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Does that mean the left lane should be unoccupied if everyone in the other lanes are driving at the speed limit?
by pkaye 9y ago
Does that mean the left lane should be unoccupied if everyone in the other lanes are driving at the speed limit?
- e12e 9y agoYes.
- aisofteng 9y agoNo. It should be unoccupied if nobody is passing. If it is empty on a particular stretch, somebody will decide to pass.
- testvox 9y agoBut if everyone is driving the speed limit no one can pass.
- bfuller 9y agoyou can exceed the speed limit by a certain amount while passing. at least here.
- duggan 9y agoI'd like to see where that's written into a statute book; doesn't sound correct.
- bfuller 9y agoIt's in the book you have to study when you get your license here in Texas :) you can exceed the limit by 5mph. Have a nice day!
- pkaye 9y agoMaybe on a state by state basis as I just googled it and you can't do it in California.
- bfuller 9y agoI specifically said "at least here."
- duggan 9y agoYou too! The reason that I said I'd like to see where it's written into statute is that I can't think of a reason why it would be legal. It sounds like driver folklore rather than law. Having a speed limit that can be exceeded simply for overtaking (rather than by emergency services) means the practical speed limit then becomes "the limit + 5" in traffic, which increases the chance for collisions (for no reason I can think of). I'm of course open to being shown otherwise! I couldn't find anything searching for "Texas passing speed limit" or variations, but my license is European, so I'm not sure where to look.
- YSFEJ4SWJUVU6 9y agoThat certainly depends on how the law is written. Where I live, the wording is that you are recommended (and on certain roads, required) to stick to the rightmost available lane – which means that you're certainly not breaking the law by driving at the speed limit on the leftmost lane if all the other lanes are already at full capacity, which also makes perfect sense to me. (However, exceeding the speed limit would be against the law in any situation, unless perhaps where you could avoid an accident by doing so – although that may be hard to prove.)