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110%er [7980]
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lets take simple good driving etiquette
Feb 26, 2013, 9:14 AM
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and make it a law.
What next, its a law to yield to the right at a multi stop intersection?
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All-TigerNet [11208]
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^^^thinks it's his turn to go at 4way. It is not.^^^***
Feb 26, 2013, 9:37 AM
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Oculus Spirit [82018]
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Better someone just be assertive than the whole awkward
Feb 26, 2013, 11:24 AM
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wait, is it my turn, no you can go, oh I can go, okay, wait, now you're going routine.
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Orange Blooded [4712]
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It's NEEDED in FLORIDA.
Feb 26, 2013, 9:17 AM
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Amirite?
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110%er [8243]
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legislating dooshyness.
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CU Medallion [54759]
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that picture alone is giving me a
Feb 26, 2013, 9:38 AM
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semi-rage-bonar
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110%er [8243]
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imagine being car #2 for 7 miles.
Feb 26, 2013, 9:41 AM
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Oculus Spirit [75895]
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Car #2 is also a #######. No call for being that close.
Feb 26, 2013, 9:51 AM
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When the deer jump out in front of car #1 it is going to make the situation that much worse.
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Oculus Spirit [79506]
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########, ride in the left lane and see if I don't give you
Feb 26, 2013, 9:53 AM
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an aero push to try and move you along. If you don't like being tailgated, speed up or move over.
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If I am passing and you get on my ###, I'll slow down.***
Feb 26, 2013, 9:55 AM
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Oculus Spirit [79506]
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This is rarely the scenario, even so, if you are passing
Feb 26, 2013, 9:57 AM
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make sure it takes less than 5 minutes. If you're only going a couple of mph faster than the car in the middle lane, you don't need to be passing in the first place. Yield to the faster driver.
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Legend [17753]
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Oh definitely. Gotta be moving in the left. At the same time
Feb 26, 2013, 9:59 AM
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though sometimes the dude in the right lane decides to speed up and mark time with you so you can't move over. That's a #### move also.
But it happens especially in hilly places like the last few miles of 85 in SC going into GA.
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Oculus Spirit [75895]
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You aren't really accomplishing anything when you do that.
Feb 26, 2013, 9:57 AM
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The person will either get over when they pass the person on the right or they'll think they are accomplishing something by going slow and pissing you off.
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Rock Defender [54]
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depends on the car you're in. A Mini convertible won't
Feb 26, 2013, 9:58 AM
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encourage many people to move over. a 1976 Dodge Power Wagon filling the rear view mirror tends to inspire people.
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All-TigerNet [11208]
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Dude!!! I always wanted a Power Wagon.
Feb 26, 2013, 10:01 AM
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Loved the look but, knew .....deep down, that it was still a Dodge and therefore, as pos.
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Oculus Spirit [79506]
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Except, a lot of people don't get over after they pass...
Feb 26, 2013, 10:00 AM
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They continue on the same slow ### pace as before, also continuing to block traffic and hold me up. They're also oblivious to anything around them 90% of the time. However, sometimes if you do get on them, they'll realize it and get flustered, leading to them getting over. Sure, they may give you a mean look, but they're the ####### in the first place. I don't care, there is no debate, yield to the faster driver. Period.
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Oculus Spirit [75895]
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Nobody said don't yield to the faster driver.
Feb 26, 2013, 10:09 AM
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I'm saying getting up on them like you are their drafting partner is asking for a lot to go wrong. You don't need to be 3 car lengths behind them either. The best is when there are 3 cars in the left lane and car #3 thinks riding #2's ### is going to help #1 go faster.
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See, you're part of the problem too........when you come up
Feb 26, 2013, 10:13 AM
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on these I-85 left lane trains......the slow car up at the front of the line is clearly the biggest tool, but then behind him you have 9 or 10 cars clearly content to just ride behind him for 10 or 20 miles until the lead driver gets an epiphany or takes his exit. Those people could go around the slow driver too, but they don't, and the chain just gets longer.
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Oculus Spirit [79506]
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I wish I could give this more points...
Feb 26, 2013, 10:16 AM
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Left lane drivers need to unite, and fight against this horrid highway tyranny. I propose different classes of license, you pass a rigorous driving test and you become eligible to drive in the 80 mph+ lane(left lane). Otherwise, MOVE OVER.
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All-TigerNet [11208]
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I think we should do away with traffic laws.
Feb 26, 2013, 10:19 AM
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May the "best" diver win.
*LET'S GET IT ON!!!!
*not Marvin Gaye style
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Oculus Spirit [79506]
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I'm good with that...
Feb 26, 2013, 10:22 AM
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I bet I can beat anyone from Greenville to Clemson as is, though.
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Rock Defender [54]
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Obed's record, from Mauldin Hall to JL Mann...
Feb 26, 2013, 10:35 AM
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sub 30 minutes. One of those "how the hell did I survive that" moments that you look back on.
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Oculus Spirit [75895]
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Where in the blue hell are yall driving that this happens
Feb 26, 2013, 10:25 AM
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for more than a mile or so? When I see traffic this heavy, nobody is going the speed limit.
And oh yeah, when I do see you back there and get the chance to move over, get the #### on past me. Worse than being tailgated is doing the right thing and moving over for somebody, then having to brake because Mr. Right lane is going slow and Mr. Left lane is decides not to pass fast enough.
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Oculus Spirit [79506]
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I-85 in the upstate every day from Pelham Rd. to
Feb 26, 2013, 10:30 AM
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Anderson. And then continues on 76 all the way into Clemson.
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Oculus Spirit [75895]
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Makes it sound like I don't want to come back that way.
Feb 26, 2013, 10:37 AM
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When 26 and 526 are bad here, they are just bad. You may be able to maneuver a bit, but not much. 61 and Glenn McConnell aren't your traditional 4 lane roads. One those, I want people get pick the lane they need and stay there. The fast drivers in the Left land don't mix with the people making left turns across the highway, gets messy.
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Oculus Spirit [79506]
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The problem arise at Pelham with traffic merging and
Feb 26, 2013, 10:43 AM
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Woodruff with people getting off the interstate. That backs up traffic for miles, and makes anything more than 50 mph impossible. Once you get past that it's a never ending deluge of morons in the left hand lane, which starts to thin out at exit 34 since it is on the left side of the interstate. However on at least 3 out of 5 days a week this left hand lane traffic persists well into Anderson, and upon hoping onto 76, you find the same left hand lane people, despite the "Slower Traffic Keep Right" signs posted ever mile and a half or so. Sometimes god will open up the middle or far right lane and you can pass everyone, but that is a rare occurrence. I deal with this everyday, so I'm pretty passionate about it.
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Oculus Spirit [75895]
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Fine, we condone your hitting between 2 and 3 of
Feb 26, 2013, 10:46 AM
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these people to teach them a lesson. Between Perimeter Road and Anderson, normal speed based lane choices should apply with one or two exceptions and traffic lights in LaFrance.
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Oculus Spirit [82018]
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Seriously? I see it all the time on every interstate I've
Feb 26, 2013, 11:31 AM
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ever driven on. I'll ride their ### for 5 miles then I'll start flashing my lights, and I'll swerve into the right lane, flick them off, and cut them off if I can.
I am a very safe driver, but I drive 10-13mph over the speed limit on interstates.
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Oculus Spirit [75895]
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I just don't see it for long distances.
Feb 26, 2013, 12:10 PM
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The times I'm on the interstate are either choked down with nobody going over 70 or pretty well wide open.
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Oculus Spirit [79506]
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When you're driving hundreds of miles, it makes a difference***
Feb 26, 2013, 11:07 AM
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All-In [26968]
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When's the last time you were behind someone in the
Feb 26, 2013, 11:08 AM
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Left lane for "hundreds of miles"?
I thought one mile was a stretch...usually you can get around them more quickly than that.
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Oculus Spirit [79506]
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Couple of weeks ago...
Feb 26, 2013, 11:10 AM
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Greenville to Birmingham, left hand laners almost the entire trip.
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All-In [26968]
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I find that extremely hard to believe,
Feb 26, 2013, 11:12 AM
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Unless you're trying to go way above the speed limit.
But I guess I'll have to take your word for it.
I still wouldn't put by own safety, and others, in danger, by getting right up on someone's bumper.
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Oculus Spirit [79506]
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You don't drive much, do you?***
Feb 26, 2013, 11:13 AM
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All-In [26968]
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Every day...***
Feb 26, 2013, 11:16 AM
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Oculus Spirit [79506]
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Just because you do something everyday, doesn't mean
Feb 26, 2013, 11:18 AM
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you do it a lot. I'm guessing under 50 miles per day. I've got a feeling you may be a left laner, too.
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All-In [26968]
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No way...I can't stand when people drive slow in the left
Feb 26, 2013, 11:20 AM
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Lane.
We just disagree on how to deal with it. I'm never in a big enough hurry to get mad about it, or put my safety in jeopardy. I just pass them on the right when I get a chance, which is usually pretty quickly, if not immediately.
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So that would add 31.8 minutes to my trip from
Feb 26, 2013, 11:07 AM
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Greenville to Charleston. I think that time would be better spent IN Charleston rather than TO Charleston.
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You're thinking you'll be behind one person in a left lane
Feb 26, 2013, 11:08 AM
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For an entire trip to Charleston?
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110%er [8243]
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I have been stuck behind 1 person for more than
Feb 26, 2013, 11:14 AM
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20 miles in recent memory. That was between Gaffney and Charlotte. The only reason I got out from behind that person is because I gave up, and pulled off the interstate to take back roads.
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All-In [26968]
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I don't understand how that can happen.
Feb 26, 2013, 11:17 AM
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For 20 miles, you were behind one person, with not one single opportunity to get around them? That boggles my mind. I don't think I've ever been behind one person for more than a mile or two, unless I wanted to be.
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110%er [8243]
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A semi in each lane.***
Feb 26, 2013, 11:22 AM
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All-In [26968]
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I can understand that, but I've just never experienced
Feb 26, 2013, 11:23 AM
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That sort of duration. I would just chalk it up to the Lord wanting me to slow down. No reason to get all road raged about it.
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110%er [8243]
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I don't get road raged about it, I do want some enforcement
Feb 26, 2013, 11:24 AM
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to the Slower Traffic Keep Right rule.
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My original reply above was in response
Feb 26, 2013, 11:26 AM
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To someone boasting about how they would get right up on their bumper and move them. That's what my whole participation in this has been about, at least from my perspective.
If you're in that much of a hurry to make you do that, you just need to leave earlier.
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110%er [8243]
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Ah. Yeah, I don't tailgate. I do drive well over the
Feb 26, 2013, 11:29 AM
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speed limit.
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Same here.***
Feb 26, 2013, 11:29 AM
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Oculus Spirit [79506]
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It's not so much about being in a hurry...
Feb 26, 2013, 11:30 AM
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It's more about driving style. What's close to some people isn't close to me, and sometimes that's the only way to get peoples attention.
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Isn't slower traffice already advised to keep right?
Feb 26, 2013, 9:24 AM
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Is that just a suggestion or are we now creating laws for existing laws?
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its a law in virginia
Feb 26, 2013, 9:25 AM
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I've only seen 1 person get pulled over for it. A cop was going pretty fast in the left lane and car just sat in front of him for about a mile then the cop pulled him over.
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95N between Richmond and DC is backwards.
Feb 26, 2013, 9:28 AM
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The left lane is packed and the slowest lane. The middle is for travelling and the right is for passing. You gotta do a lot of swerving if you want to keep up 70mph.
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This is stoopid
Feb 26, 2013, 9:26 AM
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Although I agree with it in principle, how could it be reasonable enforced? You can ride in the left lane all day long, and as soon as you see a cop just put the blinker on and get over one lane. Plus, don't we have better things for the cops to worry about?
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Drives slow in the left lane^^^^^^
Feb 26, 2013, 9:31 AM
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My insurance agent says "Incorrect"***
Feb 26, 2013, 9:39 AM
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^^^Left Lane Driver.***
Feb 26, 2013, 9:32 AM
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just get over already there is a 10 car backup behind you***
Feb 26, 2013, 9:33 AM
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No, we don't. Left lane driving causes most of the
Feb 26, 2013, 9:39 AM
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traffic backup you see on the interstate during rush hour. If people would just get over after passing and not feel like they had to go the same speed as the people in the middle lane traffic would flow much better. It is easily enforced, I see cops sitting on the side of the high way all of the time, when they see someone parked in the left lane, pull their ### over. Left lane driving should take priority over speeding tickets.
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I rarely agree with newly proposed laws, but this
Feb 26, 2013, 9:32 AM
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one would get me to consider moving to GA.
I gotta admit though, I thought it already was against the law and cops just preferred writing more lucrative speeding tickets.
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true. I got a ticket for 'failure to keep right' once
Feb 26, 2013, 10:01 AM
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however, it was better than the 75 in a 55 w/ no seatbelt i could've gotten ticketed for...
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Here or in NJ? I have never heard of anyone getting
Feb 26, 2013, 10:02 AM
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a keep right ticket 'round these parts.
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NJ
Feb 26, 2013, 10:03 AM
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it was snowing too.
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The penalty should be death.***
Feb 26, 2013, 9:36 AM
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Speaking of death penalties....
Feb 26, 2013, 9:40 AM
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Was that one of your beloved co-workers that hacked up the coptic christians?
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LOL. Probably. I don't work there anymore.***
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I like it! Move over or speed up!***
Feb 26, 2013, 9:39 AM
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nothing pisses me off more than having to go around
Feb 26, 2013, 9:41 AM
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a slow left lane driver and when I figure a way to do it, notice they are talking on the cell phone or texting.
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texters are easy to spot. Drive worse than drunk.
Feb 26, 2013, 9:44 AM
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Talking on the phone while driving is barely mult-tasking. KEEP PRESSING THE GAS PEDAL!!!!
Yeah, I don't like those people either.
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Oculus Spirit [79506]
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YES!! I drive drunk far better than most people can drive
Feb 26, 2013, 9:47 AM
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while on the phone, either texting or talking. There is absolutely zero need to text somebody while your driving, pay attention to the ####### road. We need to take driving much more seriously in this country, and I'd start by making the drivers test harder. Half the people with drivers license's have no business behind the wheel of a car.
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All-TigerNet [11208]
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Had a dude smash me in the ### end....
Feb 26, 2013, 9:56 AM
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Yeah, I realize how that looks.
Anyways, I'm sitting at a traffic light and I see this guy rolling about 60 mph and a 100 yrds left to go. He locks up, on wet pavement. I frantically try to get in the next lane, fully prepared to sacrifice the vehicle in front of me. I think that I have cleared the lane. BOOM!!! Dude clips the rear corner of my vehicle.
Long story short....He tells me that he was texting. I go ballistic on his dumb ###.
Those folks are a menace on the highways and need to be persecuted, prosecuted and locked away in solitary confinement.
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Oculus Spirit [79506]
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Yep, if you can't stay off your phone, stay out from behind
Feb 26, 2013, 10:04 AM
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the wheel.
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Oculus Spirit [79506]
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This should be federal law with mandatory minimum
Feb 26, 2013, 9:44 AM
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jail sentences. Teach this in driving school, especially make young females aware of the problems they cause on the interstate. Get off the cell phone and GTF over. I've also noticed utility vehicles like to park in the left lane, too. They should lose their jobs for it. Traffic would flow SO much better without these ######## who think the left lane is their personal driving lane. I have so much hatred for left lane idiots it's almost uncontainable sometimes. When your two cars back from one and you see that day light in the middle lane, but just can't squeeze past Gale in her Highlander, it makes you border line homicidal.
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Rock Defender [54]
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These scenarios are why I like riding the motorcycle to work
Feb 26, 2013, 9:55 AM
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I can keep the speeds similar but cut 5-10 minutes off my commute because I can safely do some slicing and dicing that would be a lot more of a diik move in my car.
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All-In [28802]
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Not true, in my recollection
Feb 26, 2013, 10:00 AM
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The issue there is that too many people are on the road and trying to pass, the jostling from lane to lane in an attempt to go faster in heavy traffic causes the left lane to slow down. There's an example of where it would be better just to stay in whatever land you're in.
Definitely annoying when someone's going the speed limit or just five over in the left lane.
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Oculus Spirit [79506]
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That's not true in my experiences...
Feb 26, 2013, 10:03 AM
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The jostling people do is a direct result of slower drivers in the left hand lane that refuse to get over. Look at the interstate during rush hour traffic, left lane bumper to bumper, two right lanes with sparse traffic...but just enough to not be able to pass all of the idiots in the left lane. If people simply passed and got over, you solve the problem.
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CU Medallion [54759]
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this is proven....lack of respect for lane hierarchy
Feb 26, 2013, 10:07 AM
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is directly responsible for overall traffic....
/serious
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Rock Defender [54]
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So just admit that you've never driven on the speed
Feb 26, 2013, 10:09 AM
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limitless sections of the Autobahn.
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All-In [48164]
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Why don't we just
Feb 26, 2013, 10:02 AM
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call it the "How Dare Anyone Ever Inconvenience Me" Law?
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All-TigerNet [11208]
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That won't work. You see....
Feb 26, 2013, 10:05 AM
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it's not just a single, individual "me" that's being "inconvenienced".
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Oculus Spirit [79506]
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Exactly, it's also the miles and miles of traffic behind me
Feb 26, 2013, 10:07 AM
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Anyone who defends riding in the left hand lane is an obvious left hand laner, and should have their license revoked immediately.
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All-In [28802]
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Agreed...
Feb 26, 2013, 10:05 AM
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The extreme tailgater when the middle lane isn't open is just ad big of a butt head
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All-TigerNet [11208]
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I would agree, provided that the left lane driver is
Feb 26, 2013, 10:07 AM
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progressing at a fair rate of speed. If I'm in the left lane and I'm running 10 over. Ef em. They can change lanes.
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Oculus Spirit [97903]
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My experience in Atlanta is that they can already pull over
Feb 26, 2013, 10:07 AM
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just about everyone in the left lane already. 90% of them are traveling at least 10mph over the posted limit.
It will be ironic, pulling someone over for traveling the speed limit in the left lane because he is slowing up the speeders who should be getting the ticket.
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All-TigerNet [11208]
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When I see people pulled over in Atlanta, I wonder
Feb 26, 2013, 10:09 AM
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just what the frack they were doing to get pulled. That place is a race track.
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Oculus Spirit [97903]
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I think the threshold is somewhere around 100mph
Feb 26, 2013, 10:26 AM
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Give or take a few mph. I was passed one day on I-20 by a motorcycle gang on rice rockets going well in excess of 130mph. I was doing a paltry 70mph and they passed me like I was pulled over on the side of the highway.
I guess they all survived because I kept waiting to come up on a motorcycle wrapped around a light pole or something.
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All-In [28802]
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If everybody's in the left lane trying to go fast
Feb 26, 2013, 10:08 AM
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It doesn't help anything to switch to the passing lane anyway. Switching lanes in heavy traffic causes a bigger backup than possibly slowing somebody down in the left lane in heavy traffic.
Just to be clear, we're telling about when there's a lot of traffic, not when you can easily move right without slowing anybody down.
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Oculus Spirit [79506]
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See, that's the problem. Everybody in the left lane...
Feb 26, 2013, 10:12 AM
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The vast majority of those individuals in the left lane have no business being there, because they have no interest in going any faster than the other traffic, they just see a couple of people do it and they follow. Also, in regards to switching lanes in heavy traffic causing a bigger backup...This could easily be solved by teaching people that it is not always necessary to slam on brakes, you can let off of the gas pedal and sufficiently slow your vehicle down on the highway. It is not necessary to nose dive your car because somebody switched lanes in front of you.
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Commissioner [960]
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^^^YES
Feb 26, 2013, 11:18 AM
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Its called drag mother farkers
use it.
Instead of bottoming out the brake pedal.
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Oculus Spirit [97903]
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Now if SC can just create a law that says no semi-trucks in
Feb 26, 2013, 10:08 AM
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the left lane between Columbia and Orangeburg on 26 (both ways)....now that would be awesome.
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Commissioner [960]
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or widen that #####***
Feb 26, 2013, 11:19 AM
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110%er [9107]
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Good.
Feb 26, 2013, 12:45 PM
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Maybe people will pay attention to the rules if they start getting fined.
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Savant [470]
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This should help the morning and afternoon commute.
Feb 26, 2013, 12:54 PM
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I once got stuck in the left lane on I75 in a throng of cars behind a woman who had used glass chalk to write "Speed Limit 55" on her rear windshield.
Of course, the speed limit is 70. Gotta love North Georgia.
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