Re: "Slower" drivers in the center lane.
Cheryl Singhal (csinghal@CAPACCESS.ORG)
Mon, 11 Sep 1995 08:06:51 -0400
Too right about passing vehicles doing the speed limit! I did a couple
hours on a local freeway yesterday, with my cruise-control set about a
mile above the speed limit. I was passed by everything on the road from
broken down rattletraps *I* wouldn't have taken on the up-ramp to
18-wheelers...except for about six cars (two one direction, 4 or 5 the
other) who were doing 45 in a 65 zone.
The right lane, as Chuck Bramlet says, was intended for enter/exit, and I
was taught to merge left if I were in the right lane approached an
interchange. On the east coast, however, we were told in the 1960s that
the leftmost lane was for thru-traffic and passing.
It still seems to me that if I'm doing the speed limit asking me to yield
right of way to someone who wishes to pass is by definition
aiding-and-abetting (or its non-criminal equiv) because passers ALWAYS
have to go faster than the passee.
Earlier this summer, oneof our travels took us past not one but two
Council Summer Camp sites, and I was -- irked, shall we say? -- by the
number of Scout-filled, Scouter-driven vehicles who whizzed past us as we
tried to stay just above the speed limit without getting run over. Small
wonder it never takes the boys en-route to camp as long to get there as
it takes us! <g>
It is frightening to be boxed into the center lane and see nothing in the
rearview mirror but the paint between the bumper and the windshield of
one of those vans/minivans/converted vans, as well.
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