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   From: jollyroger@pobox.com   
      
   On 2014-03-11, Lewis  wrote:   
   >   
   > If you drive 55mph where the flow of traffic is 70mph then *you* are a   
   > hazard. Many of those idiots you see are trying to avoid an   
   > un-anticipated impediment.   
      
   Depends very much on the circumstance. What if the speed limit is 55?   
   What if there are multiple flows of traffic - some obeying the speed   
   limit, and others not? Very often, I'll be driving with cruise control   
   set to 55-60 in the middle lane of a 3-lane highway where the posted   
   speed limit is 55, where most of the cars around me are doing similar   
   speeds (again, around 55-60), and a group of cars (usually anywhere from   
   2 to 6 cars) will come up from behind driving significantly faster than   
   55 (sometimes 15-25 miles faster (yes: 75-85 mph in a 55), speeding much   
   faster than the traffic around me), usually with one or two idiots   
   leading the pack in some sort of apparent race to see who can get   
   wherever faster. Inevitably one or more drivers in the speeding group   
   gets upset that the drivers in my group are "in their way", usually in   
   various lanes (almost never just the left lane), and start tailgating   
   and using aggressive and fast lane switching maneuvers in all three   
   lanes, often making double-lane-switches without signalling within a few   
   feet of other cars and pulling other dangerous stunts to get past these   
   "slow" drivers that are imposing such an inconvenience on their little   
   racing game as quickly as possible, safety be damned. In such a   
   situation, I'd typically like to gradually decrease my speed, and make   
   safe lane changes to the right to get as far away from the idiots as   
   possible, if and when such opportunities safely become available.   
   Unfortunately, very often, due to the tailgating aggressive behavior of   
   the speeding group, there isn't a good opportunity to do that until   
   *after* they've finished making their dangerous maneuvers and sped on   
   past. I'm probably one of the last people who will just gleefully   
   increase my speed to match the speed of the idiot group when I see them   
   coming in my rear view mirror - especially if I'm not in the passing   
   lane and I'm already at or exceeding the posted limit, and the cars   
   around me are doing the same speed as me. Nor am I going to quickly or   
   dangerously make lane changes just to get out of their way to make their   
   dangerous behavior easier for them to continue. Safety comes first, and   
   I naturally value the safety of the well-behaved drivers around me more   
   than speeding jackasses. BTW, this isn't a cherry-picked example   
   situation - it happens *all* *the* *time* on American highways.   
      
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