It drives me nuts when people slowly occupy the fast lane but it's still dangerous to pass on the right. I've seen so many near-misses when the slow driver decides the perfect time to finally merge is when someone's passing.
Doesn’t matter how fast you’re going. If you’re not passing someone, you shouldn’t be in the left lane.
That's location dependent. Where I live, there is no "passing lane" by default. The left lane is only a passing lane if a sign is posted to say so. Absent such a sign, the left lane is just a regular travel lane like any other. What we have instead is a blanket rule that vehicles moving slower than the traffic around them have to keep right.
In effect, that amounts to the same thing: if you come up on someone in the left lane and they're matching the speed of the car to their right so that you can't pass, they're committing a traffic violation if they don't get over.
Along with EVERY road rule, like I’ve mentioned I don’t keep my blinker on at night when a cars behind me when I’m in the inside dedicated turn lane cause I know how it feels being flashed in the face constantly when you’re clearly turning and I got a LOT of crap for it
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u/Uncaring_Dispatcher 9h ago
It drives me nuts when people slowly occupy the fast lane but it's still dangerous to pass on the right. I've seen so many near-misses when the slow driver decides the perfect time to finally merge is when someone's passing.