Audi Caravan

[Marc Swanson]

> If you are in the left lane and don't move over for a
> faster car, you are impeding traffic and you are in the wrong.
> You don't own the road, you only rent it. Very little irritates me more than
> people who dawdle in the left lane and refuse to move over. If 80 mph is
> 'your safe zone' for speeding you can do it in the right lane just as easy
> and move to the left when it comes time to pass... Instead you feel its your
> right to impose it on other people. If you are in a state with a law against
> passing on the right (most), you have just made the other guy either break
> another traffic law or hold himself to your standards of what is the correct
> speed on the highway.


While I mostly agree with you, some tolerance needs to be given for
situations where say, traffic in the left lane is moving at 60 on a
65mph 2 lanes each direction road and you move over to pass at say 75.
As you are passing say 2 or 3 cars doing 60 some traffic flies up at
well over 75... say 95 or 100.  Is the guy passing on the left at 75 in
the wrong for staying in the left lane long enough to execute his pass
and then move over?  I certainly agree that everyone should make use of
their rear view mirror and exercise common courtesy when
travelling/passing in the left lane but you shouldn't expect everybody
to floor it and complete their pass to get out of your way 5 seconds
faster than otherwise....


my $0.02

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Marc Swanson, Software Engineer
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Hartford, CT

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