[woob]

I like to think of myself as a courteous driver. I usually cruise at about 125 or slower, stick to the right lane, and am always watching my mirrors. (honestly, I think that's a lot of the problem as well; some people are oblivious, and much like they have no sense of situational awareness when they walk on the plus 15 and decide to stop in a front of a doorway to talk, they have no awareness of what's going on around them when they drive)

I drive back from the mountains many times during the summer. Typically, I encounter 8-10 instances of tailgating by someone doing 140 while I am passing on my drives home (this is from the highway 93 merge on to TransCanada back to Calgary). It doesn't seem to happen as much on the trip out I find, mostly just coming home.

On the flip side, I usually encounter 3-4 instances of a left lane donkey that actually causes me to pass on the right. When doing this, I typically sit a safe distance behind them and give them the opportunity to prove they're not a buffoon and then if after 2-3 minutes they don't move, I pass on the right and honk at them as I am doing so.

As many before me have stated in this thread, if people were simply more courteous to other drivers, there'd be a lot less rage on this topic. Additionally, people need to go back to basics; watch your mirrors, signal to INDICATE you want to change lanes and change when safe to do so, shoulder check and don't just rely on your mirrors, and give yourself plenty of room between you and the car in front. ESPECIALLY on a highway @ 120km/h. Of course, the only bad thing about leaving distance on a busy highway, is people often use that as their opportunity to change lanes, since they have no idea what is a safe distance to leave between themselves and the car in front.