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Your whole comment is entitlement. If the vehicle in the passing lane is going the speed limit, or matching the speed of cars traveling in the other lane, then sure, you have an argument.
But if traffic in the center lane is moving at 70 mph, and the car in front of you is traveling at 75 mph in the passing lane, but you're doing 80+, guess what?!
You can flash your lights and use every blinker in your car that you want, you're reckless driving, traveling at speeds that are unsafe, and the cop that pulls you over isn't gonna give a flying fuck that you were in the passing lane.
And y'know how I can tell you view the passing lane as a personal camping lane? Because you never indicated that you, or the people flashing their lights/blinkers/horns/whatever, ever move back over. The left lane is not for camping, it's for passing and then merging back over.
No one needs to move more quickly because you feel the need for speed, or are late for who fucking cares. You wanna drive fast? Take your shitbox to a track and drive like an asshole to your hearts content.
So unless those lights you're flashing are red and blue with a siren, you can kiss my sweet, 5 mph-over-the-speed-limit driving ass.
No it's efficiency and common sense. If people behind you want to pass and you have space to move out of the passing lane move. Then they can go the speed they want to go and you can go the speed you want to go. What you're saying is they should have to go the speed you want to go, why?
There's lots of this sentiment on this platform, and the answer is simple, they're power hungry little trolls with nothing better going on in their lives than inconveniencing other people on the freeway so that they can feel some measure of control over another person.
Explain to me, under what circumstances, you need to go more than 10 mph over the speed limit. Don't pull "my wife is in labor" or "I severed my hand" or some nonsense, if a car is coming up and making it obvious they're in distress, fine, that's one thing.
But literally no other justification exists other than "hur dur I want go fast vroom vroom." You're endangering the lives of everyone around you because you feel everyone should make way for you. It's entitlement, and it's reckless driving.
"The speed you want to go" is a very disingenuous way to describe the speed limit
What the fuck do you think this post is about?
Breaking the law, which brings us back around to entitlement. It is not my responsibility to enable anyones reckless driving. If I am no longer passing someone I will happily get over, but until then you all can slow your impatient ass's down and wait for once in your life. I'd much rather you be behind me than in front when you inevitably get into an accident.
Because you're not entitled to go the speed you want to go. If there's nineteen cars behind you and the car in front is only going half a mile an hour faster than the people they're passing... sure. But if you're one car and they're one car, you are not entitled to go any faster than they are. They're entitled to go the speed they want... because they got their first. You want to go faster? Wait your fucking turn.
Don't argue with traffic. They like being part of something. 🤣
It's more efficient to switch lanes less often than it is to speed. Myth busters covered this. People speeding in the left lane are the ones causing problems. Take some anxiety medication if you can't deal with it.
Um I guess you forgot the results of that test.... Changing lanes got to the destination faster, not always by a large amount but obviously there are always other factors. But don't let facts get in the way of your biases.
Maybe it was the number of other more scientific studies that I remember.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378437123006155