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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
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.
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Edit, I was wrong, and spiteful.
"keep right, except to pass". If you aren't passing, get out of that lane.
"Slower traffic, keep right" have to be at or near speed limit or passing to be in the left lane. But common sense if everyone is going 120 and you are going 110, move over!
There's also rules about motorcades, which these people were part of. Unless you are in a funeral procession, you can't impede traffic when in a motorcade. They would have been wiser and safer to be all single file, even still, I doubt they were "technically" impeding traffic.