So.... driving in the left lane will soon get ya a ticket!!

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“Forces faster drivers to make dangerous moves and pass on the right” is the presupposition I have issue with.

Nobody is forcing anyone to make dangerous moves. They could just slow down, right? So saying that everyone needs to move over so speeders can speed in the left lane in the name of “safety” is kinda funny.

Why don’t we just crack down on speeding and unsafe “maneuvers”? Those are far less subjective than whether or not someone is “impeding” the left lane.

If Im not mistaken, speeders are still being ticketed. The fact remains that driving slower in the left lane is illegal, disrupts traffic and ultimately makes the roads more dangerous than people speeding. I think it's kind of funny that people think because someone else is speeding (being unsafe), it justifies them making the roads even more unsafe by impeding traffic in the left lane. Nobody is forcing them not to drive in the right lane.

Both activities are against the law. Both are unsafe. One is statistically more unsafe than the other, yet the justification for doing it is that some don't understand the logic for why it's illegal. Huh? Talk about logic that is hard to follow.
 

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But again you’re implying that driving in the left lane is inherently unsafe. It’s not. It’s apparently unsafe, according to your links, because of other people’s reactions to it.

Speeding is the cause of the majority of traffic fatalities IIRC. Nobody is forcing them/you to speed and make unsafe maneuvers.

Sounds kind of like the gun control argument: Well we have to ban guns because a few people make bad choices with them.

So we have to create another subjective traffic law to accommodate the few roided out drivers who can’t drive the speed limit or wait a few minutes while a car in the left lane overtakes the semi ahead in the right lane?

Like I said. I use the left lane when I need to. The arguments just sound funny.
 

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Our highway system is based on the German autobahn system. They have unlimited speed limits there but we still have speed limits here. Why? Because over THERE people are taught to watch their mirrors and move the hell over when a Porsche doing 140 comes up behind you and ANTICIPATE the need to move out of the way. Unfortunately, HERE we have drivers who set the cruise control and zone out, don't want to drive in the right lane because it's bumpy, they're self-absorbed dicks who think it's up to them to keep you from speeding, whatever the reason... Some of you don't want another law because freedom. Fine. Yet, it's the left lane campers who caused this law to happen, not the speeders. If nobody camped out in the left lane, maybe there wouldn't be a need for speed limits at all and we would be MORE free.
 

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Our highway system is based on the German autobahn system. They have unlimited speed limits there but we still have speed limits here. Why? Because over THERE people are taught to watch their mirrors and move the hell over when a Porsche doing 140 comes up behind you and ANTICIPATE the need to move out of the way. Unfortunately, HERE we have drivers who set the cruise control and zone out, don't want to drive in the right lane because it's bumpy, they're self-absorbed dicks who think it's up to them to keep you from speeding, whatever the reason... Some of you don't want another law because freedom. Fine. Yet, it's the left lane campers who caused this law to happen, not the speeders. If nobody camped out in the left lane, maybe there wouldn't be a need for speed limits at all and we would be MORE free.

If we could do 140 I’d have a different car and wouldn’t give a **** about left or right lane ..... what I have noticed is that while in the left lane (on the BA today) and heading to downtown Tulsa it was hard to find a groove to move right to take an exit with all the he clutter in the right lanes....... just saying it was noticeable.
 
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Funny that the guy obeying the speed limit who might be in the left lane is a “self absorbed dick” but the guy who is speeding, tailgating, and expecting everyone else to get out of his way is the victim lol.

So we must obey this new law, because it’s the law, but those who are speeding in the left lane don’t? They get to have more laws written to accommodate and enable their behavior?

Talk about privileged snowflakes lol.
 

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The law doesn’t apply when passing. So that’s a red herring.

The law also doesn’t mention speeding at all. So that’s another red herring.

The only applies to relative speed. If you are going faster than someone else you use the left lane to pass them. Or, if conditions allow, you allow someone going faster than you to go around in the left lane.

Traffic safety is based on far more than speed alone.

I would actually argue that many/most other traffic safety rules are independent of speed. The role of speed in traffic safety is relative.
 

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Ah, but it doesn’t say “someone else” it says “normal flow of traffic” doesn’t it?

Define normal flow of traffic. I’m sure that’s more than one angry OSA poster blasting down the hammer lane.
 

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Funny that the guy obeying the speed limit who might be in the left lane is a “self absorbed dick” but the guy who is speeding, tailgating, and expecting everyone else to get out of his way is the victim lol.

So we must obey this new law, because it’s the law, but those who are speeding in the left lane don’t? They get to have more laws written to accommodate and enable their behavior?

Talk about privileged snowflakes lol.

For the record....... I am a self absorbed dick in either lane ........
 

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Are the majority of automobile fatalities caused by speeding? Its been stated and repeated. Traffic safety laws are silly. Let’s get rid of speed limits. Just because some jackasses don’t know how to drive, why do the rest of us have to suffer? It’s just like gun laws, exactly like it.
 

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