ATTENTION: PASSING LANE EDUCATION!

[Roger Bacon]

When you're in the far left lane (passing lane) yield to faster moving traffic and move to the right.

You fucking morons...



Misuse and common practice

Common practice and most law on United States Highways is that the left lane is reserved for passing and faster moving traffic, and that traffic using the left lane must yield to traffic wishing to overtake. The United States Uniform Vehicle Code states:

    Upon all roadways any vehicle proceeding at less than the normal speed of traffic at the time and place and under the conditions then existing shall be driven in the right-hand lane then available for traffic ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's website on "Keep Right Laws" points out that:

    This law refers to the "normal" speed of traffic, not the "legal" speed of traffic. The 60 MPH driver in a 55 MPH zone where everybody else is going 65 MPH must move right..."[3]

It is also illegal in many states in the U.S. to use the "far left" or passing lane on a major highway as a travelling lane (as opposed to passing), or to fail to yield to faster moving traffic that is attempting to overtake in that lane. For example, Colorado's "Left Lane Law" states:

    A person shall not drive a motor vehicle in the passing lane of a highway if the speed-limit is sixty-five miles per hour or more unless such person is passing other motor-vehicles that are in a non-passing lane...[4]

Other examples, such as Massachusetts (General Statute 89-4B),[citation needed] New Jersey, Maine, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and others, make it illegal to fail to yield to traffic that seeks to overtake in the left lane,[citation needed] or to create any other "obstruction" in the passing lane that hinders the flow of traffic. As a result, heavy trucks are often prohibited from using the passing lane.

A common problem arising from misuse of the "fast lane" is that it forces faster moving traffic that wishes to overtake on the left to change lanes, do so on the right, and then change lanes again. Further, if the vehicle misusing the passing lane is going slower than the flow of other traffic, it forces those using the middle "travel" lane (but who are moving faster) to pass on the right as well, even though they have no intention of doing so.

A driver hoping to pass a slow motorist in the "fast lane" is stuck in an awkward situation. One strategy is to signal a lane change toward the center median. Another is to flash headlights. A third, which sacrifices safety and is illegal, is to drive very close to the "fast lane" driver's bumper (this is known as tailgating). In Germany it is common to signal a lane change toward the center of the road, as if there were another lane to the left of the "fast lane".

Most commonly, motorists will attempt to overtake the outer car on the inner lane either to continue at a fast pace or to pass a car that is simply going too slow in the passing lane. For high-capacity multilane freeways (three or more lanes per direction), many motorists often pass on the inner lane, largely in response to misuse of the "passing lane" by slower traffic.

[chunkramwell]

Fuck Ohio

[Roger Bacon]

[wes]

I pass more non-driving assholes per day than I do masturbating...........a nd believe me,I cannot stop playing with myself! 

I`m fucking losing it lately!!

[BayGBM]

When I lived on the East coast drivers between DC and Boston all seemed to know that Slower Traffic should Keep Right.  If not, a friendly flash of your high beams was all it took to remind them. In California no one seems to know this. 

[Parker]

When I lived on the East coast drivers between DC and Boston all seemed to know that Slower Traffic should Keep Right.  If not, a friendly flash of your high beams was all it took to remind them. In California no one seems to know this. 

NYC drivers are the worst, they don't know the difference between their brake peddle and their turn signal...

[slaver]

AWESOME

I posted something similar.

Here in CA moronathon is epic proportions.  Hek its a blue state so over 50% are morons.

[Hugo Chavez]

The Colorado law is such a fucking joke.  Most of the time you can't follow it even if you wanted to.

[newmom]

When I lived on the East coast drivers between DC and Boston all seemed to know that Slower Traffic should Keep Right.  If not, a friendly flash of your high beams was all it took to remind them. In California no one seems to know this. 

bullshit. Massachusetts drivers always block the left lane when they can do 60 in the right lane