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What's the actual problem with maintaining a constant speed in the middle lane?

• rootusrootus 5y ago
  This'll be my last reply on this topic, because I figure I'm talking to a brick wall. No offense intended :). I'm sorry that people don't really understand why the whole 'please stay to the right except when passing' rule makes the freeway flow much better. A line of cars bumper-to-bumper in the middle lane on cruise control causes so much congestion. But people do it because they don't want to be inconvenienced by the occasional traffic getting on the freeway. If it were a four or five lane freeway it would be less egregious. But what it does to I-5 when it's only three lanes is really terrible.
  • honkycat 5y ago
    you're not talking to a brick wall you're just wrong just admit it
  • throwawaylinux 5y ago
    Ah okay. Where I've been the right lane is not occasionally impeded with traffic merging and exiting, it's almost constant, so lots of people hogging the left lane actually causes blockages from people trying to enter and exit. I also haven't noticed the middle lane blockage problem that much. It's very easy to merge when people are traveling a constant speed in a predictable lane. I can see where your problem is coming from though. Don't feel like you're talking to a brick wall though it's the nature of the forum it looks like a bunch of people all asked the same question around the same time (I didn't see the others when I hit reply) so you're actually responding to 3 different people, not one person who keeps being unable to follow.
    • throwawaylinux 5y ago
      *lots of people hogging the right lane