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Originally Posted by Cube Inmate
Okay T'ball: I'm driving @ 85 in an 80 zone, in the right lane. Somebody's following me at the same speed. I see someone going 75 ahead of me, so I plan to make a lane change and go around him... check left mirror--lane's clear...check rearview mirror--guy behind me isn't changing lanes...shoulder check...signal...change lanes. Safe, right? Nope! Asshat going at 110 cruised up behind us in the same lane and blew into the passing lane while I was making my move.
Should I have seen him? Nope. Hidden behind other traffic. Should he have seen me? If he's got eyes in the front of his head, you bet your ass he should have. He should also *expect* that others will be going slower...if he can't handle that, then he shouldn't be going so damn fast.
Rearview mirrors are small; You can't control what people do behind you. You can, on the other hand, control the space in front of you and you should be able to see everything important going on for hundreds of metres. If you can't understand the difference here, then just let me know which roads you frequent and I'll change my route.
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Say that car behind you is a truck and you're a car on a flat road. He wouldn't see you just as you couldn't see him in your rear view due to the truck between you two. Also you're talking about doing 85 in an 80 zone as opposed to doing 80 in a 100 zone like everyone else is talking about. Yeah speeding is unsafe, no one is arguing that it is safe. We're only arguing that going too slow for the flow of
traffic (plural as in more than one asshat on the road) is also unsafe. Using Deerfoot as an example the left lane primarily goes at 120. Yes those in the left lanes are unsafe and illegally speeding, but once again your job is to navigate our roads as safe as possible which means staying away from danger (
Ie those in the left hand lane speeding.)