Try driving 459 or 20/59 in right hand lane and following happens. You will rear-end a car going 45mph when speed limit is 70 mph gauranteed. You will wear your car out with all the pot-holes or trenches. Someone will come in from exit and jam you up or run all over you. Best option set cruise at 75 and ride left hand lane. GET IN THE RIGHT HAND LANE IF YOU DARE. Wave at me next time!
Ever drove up east coast to New York. Traffic is bumper to bumper with speed limit 70 and everybody going 85 to keep from getting run over?

I would be interested to know if a ticket has EVER been written for this. I doubt it. I don't know the number of times that I am driving next\behind a LEO and some other yahoo does something illegal and the LEO just keeps motoring along.

I know people who after being stopped have asked the cop "why aren't you solving a real crime". I would bet that the chance of someone being killed in traffic is much greater than a robbery, burglary, home invasion etc.

So many stupid people out there. I for one would not mind having to re-take the driving test when renewing my license.

I'm pretty sure they passed a similar law in FL a couple of years back but they don't enforce it.

Another thing that grips me is why people including cops very rarely turn into the near lane when turning onto a 4 lane highway. They act like they're driving and 18 wheeler or something. Drivers will go across the near lane into the far lane when turning, then go a couple hundred yards and get back over. If everyone would always turn into the near lane it would be safer, and the lane going the opposite direction that is trying to turn could turn into their closest lane at the same time which would allow traffic to flow much better.

Yes, without a doubt. Stopping in a merge lane to see if there's any traffic and then slowly heading out.

Or ... approaching an on-ramp or merge lane with someone in it and they're not speeding up to merge in front of you or slowing down to merge behind you, yet they get pissed because you don't slow down "to let them in."

It's a DAMNED MERGE LANE. Learn how to use it.

And turn signals, too.

And don't slam on your brakes 30 feet from where you're going to turn.

And if there's a turn lane, GET IN THE DAMED LANE instead of riding halfway through it until you turn.

And speeding through neighborhoods and parking lots. Slow the $#*! down.

Idiots behind the wheel.

Just so you will know when traveling to FL, it is state law to move over and slow down 20 below the posted speed limit when any LEO or emergency vehicle is on the side of the road. Many times they work in two's. One making the traffic stops for speeeding, and a secondary LEO giving tickets to drivers who don't ahere to this law. I know this is an Alabama site but many on here travel into Florida so I thought I would make sure you are aware...

This is a biggie for me. Any idiot who gets in a hurry in a parking lot where a little one could dart out in front of you at any time is beyond my comprehension...

HA! you think it's bad up there, come down here in the Land of the Idots!!

The Left hand lane is now the slow, talking on the phone, texting, I dunno where I am, no obligations, no responsibility,
nowhere to be lane.

At least ya'll got two lanes to work with.

Yall seriously need sensitivity training & a bottle of vallium. Drive the freaking speed limit & there wont be a problem. It's called a speed limit for a reason & its my duty as a model citizen to make sure you uphold it.

Idiots that set their cruise at 70 or just above then ride in the left lane are the ones that cause the major pile ups on the interstate. Why on Gods green earth would anyone run 71 and 1/2 miles per hr for 5 miles backing up traffic with a running road block in order to pass someone? Excelerate on the gas, Pass, and get the heck out of the way.

Don't joy ride in the left lane. It's called a passing lane for a reason.

If someone is driving 71 and 1/2 miles per hr their breaking the law! The speed limit is 70mph

Not that the simpletons read or comprehends signs - some states signs say -- KEEP RIGHT EXCEPT TO PASS - this is what they should all say.

Others say SLOWER TRAFFIC KEEP RIGHT -this sign leaves it up to the idiot to decide whether or not they are slower traffic.

This has been a pet peeve of mine for years -I'm probably grey headed because of bad drivers -I try not even think about it anymore.
I knew a guy in Mississippi who would follow bad drivers then damage their car and leave them a note. It seemed to really help a guy in his neighborhood who drove a red dodge truck.

So how many tickets have you had over the years?

Driving in California is a breeze. Even LA ain't bad.

Chicago is where driving hell burns hottest.
It has taken me 4-5 hours to get through Chicago on 94. 294 ain't any better.

NYC runs a close second. The bad thing is they charge you to drive there. It cost me $100 to get out on the Island.

Also, for y'all that gripe about 18 wheelers not getting over, 1) they don't have to,(by law, the merging vehicle has to yield), and 2) most of the time you can't see the car on the other side preventing them from getting over.

The number one problem on the road is tailgating. That's what causes the vast majority of wrecks and almost all traffic jams.

The second thing is waiting to merge. If the sign says right lane is closed, don't haul balls to the front of the right lane, then slam on your brakes to jump in the left lane.

Trust me, I'm a professional.

HaHaHa..My license has been suspended 3 times(In my younger years) if that helps answer your question..

Never suspended here but close. Wife got a speeding ticket ( her one and only ) back several years ago when you could get them taken care of. Well our contact said no problem but if it were your husband we might have to run him in. You know that lead foot doesn't help when we raced probable everything under the sun.

I assume you kidding and just trying to stir it a bit...

But if you are serious, then you have a serious issue with logic when it comes to safe driving. Idiots who ride in the left lane (unless traffic is bumper to bumper in both lanes) have no regard for anyone's saftey including their own.

Things to to consider when comes to safe driving.
1. Just because you obey the law doesn't mean everyone is going to, and it's not your job to put yourself and everyone else in harms way to enforce it.

2. Slower traffic in right lane, doesn't mean people driving below the speed limit, it means anyone driving slower than the vehicle that is behind them. So if someone comes up behind you and you are in the left lane joy riding then you are supposed to move to the right hand lane and get out of the way if possible. It has no relevance to who's driving the speed limit. The logic behind the rules of safe driving is to keep traffic from bunching up, to keep it moving, and to keep drivers from darting and weaving through traffic when passing slower vehicles. Not to mention there will be much less road rage.

3. I would just ask the question of WHY? What are you accomplishing? What possible logical reason would anyone do this knowing that it is causing traffic to pile up behind them, or at the very least causing traffic to have to weave around them in the slower lane, which is much more dangerous than just moving over and letting the traffic go?

If the road conditions are bad and it is safer in the left lane then drive there but move over when someone is coming up behind you, pretty simple...

So apparently the entire state of LA, MS, and AL read this thread and just knew exactly when I'd be driving home from work this afternoon! UGH! Every slow azzhat was in the LEFT lane. GET OUT OF MY WAY!!!

I never had road rage before...but I'll admit I have it now. LOL