time xause i have to walk 1 km from the station.
About the price… yep, the car is cheaper once you paid the initial investment.
I pay around 240 us$ anually to move to work by train (4 km).
On a car (diesel, local prices, 6,5 L/100 Km consumption) i would be paying 147 US$ just on gas. On that i have to add fees, taxes, repairment and parking…
Conclusion: bike/motorbike besto transporto
GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 12 hours ago
Speak for yourself, taking a train is way faster than driving for most mid-distance trips I ever take, and the money I save by not owning a car is absolutely massive.
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 11 hours ago
Netherlands?
Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Three times the price? Where you get train tickets that cheap? cries in VIA Rail
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
70 year old: But I am fast.
Ole10@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This post was made by a BMW
SuluBeddu@feddit.it 1 day ago
People on busses: “OK this trip lasts 2 hours, we started moving at 8:15 so by 10:15 we should get there”
Same people while driving: “If I don’t very slowly overtake this car that for the past 10 seconds has been driving slightly slower than I’d like to, I’ll never get there”
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I think the people with this mentality are probably the same people who refuse to ride buses under any circumstances.
SuluBeddu@feddit.it 11 hours ago
And me, I’m among the people who are relaxed on a bus but uselessly stressed on the road 🫣
7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Man… Drove down i40 (in the southern United States) yesterday. Those folks that just camp out in the left lane are infuriating. I have ticket money and “points” on my license to spend. Move over.
But apparently turning the wheel slightly to the right and back again is too much to ask.
My ex wife was a left lane camper. She would point to a semi a mile ahead and say… “I’m going faster than them… Why should I love over?” Meanwhile cars are flashing lights and passing her on the right…
One of the multitudes of reasons why she’s an ex.
webp@mander.xyz 18 hours ago
Fast is a social construct
lemming741@lemmy.world 1 day ago
ticketclinicgeorgia.com/…/georgias-slow-poke-law-…
if you’re in the left lane and notice a faster car approaching from behind, you’re legally required to move over to the right lane to let them pass.
Georgia isn’t alone in implementing such regulations. States like Florida, Indiana, New Jersey, and Tennessee have enacted similar “left-lane” laws aimed at preventing drivers from unnecessarily occupying the passing lane.
ArfArfWoof@feddit.org 17 hours ago
Where I’m from (somewhere in europe), you’re legally required to be in the rightmost lane unless you are overtaking. Though as you would expect, many don’t care.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 day ago
Good. There used to be signs on major roads for slower traffic to stay right, but it was more of a notice than a hard law. And that's the real issue, a law is only as good as its enforcement, and if everyone is doing all sorts of things wrong there's only so many that can be pulled over at once.
kurikai@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That “Keep Right/Left” unless overtaking rule is stupid. It fails as soon as there is: an off/onramp, a speed limit, more than 2 lanes. It causes cars to break other road rules.
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Learn to merge. When the exit ramp comes and the right lane slows, pass in the left lane and move the fuck back. You know what happens when you left lane camp, road rage and everyone speeds up to zoom in the right lane causing a danger to everyone els. Because your ass can’t merge and feel you’re special to be in the left lane does not mean you’re right for thinking you’re doing the speed limit. If someone wants to go fast pass you, you’re not the traffic police to block them and cause the speeder to road rage even more. Left lane camping causes road rage and is unsafe.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s curious you’re so concerned about the speed limit but so flippant about breaking another clearly stated law about how you’re supposed to operate your vehicle.
kurikai@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I’m saying the keep left/right rule on motorways conflicts with other rules. That’s why that rule fails
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Found the American.
Don’t tell him that in some countries it’s illegal to undertake!
0ops@piefed.zip 1 day ago
It’s illegal in a lot of the US too (depends on the state), but it’s never enforced
kurikai@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Not American. Yeah illegal to undertake. But go on a motorway and see the keep left/right rule fail almost instantly.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 day ago
What other rules would be broken? I can't think of one. Sometimes you have to adjust your speed. You should always be looking ahead to anticipate if a lane change would cause a problem.
The funny thing is that there is so much anxiety and rage built over being a bit faster or first in line, and yet most of the time all the anger at being stuck in a lane or slow is an illusion as the entire traffic mass is moving at the speed limit or higher. It is just your relative perception and you'll still get to your destination at the same time.
The same thing happens in slow traffic. People spend so much energy trying to weave back and forth between lanes, almost causing collisions, only to stop a few feet again.
Luci@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
You got a bumper, show them who’s boss! (It’s you! Ram them!)
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dan69@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is like asking good questions when everyone doesn’t care about the scenario.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 18 hours ago
Every video of someone getting cut off and brake checked (don’t do that, you are still an asshole!) ,I wonder if this isn’t exactly what they were doing.
Allero@lemmy.today 11 hours ago
Fast lane is for driving at the speed limit. If the front driver goes by the limit, you hold no right to complain.
Do not normalize speeding.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
Where I’m from, it’s not called a fast lane. It’s called a passing lane and that is its purpose. If you’re not passing someone, move the fuck over.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 3 hours ago
Where I’m from you’re still limited to the speed limit when passing.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Jump through a portal to a Lovecraftian torture dimension, you utter fucking lummox.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
No lol