Re: If you drive in the left-most lane, [rant]
 

Shajen,

I am Dids.

Hope this helps.

(it's less about which car you're driving than the pace of the traffic around you)

Re: If you drive in the left-most lane, [rant]
 

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I think you need to be more realistic. The far left lane is not only for passing. I doubt more than the crazyest few use it 100% for this purpose.

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It is just for passing. In Germany (so I'm told), everyone follows that convention. In the US, seemingly no one does. But proper driving is that the left lane is for passing only.

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Then no one inthe US drives "properly?" At that point, it's time to re-define proper, and I stand by my original statement.

Re: If you drive in the left-most lane, [rant]
 

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Shajen,

I am Dids.

Hope this helps.

(it's less about which car you're driving than the pace of the traffic around you)

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I agree that the traffic around you has everything to do with being a safe and responsible driver.

However, too many people (on interstates, open highways) hog the left hand lane. Doing this is retarted.

(and yeah, I know you're dids. Typically I agree with what you say)

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If I was a cop no matter what my specific area of responsibility I'd spend like 1 day a week just [censored] around with people who cut onto onramps. I imagine that would be fun for like a year or so, or until I got fired.

Get in line at the appropriate time(it's not like the onramp is going to catch you by surprise), cutting into a lane when there is a large speed difference is very dangerous and tremendously annoying to both the people on the ramp and the poor guy behind you.

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my take on this is that if you are in the left lane, you should be riding the bumper of the car in front of you until he changes lanes.

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I usually drive faster than most of the drivers on the road, but when someone does this to me, I slow the [censored] down just to piss them off. Keep your distance and I have no problems getting over to let you pass. Ride my ass and I'm not going anywhere. Unless of course you try to pass me to the right, then I downshift and hit the gas.

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You, sir, deserve to be shot. I agree with tailgating being terrible (probably the cause of most accidents), but if someone gets the chance to tailgate you that means that you already failed to shift over a lane, making you the jackass. Accelerating to not let them pass you on the right is the reason you need to be shot.

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F- that - I'm with PokerAce on this one.
It depends on how open the road is I guess. If there is all open road then yes - you are a deuchebag if you speed up when somebody tries to pass on the right.
But when some spaztic assclown has to pass 1 car just so he can cut in front of the very car he's passing and then jam on the brakes and go nowhere in a traffic jam - you bet your ass I'm going to speed up and not let them cut me off.

Re: If you drive in the left-most lane, [rant]
 

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i dont care about this and dont get angry unless im driving up the 5 to the bay area from LA or to vegas from LA and people refuse to move over for me. its annoying to me because i move over for people driving fast behind me.

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Yeah, this applies more to the 5 in the middle of nowhere than on the 405 through LA.

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theres 3 types of people on my ideal road.

People in the right lane
Me, driving MINION in the left lane from twisted metal.
And the people 200yd's ahead i blew up with rockets and napalm.

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People from Illinois suck at driving. So much so that we have an acronym for them here in Wisconsin. F***ing Illinois Bastards. Drive correctly, damnit!

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HAHAHAHA
Wisconsin is the worst place to drive. It seems the only time anyone it that state uses the left lane properly is when they have a liscense plate from a different state. My 6 hour drive to Spooner WI this summer was turned into an 8 hour trip because because the moran cheesehead is in the left lane going exactly the same speed as the semi in the right.

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My 6 hour drive to Spooner WI this summer was turned into an 8 hour trip because because the moran cheesehead is in the left lane going exactly the same speed as the semi in the right.

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...and then you went on tilt because you realized you spent 8 hours driving, only to end up in [censored] Spooner? Silly FIB.<font color=" white">Just a guess</font>

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my take on this is that if you are in the left lane, you should be riding the bumper of the car in front of you until he changes lanes.

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I usually drive faster than most of the drivers on the road, but when someone does this to me, I slow the [censored] down just to piss them off. Keep your distance and I have no problems getting over to let you pass. Ride my ass and I'm not going anywhere. Unless of course you try to pass me to the right, then I downshift and hit the gas.

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Why does everyone take everything so personally and have to be a dick about everything?