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Originally Posted by woob
Respectfully disagree with you on this one. If there is line of 5 cars doing 100 and I'm doing 120, as Tiger said, I'm passing all 5 of those cars regardless of whether there is someone doing 130 behind me or not and whether there is a slot for me to get into the right lane or not. Just because he's doing 130 does not mean he gets priority over me. We're both going faster than the normal flow of traffic, so let off the gas a bit, wait for me to pass at 120, then you can bump it back up to 130 once I'm done passing.
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I guess it all depends on how much of a gap there is. A few car lengths? Not a good idea. But sometimes people like to stay in the left lane because in about 20 seconds they'll be passing someone else. If there's time and room to get over without endangering anyone, you should. I agree that you shouldn't have to slam on the brakes to get into a tiny gap.
After re-reading Tiger's post, I may have lost their main point by interpreting the second paragraph as a separate statement. On it's own it sounded ignorant. In the context of passing cars with no possible gap to move into, it seems reasonable. I apologize if I misinterpreted that - in my mind I pictured someone cruising in the left lane at their own arbitrary speed limit, even after finishing their passing.
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Originally Posted by Tiger
If we are talking about people going less than the speed limit than yes stick to the right... if you are talking about speeding than Shut the F up and don't tell me I'm more in the wrong than you are because I'm only going 10 over and your going faster.
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I think that gist of what myself and others are saying is: if you're done passing, move over. If there's a gap, move over. And if someone is passing in front of you but you want to go faster, give them a bit of time and room and they'll hopefully do the safe thing and get back over to the right when an opportunity presents. Provided they are looking for that opportunity.