From: cf005@FreeNet.Carleton.CA   
      
   Brent (tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS@yahoo.com) writes:   
   > On 2013-12-06, Dave Head  wrote:   
   >> On Wed, 4 Dec 2013 17:06:27 +0000 (UTC), Brent   
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>On 2013-12-03, Dave Head  wrote:   
   >>>> On Wed, 6 Nov 2013 07:22:08 -0800, "Daniel W. Rouse Jr."   
   >>>> wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>I state that slower traffic should keep one lane to the left of the right   
   >>>>>lane on any road with three or more lanes in one direction.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>The reasons are because the rightmost lane often becomes exit only or   
   there   
   >>>>>is a lane reduction closing the right lane anyway. Then slower traffic has   
   >>>>>to merge into faster traffic anyway.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>Discuss.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> This is the "correct", although maybe not strictly legal to drive   
   >>>> these roads.   
   >>>   
   >>>it's not. It's typical american patch to treat symptoms of other   
   >>>problems and thus creating more problems.   
   >>>   
   >>>> Keeping totally to the right, this stuff happens:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> 1) Everyone else that merges into traffic when entering such a roadway   
   >>>> does so at 45 mph.  You either have to brake, or move left anyway.   
   >>>   
   >>>They shouldn't be doing that. Fix this problem instead of creating   
   >>>another.   
   >   
   >> Yep.  But the only thing I have the power to do is to not get killed   
   >> by it.   The way to do that is to not be there - IOW, be a lane   
   >> over...   
   >   
   > That doesn't make it the correct way to drive, in quotes or not.   
   > Furthermore there are other ways to deal with it. They are lazy drivers,   
   > they only push as far as others will cater to them more times than not.   
   >   
   >>>> 2) If you want to move left, there  is always some moron that has   
   >>>> caught up to you and slowed down so as to occupy your blind spot   
   >>>> forever.  Eventually you are going to miss one of them and then not   
   >>>> "miss" them, and you are all going to end up into a frappin' light   
   >>>> pole...   
   >   
   >>>Again, another problem that should be dealt with instead of patched   
   >>>over.   
   >   
   >> I deal with it in the only manner I have power to.   
   >   
   > You could set your mirrors properly.   
   >   
   >>>> The right lane is for merging onto and exiting from a 3-or-more lanes   
   >>>> wide expressway, no matter what the (antiquated) laws say.   
   >   
   >>>No it's not for "merging and exiting". It's for driving.   
   >   
   >> Nope, not any more...   
   >   
   > I drive in the right lane much of the time.   
   >   
   >>>>  Driving is about survival, not obeying laws.   
   >   
   >>>In north america it's about laziness.   
   >   
   >> You go ahead and moralize all the way to the horizon, and I'll drive   
   >> to survive.   
   >   
   > You're the one moralizing your own form of lazy driving.   
   >   
   >>>One lazy driver after the other   
   >>>creating an unworkable situation as they all try to pass the required   
   >>>effort of the task on to others. The merger expects others to avoid so   
   >>>he passes the work on to the drivers in the right lane. The drivers in   
   >>>the right lane don't want to do it so they cruise one lane further left   
   >>>passing on the effort to faster traffic.... just passing the buck,   
   >>>kicking the can... laziness.  And people wonder why there is so much   
   >>>traffic congestion.   
      
      
      
   All lanes left of the right lane are for passing. If you're in them and   
   not passing... YOU'RE IN THE WRONG LANE!!!   
      
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