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While I think you shouldn't be a self-righteous bottleneck on the left lane, it is clear that speeding is a major factor in these highway traffic jams. It makes
by h3mb3 7y ago
While I think you shouldn't be a self-righteous bottleneck on the left lane, it is clear that speeding is a major factor in these highway traffic jams. It makes it impossible to keep reasonable gaps between cars as drivers always try to go as fast as possible, getting too close to the next car in the process. This always makes me go crazy when driving in the US (although this problem is probably pretty universal to any country with a lot of traffic).
- c22 7y agoYes, I experience this issue most commonly when there are two lanes and I am using cruise control. I come up behind a truck or a bus and I need to pass it, but someone is coming down the passing lane like it's their own personal express lane. If I change lanes and pass at the speed limit then the person behind me will catch up quickly and start high beaming me. The alternative is I disengage my cruise control and hang back, allowing the speeder to pass first, but this plan often backfires in denser traffic because speeders often run in packs and other cars will jump over and immediately accelerate, after letting them pass and merging behind them they will vary their speed erratically as they try to sort themselves back into the right lane (or not, some of them of them just keep barrelling down the left lane forever). Usually in this situation I'll try to compromise by accelerating to +10 over during the pass, but I am not really comfortable doing it and often it's still not enough to stop me from getting flashed at.