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   From: jollyroger@pobox.com   
      
   On 2014-03-15, Your Name wrote:   
   > In article , T0m $herman   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 3/11/2014 1:27 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:   
   >> > 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   
   >>   
   >> Why are you not in the right lane if going slower than traffic?   
   >   
   > In my experience, the only people who "pull up behind me" when I'm in   
   > the "fast" lane (in free-flowing traffic conditions) are those   
   > obviously exceeding the speed limit.   
      
   As I already said above, I wasn't in the fast lane of traffic. I was in   
   the middle lane. I almost never visit the fast lane, except briefly to   
   pass someone who is going slower than I in the middle or right lane.   
      
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