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From: jmm@ecijmm.UUCP (John Macdonald)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Highway Driving Rules
Message-ID: <273@ecijmm.UUCP>
Date: 18 Apr 89 03:17:54 GMT
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Reply-To: jmm@ecijmm.UUCP (John Macdonald)
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In article <3098@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
>...
>
>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.
>
>...
>
>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."
>

Even worse are the myriad souls who overtake at their normal driving
speed, and then as they are passing SLOW DOWN to a few kph (some of
us have gone metric, Brad) faster than the car they are passing.

I assume that they think that passing is dangerous (the car might
pull out in front of them and he is going too fast to stop), without
considering that he is dramatically increasing the amount of time
that the car could pull over into him broadside WHILE he is passing.

It is also extermely obnoxious treatment of any traffic which is
trying to pass HIM - he goes slow when the road is blocked and people
cannot pass, and then speeds back up making it more difficult for them
to pass when the road is clear again.  (Slowing down for curves and
hills is in the same category, except of course when the curve is
sharp enough to make it unsafe to continue at the same speed.)
-- 
John Macdonald