Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Highway Driving Rules
Message-ID: <3098@looking.UUCP>
Date: 17 Apr 89 02:14:28 GMT
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Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Distribution: ont
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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You may think it's cute when a you're blocking the left lane to
slow down to re-insert yourself, and I suppose it is the right thing
to do if you're unwilling to do anything else.

But the fact is that while most people understand that you're not
supposed to go slower than right lane traffic in the left lane, you
are also not supposed to go the same speed or only just a few miles
an hour faster.

The left lane is for fast traffic (some roads) or PASSING (all multi
lane roads.)

PASSING is not something that is done by moving into the left lane
and proceding at the same speed or 2 mph faster until you are past the
guy on the right.  To pass, you should accelerate by a significant amount,
even if if takes you over the limit (8-)), pass quickly, and then return
to the slow lane.   You should not sit an block the lane for other people
who, in accordance with the rules of the road, are passing at a high speed.

I hate the drivers who drive 100 kph who come up upon a driver going 99
kph, so they figure what they should do is go into the left lane at 100 kph,
take 2 minutes to pass the guy, and then move right.   This is wrong,
and a serious hazard to traffic safety.   Yes, as far as I understand
it, the law says you are permitted and supposed to exceed the limit to
pass.  If you're not a driver who goes at normal left lane speed, you
are passing, so get with it.

I just hate to see one of these 1 mph passers who has created a line
of 15 cars behind him, all in the name of "traffic safety."

For my next question, why is it that these guys are always wearing hats?
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473