My beef is this: Let’s say there are two lanes and the speed limit is 70, and there’s a good bit of traffic, so not much opportunity to pass safely. The right lane is clogged with people driving at 65 mph, so I’m in the left lane. But I have a guy tailgating me in the left lane because my 75 mph is too slow to suit him. He is in a hurry and likes to do 85, and I am a problem.
Yes, you still need to move over, you cannot simply squat in the passing lane and force the world to comply with what ever speed you are deciding to enforce in the fast lane, on any given day.
It’s safer for both of you to either speed up to match the car in front of you in the left lane, or to find a bit of a gap in the lane next to you and move over to let the faster driver past.
Even if you don’t feel like being courteous, do you really want some guy right behind you who is getting frustrated by your slowing him down? They don’t usually get calmer as the miles go by.
I find that driving is a lot safer if I don’t treat it as a competition, and if I think about how I’d feel if I was the other guy. Let the cops enforce the rules if they want to, and drive to keep yourself alive and safe.
Move over to the right lane and let him pass, I do it all the time, if the guy wants to drive slower let him, I hate the types that sit over in the left lane and say, I’m doing the speed limit, what do you want !! MOVE OVER TO THE SLOW LANE.
Okay, now I feel better, I now return you to your regular traffic ...
Yep, you are the problem. Keep out of the left lane if you aren’t passing someone. Be courteous and get over to let those going faster than you pass. Duh.
Exactly! I get that all the time.
A car is only going ‘slow’ if there is space in front of him that he’s not using.
Driving the speed of the guy in front of you is just doing what the traffic is doing. Not much I can do about going slow in the fast lane when traffic gets backed up.