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Originally Posted by opendoor
I think you're greatly underestimating how long a pass should take. The pass as described (3 vehicles going 110 km/h being passed by a car going 120 km/h) would take more than 30 seconds. With a 10 km/h speed differential, 30 seconds will gain you about 80 meters on the cars in the right lane. Even if you only allow a second between each of the 3 vehicles (and add the same behind the last vehicle and in front of the first one to allow for safe lane changes) that's about 200 meters you need to gain on them to pass. Even if you're going 140 km/h the pass would still take 25 seconds to make.
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I would argue if you're only going to go 10km/hr faster than the people you're passing than you weren't really a candidate to pass.
This is something that gets overlooked in these debates, imo. At what speed above the middle lane cars is it appropriate to take up the left lane to pass? If you're deciding that you need to pass guys because of a 10km/hr difference I'd say that's a selfish pass that will almost assuredly cause left lane issues in decent to heavy traffic.
10km/hr more than traffic = a ****ty pass. I wouldn't be surprised if this is a common, overlooked issue with a lot of the posters always talking about "maniacs" and "dooshbags" coming up behind them. I'm with the guy who said that if you're passing properly and considerately (aka looking to see if someone is already in the process of passing and not just pulling out regardless of what's going on in the left land behind you) than "maniacs" coming up behind you really shouldn't be a common occurrence.