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I thought you can pass drivers on each side in the us?

readthenotes1 2y ago
Just because you can does not mean you should. Typically the leftmost lane is meant to be the passing Lane. If you're in the left lane and getting passed on the right that means you should have moved to the right...
- mitthrowaway2 2y ago
  What if you're trying to find an opening to move right, but the safest available space to change lanes is behind the people passing you?
  - haswell 2y ago
    The correct thing to do is to turn on your turn signal and wait for a safe opportunity to move to the right. But in most circumstances, if you’re trying to find an opening to move right, that’s still an indication that you’ve been hanging out in the left lane for an inappropriate amount of time and/or misusing the lane.
- busyant 2y ago
  > If you're in the left lane and getting passed on the right that means you should have moved to the right... Not always. I'm often in the passing lane (passing a semi, for example) and someone else zooms up behind me and expects me to accelerate to their speed. They get annoyed that I'm not passing fast enough, so they either ride on my bumper or they fall back and scoot 2-lanes to the right and then speed up to pass everyone (the semi and me). To be clear: after I pass the semi (or whatever) in the center lane, I will move to the right, but I'm not going to speed up to the point where I consider it dangerous just to please the speed demon behind me.
  - zamadatix 2y ago
    Or the worst of highway inventions: "exit left in 1 mile". There's almost an entirely separate ruleset for urban highways vs rural highways. Rural highways it's dead simple... stay right except while actively passing. Only 2 lanes to be in and not really many corner cases. Urban highways still have the same general "stay to the right" but suddenly there are a lot of exceptions "except when passing, except when exiting left or taking the left fork soon, except when trying to get to a spot where you can even start to pass the block of semis in the right 2/3 lanes, except when you are trying to get out of the lane that force-exits in 1 mile". Inevitably someone will be going fast enough to be mad you spent 5 seconds in a lane that wasn't the rightmost open one but, unlike rural highways, it doesn't always mean you were actually in the wrong lane.
bri3d 2y ago
In the US traffic laws are state-by-state. In most states, unlike most European countries, "undertaking" _is_ legal, but, additionally most states still have a "slower traffic must keep right" rule. That's what the sign the parent post is referring to is trying to point out - if someone is passing you in the "slower" lane, you are not in the correct one.

Just because you can does not mean you should. Typically the leftmost lane is meant to be the passing Lane. If you're in the left lane and getting passed on the right that means you should have moved to the right...

mitthrowaway2 2y ago
What if you're trying to find an opening to move right, but the safest available space to change lanes is behind the people passing you?
- haswell 2y ago
  The correct thing to do is to turn on your turn signal and wait for a safe opportunity to move to the right. But in most circumstances, if you’re trying to find an opening to move right, that’s still an indication that you’ve been hanging out in the left lane for an inappropriate amount of time and/or misusing the lane.
busyant 2y ago
> If you're in the left lane and getting passed on the right that means you should have moved to the right... Not always. I'm often in the passing lane (passing a semi, for example) and someone else zooms up behind me and expects me to accelerate to their speed. They get annoyed that I'm not passing fast enough, so they either ride on my bumper or they fall back and scoot 2-lanes to the right and then speed up to pass everyone (the semi and me). To be clear: after I pass the semi (or whatever) in the center lane, I will move to the right, but I'm not going to speed up to the point where I consider it dangerous just to please the speed demon behind me.
- zamadatix 2y ago
  Or the worst of highway inventions: "exit left in 1 mile". There's almost an entirely separate ruleset for urban highways vs rural highways. Rural highways it's dead simple... stay right except while actively passing. Only 2 lanes to be in and not really many corner cases. Urban highways still have the same general "stay to the right" but suddenly there are a lot of exceptions "except when passing, except when exiting left or taking the left fork soon, except when trying to get to a spot where you can even start to pass the block of semis in the right 2/3 lanes, except when you are trying to get out of the lane that force-exits in 1 mile". Inevitably someone will be going fast enough to be mad you spent 5 seconds in a lane that wasn't the rightmost open one but, unlike rural highways, it doesn't always mean you were actually in the wrong lane.

bri3d 2y ago

In the US traffic laws are state-by-state. In most states, unlike most European countries, "undertaking" _is_ legal, but, additionally most states still have a "slower traffic must keep right" rule. That's what the sign the parent post is referring to is trying to point out - if someone is passing you in the "slower" lane, you are not in the correct one.