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   From: jollyroger@pobox.com   
      
   On 2014-03-16, T0m $herman  wrote:   
   > On 3/15/2014 5:57 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:   
   >> On 2014-03-15, T0m $herman  wrote:   
   >>> On 3/12/2014 1:46 AM, Jolly Roger wrote:   
   >>>> Straw man. Fail. I never said that at all. As I said, I rarely visit the   
   >>>> left lane, except to pass. It's often some other poor schmuck who I see   
   >>>> getting tail gated in the left lane. And you are still ignoring all the   
   >>>> other bad behavior I outlined. Wonder why?   
   >>>   
   >>> Not a poor schmuck, but either a blithering idiot or arsehole for   
   >>> blocking the passing lane.  Go to Germany and try that on the Autobahn,   
   >>> and you will soon be escorted to the side of the road by the police, who   
   >>> will then issue you a citation with a hefty fine.   
   >>>   
   >>> The passing lane blockers are more dangerous than the fast drivers, all   
   >>> else being equal.   
   >>   
   >> Is it impossible for you to imagine a case where a highway might be   
   >> fairly congested with cars in the left, middle, and right lanes? Is it   
   >> hard for you then to imagine that in that situation, where all lanes are   
   >> going approximately 55-60 mph, one car might attempt to go much faster   
   >> than the prevailing traffic? Is it then hard for you to imagine what   
   >> might happen as this fearless important individual who must go faster   
   >> than everyone else starts tailgating cars in any lane, left, middle, or   
   >> right? Let's say this individual, out of say 20 cars in the vicinity on   
   >> this crowded highway, starts tailgating people in the left lane. On this   
   >> crowded stretch of highway, what should all of the other 20 cars do for   
   >> this person? Should they all call each other and coordinate a controlled   
   >> multiple-car merge maneuver to get out of his way? Not gonna happen. So   
   >> what normally does happen is this important individual who must get past   
   >> literally every other car on the road starts behaving badly and generally   
   >> making the situation unsafe for others. I know this take a lot of brain   
   >> power to imagine, but I've seen it play out in real life; so I know for   
   >> a fact it's not so far from reality to be hard to imagine. Try it - you   
   >> can do it!   
   >>   
   > Yo Dude!  I commuted for 3 years on the North-South Freeway in Milwaukee   
   > while the Marquette Interchange was being rebuilt.  I never sat in the   
   > left lane and blocked traffic when it was flowing at 50+ mph.   
      
   I never said you did, dude. I also never said *I* do it, dude. What I   
   said, if you can keep up, is that *people* do it. And in such a   
   situation there is no fucking excuse for a driver who is upset by this   
   to drive in an unsafe manner. If you are trying to convince me that   
   unsafe driving is excusable if someone is blocking the left lane, then   
   you have failed.   
      
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