Posted on 01/18/2023 11:52:57 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Edited on 01/18/2023 1:25:08 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
So if a driver doesn’t want to break the speed limit LAW...? He/she is breaking this new LAW if he/she doesn’t enable/empower others to break the speed limit LAW?
Go ahead and flame me. 🔥 But this is even stupider than the mask laws.
I know I will get an abundance of justifications and smarmy comments. Are they also going to rigorously enforce the 10 items or less rule at grocery store?
I am all in favor of this. It used to be law here but I think rescinded. But law or not, if several cars are close behind you and the road wide open in front of you, move to the right. It’s just simple courtesy. When I was 16 a high school buddy got pulled over for driving too slow on the freeway. He didn’t get a ticket just an explanation, which was fair considering his age and inexperience as a driver. I’m sure the cop wondered if he was drunk or stoned but no, just young and overly cautious.
"I'm stupid as hell...I'm stupid as hell...I'm stupid as hell...I'm stupid as hell..." (RIP Gallagher)
Half or better of these slow pokes are wetbacks.
lol
I’ve always wondered if it’s illegal to drive at exactly the speed limit in the left lane.
Here’s another problem we have in Cali - at least in SoCal. The far left lane is often a carpool lane. There are only legal entrance and exits to the carpool lane every couple of miles. So you have folks on the far left who have to merge sometimes five lines to the right to get off the freeway... and at the same time cars coming onto the freeway who try to merge five lanes to the left to get into the carpool lane. It’s a hazard anytime you change lanes let alone try to change 5 lanes to make the exit/entrance to the carpool lane (And motorcyclists are most at risk from sudden lane changes).
Nevermind the fact that 99% of carpool lane cars were going to be a “carpool” anyway. Couples going somewhere, mothers taking kids to the museum what have you. It’s not that people are planning ahead to carpool to work or back in the vast majority of cases. It’s just people who were already going to be more than 1 in the car anyway.
Good.
Make it at least one point on the record and enough of a fine that it won’t happen again.
Two species of humans I utterly loath and will never condemn *any* punishment of- tailgaters and people who don’t PASS in the passing lane. Both should result in multi-year loss of driving privileges.
Do something about the Somali container transport drivers that run in tandem and take great pleasure in clotting both lanes on I-95.
The companies hiring these types need to be penalized rather than subsidized for adverse diversity.
Stay in the right lane. Please.
They solved that in LA. To use the HOV lanes you have to buy the Pass. And you don’t have to have passengers. Neat huh? The lanes were put in to relieve congestion and now have just heen turned into another revenue stream for the never ending greed of govt.
I remember trying to explain to my mother-in-law that if she chooses to drive slower than the flow of traffic she should use one of the other 2-3 available lanes; that she lacked the authority to force the line of cars backed up behind her to drive the speed limit. Her reply was that it was her right to drive any lane she wanted.
I think her attitude pretty well sums up the situation.
IIRC, there was a study that concluded life in the fast lane can surely make you lose your mind.
“… But a law now arbitrarily (in a troopers mind) setting a lower speed limit in the left lane, when many use the left lane to drive anywhere from 10 to 30 over the limit, puts the average driver in a quandary. Whats too fast or too slow when the general traffic is is doing 85 in a 65 or 90 in a 70?”
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It’s UNRELATED TO EITHER THE POSTED SPEED LIMIT or to a higher MAXIMUM speed that an individual driver may think reasonable. If you are in the left lane and there’s a car APPROACHING OR “HANGING” behind you and you’re not passing a car, MOVE OVER to another lane and let the car(s) behind you pass. Do that even if you’re doing thirty miles over the speed limit.
Don’t be a Karen deciding that you are going to enforce what you think is a reasonable maximum speed.
2+ lanes...
I haven’t heard about that. I heard they were plotting to turn the HOV lane into a rich person’s lane, but never heard about it being implemented. There are some express roads but I think those are private roads outside of LA. AFAIK it doesn’t work in LA.
In other parts of the state, the HOV lane is only active during rush hour on week days; otherwise open to all. But not in SoCal.
(another revenue stream for the never ending greed of govt)
Which is great. Buddy just had to pay $28 to look up a speeding ticket for the exact date - security clearance thing.
AFTER he paid because it charges first, of course, records don’t go back 4 years.
More money for government agencies!!!
Don’t know if it was county or state.
My question “ Whats too fast or too slow when the general traffic is is doing 85 in a 65 or 90 in a 70?” was with respect to where some trooper is going to decide to ticket me.
Codifying things that should be common courtesy has its down side. Its annoying when grandma (or Karen) is driving 25 in a 45, but to say its worthy of having her cited or arrested is over the top. Its not what I want my tax paid for law enforcement to be focused on.
The passing lane should be for passing, but that is not always the case, particularly when the traffic volume exceeds the lane capacity.
More people worrying about stupid sh*t. This does nothing useful for society or for anyone. Just more nanny state crap.
Exactly. A year or so ago I was driving down one highway in which they had been doing some sort of work in the right lane, and it had some discontinuity about every 40 feet or so, and it shook the vehicle every time I hit one.
I finally got sick of it and moved to the left lane, which was clear of this problem, and I just said "let them catch me."
I have noticed on a lot of highways that the right lane is often damaged and rough. It is a pain in the @$$ to drive in it.
Of course when you make everyone drive in one lane, it is going to do more damage to it than if you drove in both. I also notice that when approaching big cities, both lanes are filled up, so the law is just stupid.
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