• Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    18 hours ago

    Why does the guys in the middle lane have to be driving slow? The speed limit is usually 65 on highways by me, and if the fella is doing 75, can he not stay in the middle lane? If he is not getting off for a time, 75 in the middle lane seems reasonable? He could be doing 80 and this scenario can still happen.

    You’ll have the guy in the truck come up behind you doing 90. Is the car really slow, at ten over the speed limit? Or is the car only slow once someone fast doing 90 shows up? Why must the barely rule abiding citizen, yeild to the blatant speeder?

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      18 hours ago

      The speed limit is usually 65 on highways by me, and if the fella is doing 75, can he not stay in the middle lane?

      Traffic flows more smoothly when drivers keep to the right when possible, even if you’re speeding a little bit.

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        11 hours ago

        I swear my drivers ed book said the right most lane is for entering/exiting the highway, middle lane is for cruising, and left lane for passing.

        Y’all I cursed myself anyway, just drove the highway today, I don’t have to take it often these days, and no less then three times was a fella in the left lane doing 60mph. I get the gripe, I don’t understand the need to go 90. But that’s me and kind of irrelevant unless theres a left exit to take.

        I think there are as many drivers who should get some patience for others, as there are folks who need to move tf over. Both are dangerous to other drivers.

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        14 hours ago

        If that were true there should be only two lanes per direction, and no use to the third lane.

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        17 hours ago

        What BS. So everyone in right lane who goes slower then YOU. is the answer.

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      16 hours ago

      The determining factor isn’t speed, it’s the availability of the right lane. If there aren’t any vehicles to your right, that’s where you belong.

      I don’t care if I’m doing 90, if there is no one slower than me that I’ll catch up to in the next 20-30 seconds, I move right.

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        14 hours ago

        That’s terrifying for any car that now has to merge onto a highway starting at 90mph

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          14 hours ago

          Why would they have to do that? If they’re in front of me, I’ll move left to pass. If they’re behind me, they’re already behind me. Have you never driven on a highway before? This is pretty standard stuff.

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            9 hours ago

            If you’re speeding, you won’t be likely to see them in time to move over.

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            14 hours ago

            If they merge in front of you and you were going 90 in the right lane because it was “empty”, you are personally trying to recreate a train by merging your cars together.

            Choosing to go as fast as you want in the most unpredictable lane is bad driving even if you consider it standard bad practice.

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              13 hours ago

              So, I suppose I’ll have to move left, as I said. Or, if the left lane isn’t available I guess I’ll have to summon up the energy to lift my right foot a bit, accelerators can be in more than one position.

              This is not a difficult concept. Allowing someone to merge is a perfectly normal thing. I don’t understand how you don’t understand this.

              Reading your comments is like watching one of those commercials for some cheap gadget that “solves” a problem I can’t believe exists. You know the ones, where some hapless dweeb is struggling and fumbling to complete some simple task then looks at the camera and says “If only there was an easier way!” You can’t believe anyone would buy this thing, but then you think if people this stupid didn’t exist, neither would these commercials.

              I guess what I’m saying is, assuming you’re not just being contrary or trying to justify your own shitty driving, if you really think simple highway tasks are this hard, then for your own sake, since you obviously don’t give a shit about anyone else, stick with surface streets and stay off the highway.

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                13 hours ago

                I’m not gonna live your fantasy, nor legitimize it.

                Your insistence that I don’t see things your way when at the root level I disagree with it is not changing me. Nor your petty insistence that I am somehow incompetent for being safe and cautious about driving instead of… Self indulgent.

                You share the highway with people that aren’t you. Get used to it.

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                  12 hours ago

                  Are you hangry? Maybe you could boil an egg. You could go to your drawer(s) filled with single purpose gadgets and dust off that egg slicer you got for three easy payments of $9.99.

                  While the water boils and the egg cooks you can use that time to convince yourself that the slicer is a totally normal thing to have and not at all indicative of an inability to perform simple tasks that others take for granted.

                  That’s assuming you don’t have another gadget that allows you to avoid that Herculean task by cooking the egg in the microwave…yet. If you do have one, I’m sure you can find time think about it on your commute while you’re oblivious to the chaos you’re causing around you.

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                    11 hours ago

                    What on earth is up with you and this childish notion of comparing me to kitchen gadgets? You clearly have a problem with other people that is not mine to solve, even if it makes you seem cruel towards accessibility.

                    Its really weird.

                    Also still disagree with you and will it take driving advice from someone I am stating is clearly following bad driving habits.