We had an SC state trooper address our company one day and he said he has ticketed people for driving the speed limit in the left lane if they were backing up traffic. Not ticketed for speeding mind you.
We had an SC state trooper address our company one day and he said he has ticketed people for driving the speed limit in the left lane if they were backing up traffic. Not ticketed for speeding mind you.
z31maniac wrote: I drive the speed limit, in the right lane. The occasional move for a merging car. I've found my commute to be much less stressful this way. It was really fun when I still had the 5.0.
I find mine WAAAAAY more stressful in the slow lane. Tailgaters, constant pockets of traffic, checking mirrors more frequently. I much prefer to blow past the pockets, find my "happy place" and set the cruise at 10-15 over.
What I find way more annoying than the standard left lane hog, is the person who comes flying past everyone in the left lane but will not for the life of them get beside a semi.
The stretch of I75N between Chattanooga and Knoxville is the worst spot in the world for this. I'll be in the right lane closing on a Semi, check my mirrors, see a car closing on me and out of courtesy not cut over in front of them. As soon as they get to the rear bumper of the semi they'll slow the berkeley down and ride there for mile on end. Usually GA tags.
nicksta43 wrote: What I find way more annoying than the standard left lane hog, is the person who comes flying past everyone in the left lane but will not for the life of them get beside a semi.
A lot of that has to do with target fixation. People will generally drive a constant speed until they have a car in front of them, which they will then speed up until they get about 10 ft off their bumper. Likewise, when they come upon a semi, they fixate on the trailer, even if it's in the other lane. The same thing happens with people who speed up while being passed, they have something to reference their speed off of and realize they're going slow.
The worst case of lane hogging is a semi going 65.1mph passes another going 65, piling up about 50 cars behind over the 10 miles it takes to complete the pass. Then it's like driving the Daytona 500 for about 30min as everybody is pissed off and speeding until traffic spreads out.
I drive quite a bit, mostly in NYS. I've got to say the worst drivers I've seen are in MD, followed by NYC, MA, and Atlanta. Rochester has some really bad road ragers and Syracuse is pretty bad as well. Buffalo is pretty well behaved except for commuting times. I never knew until that map that we had a law about the left lane. I have NEVER seen it enforced. The staties are too busy hiding under bridges writing speeding tickets because the state is broke. Speeding tickets = $$$$
In reply to Bababooey:
Too bad they're not pilots and fly into a damn mountain.
Type Q wrote: Unless you have driven in Boston and vicinity you have no frame of reference to declare any place to have "The Worst Drivers."
I've never driven in Boston so can't comment on it. I can say that everybody complains about the amount of Columbia SC traffic but it's not the numbers. Even in rush hour it's not that bad from an amount standpoint. Now, what the traffic lacks in sheer numbers is more than compensated by a just plain inability to drive and a lack of basic common sense.
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