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That makes a lot of sense for I-5. It's dead straight, and since trucks pass each other, the passing lane is often really slow. A third lane would get bogged

That makes a lot of sense for I-5. It's dead straight, and since trucks pass each other, the passing lane is often really slow. A third lane would get bogged down behind slowpokes trying to park their way past the trucks at a comfortable 5 over, when 90 is a perfectly reasonable minimum speed, so having this law might mitigate that.

maerF0x0 8y ago
This is also an argument against No speed limit as speed differential is really the more dangerous aspect. It's not safe to drive 100MPH along side semis doing 65MPH .
- chrononaut 8y ago
  The moments I am most afraid when driving are the times where I am on a multi-lane highway in the left set of lanes and the right set of lanes are creeping along at 5 to 10mph trying to exit the highway on an off-ramp while traffic in my current and other lanes are still going 60 to 70mph.
- wolrah 8y ago
  It is very safe as long as people have lane discipline. Which is to say slow drivers keep the fuck to the right. See Germany for examples. Unfortunately here in America a lot of slow shitheads have an entitlement complex and think that anyone who wants to go faster than them is evil.
  - xxxdarrenxxx 8y ago
    And then one realizes we should take out drivers, as they are a unpredictable variable. Then ones argues less lanes is less capacity, thus less throughput. Then one argues to up the speed even more. Then one argues speed differential is the most dangerous. Then one argues we should not have the majority of 4-seat-cars driving with 3 empty seats. Then one argues we should go electric. When the solution looks like a train, sounds like a train and acts like a train, then obviously the solution was the car Lolsociety. Entitlement for evahhh
- SamReidHughes 8y ago
  That's a rule of thumb that might not apply so well to dead straight roads with long distances between exits. The semis aren't entering the third lane. Other vehicles would be, and the fast lane ought to slow down when passing... of course, some people would, and others wouldn't. More practically it's 100 mph versus somebody changing lanes at 85 mph. Or maybe 120 mph versus somebody changing lanes at 85 mph, at night... As a former I-5 driver I'd like to see this tried; to mitigate the cost of accidents we could build a few mass graves in Cowschwitz.

maerF0x0 8y ago

This is also an argument against No speed limit as speed differential is really the more dangerous aspect. It's not safe to drive 100MPH along side semis doing 65MPH .

chrononaut 8y ago
The moments I am most afraid when driving are the times where I am on a multi-lane highway in the left set of lanes and the right set of lanes are creeping along at 5 to 10mph trying to exit the highway on an off-ramp while traffic in my current and other lanes are still going 60 to 70mph.
wolrah 8y ago
It is very safe as long as people have lane discipline. Which is to say slow drivers keep the fuck to the right. See Germany for examples. Unfortunately here in America a lot of slow shitheads have an entitlement complex and think that anyone who wants to go faster than them is evil.
- xxxdarrenxxx 8y ago
  And then one realizes we should take out drivers, as they are a unpredictable variable. Then ones argues less lanes is less capacity, thus less throughput. Then one argues to up the speed even more. Then one argues speed differential is the most dangerous. Then one argues we should not have the majority of 4-seat-cars driving with 3 empty seats. Then one argues we should go electric. When the solution looks like a train, sounds like a train and acts like a train, then obviously the solution was the car Lolsociety. Entitlement for evahhh
SamReidHughes 8y ago
That's a rule of thumb that might not apply so well to dead straight roads with long distances between exits. The semis aren't entering the third lane. Other vehicles would be, and the fast lane ought to slow down when passing... of course, some people would, and others wouldn't. More practically it's 100 mph versus somebody changing lanes at 85 mph. Or maybe 120 mph versus somebody changing lanes at 85 mph, at night... As a former I-5 driver I'd like to see this tried; to mitigate the cost of accidents we could build a few mass graves in Cowschwitz.