All states should be as committed to getting slow pacers out of the left lane as they are to speed tickets. Idiots who get in the left lane and pace the cars to the right of them are the cause of at least as many accidents as speeders. It doesn’t matter if you’re doing the speed limit - if you’re not a member of the highway patrol, move to the right and let people who want to go faster get by.
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.
I was following an old guy who was in the left lane matching the speed of the car in the right lane next to him at about 5 mph BELOW the speed limit. to my left was the HOV lane, but I didn’t have anyone else in the car. I waited for him to speed up or slow down, but no soap. I then passed him in the HOV lane He got really pissed about it blew the horn and speeded up to get behind me, but I was willing to go faster than he was and left him behind. All I can say is that he was deliberately being an a$$hole and trying to get on peoples’ nerves.