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From: mzal@pegasus.UUCP (Mike Zaleski)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Hogging the left lane
Message-ID: <1443@pegasus.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 25-Jun-84 11:28:28 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 25 11:28:28 1984
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Re: The following viewpoint (Other messages agreeing with it have
appeared.  I just chose this one because it was the first I could find.):

  "Nobody has any right whatsoever to drive above the legal limit, unless
  s/he has a little red light on top and a siren.  If you are intent on
  exceeding the limit, DO IT AT YOUR INCONVENIENCE, NOT MINE! If you are
  unwilling to change lanes to accommodate your unsafe, illegal impatience,
  WHY THE %&*!! DO YOU EXPECT ME TO???"

It seems to me this viewpoint could be paraphrased as: "You're being a
jerk, so I'll be one too."

The author of the previous quotation also says (in the same message):

  "I may [change lanes], purely in the interest of safety (as I would
  avoid any other careless, hazardous driving menace), but I find that
  attitude infuriating."

If you do something in the interest of safety, it should not be a
sometimes thing.  If the people in the middle (or right) lane are
aware of what is going on, you need only signal and someone will
make room for you.  Chances are, the speeding party will probably
try the same trick with less regard for a safe maneuver.  This may,
in turn lead to an accident for no reason.

Finally, if there is no one in the slower lanes, why are you in
the fast lane in the first place?

I don't mean for this message to be taken as support for those
people who flash their lights and try to go faster than prevailing
traffic by weaving through it.  I only mean it as a common sense
argument in how to deal with these people.

-- Mike^Z        Zaleski@Rutgers       allegra!pegasus!mzal