Tennessee has something like that.
But I always run into situations like this...
I’m in the fast lane and going 2 miles faster than the speed limit.
I’m slowly gaining on the cars on the right, enough that I don’t want to change lines and get behind them.
But there are 4 cars that want to do 10 miles faster than the speed limit lining up behind me.
Am I wrong?
Great question...I typically will drive at last 5mph over the posted speed limit in our 80mph Idaho freeways, and in no time there will be a line of nuts who think they should be able to drive 100.
I only drive in the fast lane to overtake slower vehicles, but often it is not possible to return to the right lane immediately...which is also why I carry.
Yep.
Yes, pull to the right, let the ones going 10 faster than you pass, then resume your 2 over trip.
Yes, pull to the right, let the ones going 10 faster than you pass, then resume your 2 over trip.
1000%. Get over.
You should be run off the road! : )
You will always have people tailgate you. I see it all the time along with stupid people you see switching in and out of lanes.
Your allowed to speed up. It’s not hard. Yes your wrong and you know it. Speed up and pass then get over or slow down and get over. Going 2 mph faster isn’t passing. Duh.
I’m the person behind you. Every day. Thanks.
Yes. Either speed up and complete your pass, or change lanes right and slow down a bit behind the cars you are gaining on.
It is safer, obeys the Golden Rule, and actually helps the flow of traffic. (We ran simulations of this very thing in college.)
“Am I wrong?”
Depends.
I’ve done a lot of long runs on the highway and run into this a lot.
I’ve gotten pretty good at judging about how fast the one behind me is going in relation to my gain on the one in the right.
If it looks like I will get stuck behind the guy on the right because they won’t pass me all the way by the time we get there, I don’t move.
If I think they will, I do.
MANY times in the circumstance I don’t move, they try to pass on the right and they are unable to pass because we both caught up to the guy on the right. Note, I’m exceptionally careful to ensure I don’t change my speed during this time.
I’m not a dick that gets offended that someone is driving faster than me and try to block. I’ve just gotten stuck one too many times on the right when the guy I thought was going to pass didn’t.
So, it depends on how well you can judge the high seas action of 1MPH differentials.
If you can’t, move until you learn how to. Just takes practice.
On the flip side, if I judge wrong, they wind up passing on the right, usually because they sped up (which I do when I pass on right to avoid those dick-types). Again, I am careful not to change my speed when they’re passing.
If they pass me like that and then slow down enough for me to catch up to them, I consider them inattentive and eventually pass them and WILL block if they try to pass me again.
Note, this is only for long runs with consistent speed. You can’t expect consistent speed from folks in local or heavy traffic so should forgive when someone passes and then slows, after all, they could be looking for a turn.
For the case you present literally, a 10mph string behind, I’d move over. You won’t have to wait long behind the guy on the right as they go by.
And, keep in mind, if you notice a 1/4 mile string of cars behind you with no one in front, YOU are the reason these laws are coming on the books!
Everything I do above, I’d be willing to take to court.
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Sounds like I5 in California!
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If there are no cars in front of you and cars behind you, you are the problem. Move over.
You may not be legally wrong but you are endangering yourself and others unnecessarily. Twice a week, I drive through the California Bay Area traffic where four to seven lanes are common. I drive on average about five miles over the speed limit and I am slow compared to a lot of drivers. But I have no problem getting out of the way of leadfooted drivers. I would much rather see them ahead of me than in my rear view mirror. And my motto is, leave your ego at home.
I seem to get the TN drivers who ONLY speed up when I go to pass them! Are they offended that I didn’t want to dawdle behind them in the right lane?!
You are wrong. You are NOT the police. What if they HAVE a good reason to be speeding and YOU are oozing along?
Nope - I’m like you in that regard...if there’s room that i don’t have to be stuck behind slower traffic, I’ll let the speedsters through...if to do so would likely strand me behind a slow train of traffic, i make them wait until I clear the jammed area...funny how so many who are in a hurry, once you make room for them, take their sweet tome getting by you and don’t do you the courtesy of not stranding you behind the traffic they don’t want to be stranded behind...
No, you are not. But before you are attacked by hypocritical FReepers, I’m leaving this thread because I’m getting infuriated...
NO.
1) Nobody has the "right" to exceed the speed limit by any amount. Therefore, nobody has standing to complain that someone else isn't violating the law as much as they want to violate the law.
2) It's the passing lane. You're passing. QED.
I’d rather pass you on the left.
Slower traffic moves right. If someone wants to pass you, let them.