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Originally Posted by btimbit
It's not just a passing lane though, Too many people get "Keep right except to pass" confused with "Slower traffic keep right." in this situation, it's the latter. They aren't the same thing
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This. The law isn't 'any vehicle in the left lane must move into the right lane whenever a car is closing the gap from behind.' It's slower vehicles - those doing under the speed limit - keep right.
It's funny that nobody has mentioned speed yet. Do people really think that if a driver in the left lane is doing 10k over the speed limit he is legally obliged to move over to let a car doing 15k over the speed limit pass? That police would really ticket a driver who wouldn't yield the left lane to the egregious speeder?
And some roads are simply too congested for the left lane to be devoted to passing only.
Sometimes it's gonna take 2 minutes longer to do that 2 hr drive. Best just to take a deep breath and enjoy the ride.