Gotta love how everyone thinks they are doing more good by impeding traffic. They are actually making things more dangerous for everyone, yet they sit there with a percieved moral superiority.
Should make it illegal to have someone pass you on the right (not illegal to pass right, read it again). Makes it easier for officers to enforce and people will start to regulate theirselves or get tickets.
Let me tell a story about how a left lane hog ruined my life: I got a call late one evening from my GF’s best friend. She told me that my GF was in the hospital about to miss-carry our baby. I looked at my clock and saw that I had exactly 30 minutes to make the last ferry boat of the night to make the 2 hour drive (and ferry ride) to see her in the hospital. I grabbed a toothbrush and a change of clothes and ran out the door! As soon as I entered the freeway I could see two cars driving side-by-side in the two lanes of the highway ahead of me. They were both going 5 miles/hr under the speed limit and they were literally the only cars I could see on the highway. They both refused to do anything to allow me to pass for several exits. Eventually I was able to get around them, but apparently the lady who was blocking the left lane didn’t think I should be allowed to pass her, so she called the cops. I got pulled over, did not get a ticket, but as you can guess, I did not make that ferry because of the delay. I drove all the way there to see the ferry pulling away. I then had to turn around and drive another 4 hours to get to the hospital and by then, she had already miscarried and was home crying. I wasn’t able to even drive my GF home from the hospital after we lost our baby because some woman felt entitled to block traffic in the left lane. Put that in your pipe and smoke it entitled Lane hogs. Your actions destroy the lives of fellow Americans and you don’t even care!!!
Or did she save your GF from losing two of the most precious things in her life? Just food for thought. Sorry for your loss, sincerely. My wife and I lost our first to miscarriage as well. I was bitter for a while but now have two amazing daughters after choosing to live overseas for a while after the miscarry. I like to think all the amazing things we experienced were inspired by our loss.
My wife and I are both firefighters and EMT's, I can honestly say people in the left do increase our response times. We've had to pass people in the right lane cause they won't get over even for an emergency vehicle running lights and siren.
@@markf5314 Oklahoma, we have that too. We also had a law go into effect last November making it illegal to drive in the left lane lol. People completely disregard all the signs on the highways they put up too "Do Not Impede Left Lane".
I wonder how this affects mortality rates? I often have noticed, in Portland Oregon in particular, there's a big crowd of subaru outback drivers that seem to take joy in purposefully slowing others down. I often wonder what medications they are on, and also: they tend to drive with the window shade down 24/7. I often wonder if they have depression issues or simply lack control over their lives, so they want to "take control" over other peoples lives. The ones with the bumper stickers are the worst offenders. Then upon passing them, they tend to do something passive aggressive: horn honks, speeding up, trying to keep up with you in the corners (hahaha, subarus understeer SO BAD when stock, so it's hilarious when they attempt this), flashing high beams, etc. Prius drivers used to be the worst, but they've been eclipsed by the outback / subaru drivers atleast in the PNW. The Subaru is the "I'm not sure what to buy, I'm risk adverse, I want to "Fit in" (instead of just buying winter tires), type of individuals.
“Slower traffic stay right”. It is a law in most states. It is rather self explanatory. Left lane hogs are infuriating, especially when dealing with emergency vehicles.
It's hard to enforce those laws. With short staffed and underfunded police, plus public ignorance and paranoia, they go for the easy mark, speeding. I postulate that running red lights, left lane losers, and tailgating are all more dangerous than someone going 10 over. But since enforcement of these thing requires an actual PATROL, instead of just parking and flipping on a radar gun, it doesn't happen.
@@PaintedCavern On surface streets, yes. On the highways, you only move to the right without stopping. Unless of course traffic has stopped. But, when you approach an emergency vehicle that is stopped on the shoulder of the highway, such as a cop that has pulled someone over, or a tow truck, you must move to the left and give them a one full lane buffer. At least thats how it is in Michigan.
Barry Walker by road design (in non congested or rural four lanes), there shouldn't be people going faster than you if you're in the left lane. You, travelling in the right lane see a slow moving vehicle, say truck struggling up a hill at 60 in a 70, 1) check mirrors and head check while signalling 2) move deliberately accelerating into the left lane 3) accelerate to a comfortable overtake speed 4) pass the truck and return to the right lane now going about 70ish +/- 5mph Here's where the anger starts. 1) There's a hotrodder far behind you wanting to go 85 but you are in the midst of your safe pass when he catches up, starts twitching, cussing, flashing and had to (horrors) cancel his cruise control. He can just damned well wait for you to complete your pass at the passing speed you have selected, and then he will pass you as you return right at a safe interval in front of the truck. Or 2) you're passing the truck and see several other vehicles a half mile or more ahead and decide you may as well just stay in the left lane...which causes the hotrodders to rightly get impatient and have to pass you on the right, cutting off the truck and almost clipping your bumper. You guys know that sooner or later you have been #1 or #2. Avoid that. The hotrodder is a bully trying to act like an ambulance and force others off the road, be it a track fantasy bike, a Tesla, a BMer, a ricer, a Charger/Mustang/Camaro or an Ecsalade. You still must wait your turn, despite the belief you are a Road God. #2 is the Prius SJW who is trying to select the appropriate speed for the entire highway. Oh in a traffic jam, just fill all the lanes to stack the traffic symmetrically (emergency vehicles use the shoulder) and keep moving with as safe an interval as possible. Until the jam clears or you reach the obstruction, stay in whatever lane you were stacked into. Numerous stupid lane changes in a jam only makes the jam take longer, and we all know it.
Oregon Motorcycle whether they're driving 50 or 90...they are still left lane hogs. Be it hot sport bike, Tesla S, Lambo, Charger, Prius, Mommy van, Stang or Nissan Sentra. Use the left lane and then clear it for the next person to use it.
Once I was doing about 85 in a 65, and a cop came up behind me flashing his lights. I got the hell out of his way and he took off. It's a part of the freeway everybody speeds on, and the cop understood this. To follow the speed limit would have meant clogging up traffic for miles back.
In Illinois the state troopers have actually started cracking down on this and putting up social media posts informing people about the illegality of it. So despite Illinois sucking at pretty much everything, at least the state police are enforcing this law lol
Hell a lot of us with modified or simple high performance cars like lambos and stuff can go 20, 30, even 40 over perfectly safely in some situations, like when you're in the dead of day with 3 miles of open highway in front of you.
@@Prestiged_peck the limits are set with the lowest performing vehicles and most incompetent drivers in mind. It is aggravating that because some rusted old f150 can only drive a certain stretch of road at a certain speed I have to drive my amg within those same limits
In the mountains here we have 2 type of drivers: Drivers that mind their own business (drivers that either pass you driving consistently at a steady pace, or allow you to pass them with no hassles in passing zones if going slow themselves), And the types of drivers that like to drive 5-10 mph under the speed limit everywhere and then speed up to about 15mph over the speed limit in the few and far-between passing zones as they don't want you to pass them because its all about them, and you must abide by their set pace. These people deserve jail.
@@ThatWasPrettyFunny I know. You read the cars body language all while giving off non threatening body language of you own. Then pick your spot like a jockey in the Kentucky Derby and charge. It's dangerous to follow these people.
Most dumbest drivers are in southern bc they will drive 70 or 80 km an hr through the twist and turns just to be an ass when the speed limit is 100km an hr. Then when a rare passing lane appears the guy who is going slow will floor it making sure no one can pass him. Then when he gets back in the twists and turns he go's back to 70 or 80 km an hr. It makes for a dangerous situation because he make a big convoy and every one starts to get frustrated and pass on dangerous areas almost creating accidents.
Jezza Clarkson summed this up in one sentence; "If there's room for me to undertake you, there was room for you to get out of the way in the first place"
@@christopherpape4823 yep; as in the UK we drive on the left, passing on the left is the dangerous way. In short, its passing a driver on their blind side. Its quite illegal in the UK and we are trained rigorously not to do it. So passing lane hogs can hold up an entire freeway. Having lived in California for years, I now just undertake them if theres room.
@@throwback19841 Passing on the left is not technically illegal in the UK, but it can be considered to be driving dangerously which very much is so it's quite a grey area in terms of the law.
@@SerenaBluee Hmmm... that's very interesting to me, I know for sure in Spain it is illegal to pass on the right on the highway, and police do enforce this heavly, and you will most definetly get pulled over if you drive on the passing lane just for the sakes of it.
I had someone yell, ”F*** you” because I flashed him a couple times when he was going 15 below in the far left lane, with cars to the right going faster than him. Also lane discipline need to be taught in driver’s ed classes. My driver’s ed teacher never once mentioned lane discipline.
Some people really do believe that they should be in charge of the flow of traffic, they will linger in the left lane at the speed limit, they will watch as many cars pass others to the right of them, and they refuse to get out of the left lane. Making the roadways unsafe with multiple motorists, merging multiple lanes, to go around them, when they could simply get out of the left lane and allow people to flow ahead of them.
@@mikeb5352 Yep, pull to right (barely enough to pass, just a few inches off their passenger door), Cut them off, shunt them(lay on brakes), tell them they're number 1 (with the middle finger).
I've honestly not thought about these rules as aiding the "flow of traffic". It makes sense to me, now that it's been said, that causing multiple lane changes can cause more problems.
I've noticed it's a regional thing. I lived out west and down south for a few years and people had no idea how the left lane works. Then I moved back to Michigan and people were literally running me off the road for not driving 85 plus in the passing lane. It was a nice welcome home to get flipped off by my fellow Michiganders. .
Tim I, I hope you realize that when you come “down south”, the poor driving habits are typically not those of the locals but from those that have moved here... primarily from the northeast. In Florida, we didn’t go from 5 million to 20 million+ residents, in
John H I agree. Most locals in my area know how to drive. It’s the people migrating from California that drive irresponsibly. I’ve never ridden with a friend that chills in the fast lane with traffic behind him or her.
For sure. I live in CT on the CT/MA line. MA enforces left lane discipline more (still not enough, but whatever) so when in MA it's not as bad, but as soon as you cross the line into CT, you can be sure there will be someone blocking the left lane.
@@dividedstatesofamerica2520 90%? Think about how many people drive cars everyday just to use them to get to work or the store. Hundreds of millions of cars exist and are being driven in the US. The ratio of bad/uneducated drivers to people seeing this video is probably a massive discrepancy.
Literally just yesterday watched a severe rear end accident due to lane splitting on motorcycles, and IMPROPER USAGE OF LANES. We should talk about motorcycle etiquette a bit Casey!
I did. FYI Casey, your beeps for bleep-out are way too loud! Check your audio output before rendering, amigo. 🤐 Again, you're right-on about the topic and the validity of the responses. You're well spoken, logical, and level-headed. And as you so astutely pointed out, this issue need readdressing in driver's education (we were taught proper lane discipline fifty years ago, but twenty years ago I had to teach my kids about it because it wasn't covered). I think the reason that vid went "viral" is because RUclips started popping it up as a suggested video on our home screens (maybe people who'd shown interest in cars). I'd never heard of you before that. Cheers! 🍻
Casey Putsch And even if they are somehow helping (which their not), it just results in people getting pissed off and often making rash/dangerous maneuvers to get around them.
When you see someone driving slow (left lane or not) with a line of cars behind them, they look in the mirror and say "good thing I left when I did, if I left a minute later I would have been stuck behind all this traffic." It never occurs to them that they are causing that line of traffic, and it doesn't matter when they left, they would be causing a line of traffic behind them.... When I first heard that, it was a huge "ah ha" moment to all the oblivious drivers out there.
That's just the thing, they don't look in the mirror, all they see is that long open road in front of them.....oh,and of course their phone that they are texting on while driving.
David Watt yeah have you seen that Canada’s worst driver show it’s similar in America where it seems even awful drivers who can’t even read and understand traffic signs get their license
I'm lucky I rarely come across left lane hogs in Michigan and if I do, it seems to be 1) a student driver that's scared to death 2) someone elderly 3) someone handicapped
Several years ago I was rushing my daughter to the hospital in a life and death situation. It was so difficult trying to navigate through people in the left lanes that just won’t move. I was crying and panicking and this just made everything worse. You have no idea what the person behind you is speeding for, they could be rushing a loved one to the hospital, trying to get some place to say good bye to a loved one, maybe as to not miss a birth of their child and yes they could just be hauling ass because they love to speed. I don’t care the reason if someone behind me is going faster I’ll pull over.
@@ThatWasPrettyFunny ANYTHING you do can piss off the wrong person, how many times have you accidentally cut someone off or THEY feel you cut them off? Or merged too late or anything of the sort. A man was killed recently, shot at a stop light when he just looked at the driver next to him. Yes the person behind you speeding might be in an emergency but if in their haste, they get in a car accident and or kill someone else, how is THAT going to help them? If the emergency excuse works, so does me speeding if I'm late for work. And yet, I always hear in my head the words of officers I've been with and my late grandfather, if I'm rushing to get somewhere and I get into an accident, I'll never make it there. It's not worth speeding. I've seen so many car accidents where people were speeding and the end results. No thank you. I definitely get frustrated when two semis are hogging both the left and right lanes, for some reason one semi thinks they are faster than the other but they aren't lol. I don't rage over it though, you're an emotional driver if you are and EMOTIONAL drivers are dangerous, it's not everyone else's responsibility to drive on eggshells to not set you off so you don't cause a wreck by swerving in and out of traffic.
Shatto you say “If there are speeding and they get in a accident and kill Someone else how is that helping them” but that would NOT be a issue if people just stuck to the flow of traffic if you can’t keep up with everyone behind you then you need to move simple as that, if you are in the left lane there is no reason what’s so ever should you be going the same speed as the people in all the other right lanes people have the illusion that they need to follow the speed limit on a freeway, the “speed limit” on a free way is whatever the flow of traffic is, a cop isn’t going to pull you over for keeping a constant pace of 85mph in the left lane like everyone else is doing
When I first got my license, I was stationed in California. I was practicing on the highway and people were blowing passed me even though I was going the speed limit. I was thinking " These jackasses are gonna get pulled over real quick and I'm gonna go passed them laughing." And then I was immediately pulled over for impeding traffic. The cop literally told me "Go with the flow of traffic. if everyone is going 100, you go 100 otherwise you're a road hazard" or something to that effect. A real eye opener.
That is my experience in San Diego County re: flow of traffic. Been passed by CHP bike cruising at probably 100 while I and all of lanes 1, 2, and 3 (my lane, out of 5 lanes) were going 90-95 mph average on Interstate 15. Down here at least CHP would rather let traffic flow than quibble with everybody doing 25-30 over.
In the bay are even more so. People will never allow you to sit in the left lane out here, they will aggressively try to pass you. Often the left lane can be 90-100 mph during low traffic periods.
@@beck204 you won’t get pulled over unless you’re the leader or last car of the group of speeders… or something about you or your car stands out. If you’re sandwiched by cars that are going over the limit, cops will let you be. They’ll understand that you’re going with the flow to avoid being the problem. Peace
it is ego-centric driving...when I flash my high beams to pass IN THE PASSING LANE people slam on their brakes and wont get over. Its like they think the left lane is their "personal comfort lane"
I had one guy flip me off...but then he moved over. On the flip side, I was in the right lane at 1 am a few days ago, 4 empty lanes of freeway to my left, and somebody came up behind me and flashed to pass. You can probably imagine the colorful language I used to describe him or her.
Everyone is a selfish driver. _Everyone._ Which is why this argument is so stupid: there is no clear-cut victor, because everyone is a selfish asshole. You know what's worse than being stuck behind a "slow" driver in the left lane? Being stuck behind an _actually-slow_ driver in the middle lane.
I have no problem with a little reminder if I don't move over, as long as I have that option. So many times you go out to pass a few cars and someone else is comes speeding along and immediately is on your ass trying to push you faster. I'll move over when I can, but I won't do 40 over the limit (km/h) to satisfy your need to be ahead of every car you see. Patience is the biggest thing people are lacking on the road, most people know the rules, they just can't be bothered to follow them. If you flashed your lights as soon as you were behind me, I wouldn't brake test you, but you might have to watch me do a 1/4 mile long lane change before I am out of your way. I treat people with the respect they show others.
the only problem is that it is a question on a test and people know how to memorize a test then forget it all on the road... the fact that there isnt mandatory highway section in a license test is obscene... it should be a 2 hour test minimum not a 4 turn one.
"You shouldn't be speeding, I don't have to move so you can break the law" Yeah Karen, you're breaking the law to by failing to yield ROW. I HATE people like that....just move over. No that damned hard.
You are wrong on this one. ROW doesn’t automatically switch to you just because you are speeding. “Karen” in this case would also be wrong as you have no authority to impede another driver unless you are a cop. ROW belongs to the drivers that have it by law.
Yeah, Karen shouldn't be in the passing lane in the first place if she's not passing anybody. Too many people just don't get it that the left lane is the 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 lane, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 the 𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘵 lane. If you are not passing somebody, then you should not be in the 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 lane. It doesn't matter what your speed is: keep right except to pass. There is a complete lack of logic displayed by drivers on American highways. I see a line of cars rolling down the highway in the passing lane, and the travel (right) lane is completely empty. And usually they're not going faster than the speed limit. In those cases, I pass 'em all in the right lane. It's the complete opposite how it's supposed to work. They use the passing lane to travel, and others are forced to use the travel lane to pass. It's how I would expect things to work on Bizarro World. Driving in Europe is so much better. Most people travel in the travel lane and pass in the passing lane. And if there does happen to be a traveler in the passing lane, when you approach him from behind, he moves over!
Liberty or Death last time i checked, road and traffic laws are laws of man. You can choose to follow the laws of physics or laws of gods as much as you want. But when I got that “driver license” paper thing, it was upon agreeing on following the laws of man. The end...
@Liberty or Death That's probably a two way highway with only two lanes if it's 55 mph. Safer that way. Technically he's right about the agreement with the license. Men aren't perfect so why trust them at higher speeds?
This is literally my mother. I love driving and judge poor driving. Always get told by bad drivers "you don't know, I've been driving for over (...) years and you're young...". I find it really frustrating when they use experience over ability to justify their actions. Especially when all the experience is bad ability. Keep it up, love the videos.
Literally everyone in my family. But that is because I am super agressive when I drive. I accelerate fast at the light if I am in the front to make sure the people behind me don't get blocked. And when I see someone in my blindspot, I make sure to accelerate, so they are not stuck in my blindspot.
@mister cleanin in Louisiana. Literally everyday for a 15 minute interstate commute from work to home. In stuck behind some oblivious person trying to merge in 10-15 miles under the limit. I usually am patient, but the second I see I got a clear spot on the left im flooring it to get up to speed and around. Then when I'm doing 5-8 over they come flying by. It's fine I guess but just so goddamn stupid
Ethereal: I don't travel all that often anymore, but I have noticed in some states that there are signs : Slower Traffic Move Right...or words to that effect, yet I often see folks sitting in the left lane when there are no vehicles in either lane to pass. My guess is, that like speed limit signs, folks don't "see" those signs or they believe that doing the speed limit doesn't make them that slower traffic.
"I saw this guy going really fast so I got in front of him and went 15 under, ambulances amirite?" That comment had me in stitches, though it's obviously a troll. Left lane losers would actually do this to an ambulance.
Seen a video of a BMW driver do this shit, actually he brought the ambulance to a dead stop in the middle of an interstate, because of course it was a BMW driver.
that comment was a joke about hypothetically racing an ambulance because it cut him off. "this dude" referred to the ambulance driver and the "nice car" was the ambulance. and "ambulances, amirite?" was the punchline revealing those, therefore completing the joke. jokes are like frogs - when you dissect them, they die and nobody enjoys it anymore but it helps you understand them better in the future
As someone who is a younger driver (I'm 24) I remember very distinctly IN THE TEXTBOOK that common driving law says that the left lane is the passing lane. Yes I may be speeding on my way to work, but always always I get back over into the right lane as soon as it's clear. No matter how fast or slow you're going, stay in the right lane unless you're actively passing someone. Thank you for coming to my educational TED talk
Ohhhhni didn’t get that one either haha, i could understand how Casey would get confused though since he does drive a flashy nice car. Plus no one is really making jokes in the comment section so he kinda took it seriously
@G S hes explaining it like he understands it, cause he does lol. Left lane hogging is being a dick, hes trying to help irrelevant of how pointless it is to try to explain basic shit to idiots
Or follow it themselves for that matter. Many policemen consider themselves above the law. I wish we had these kinds of signs on Michigan roads. Better yet, more enforcement of it by the cops
When I was going through drivers Ed years ago it was taught that the left lane was only for passing. It was told several times. I've driven all over the country and major city areas are the worse for this. The more rural areas and highways in the middle of the country people are really good at not hogging the left lane.
Um, of course the cities are "worse". Left lanes are for turning, not overtaking. there is no passing lane in a city, only on highways and rural roads. Nobody should be (trying) overtaking on a 25-35mph road in a city.
I've noticed this as well. I find that here in Montana the left lane hogs on the interstate are most likely to have Utah or Washington plates. I think it's because these states both have huge population centers full of people who are only accustomed to driving in free-for-all commutes.
Adam Garrity i agree and disagree. Been around many different areas and i actually think the city highways are typically better, as they have more lanes and more people willing to go over the limit. However, i do think rural drivers are often more considerate as a whole. Most of the time if they see someone coming up that’s going faster, they move over. It’s the few bad apples in rural areas that are why i think it’s worse here. 2 lane highways and grandma’s going under while passing 10 18 wheelers is a big problem here. Amazing how some people are so detached from care that they would rather take their good old time than to let the 20 cars they backed up pass by
@@austindrumhe4937 semi trucks are pretty bad out here on our 2 lane freeways. at times some semi drivers will try to pass each other and just get stuck side by side as they hit the same hill and be like that for miles. Specially where we have 80mph freeways it can cause quite the backup when a semi gets stuck going 55 next to another semi. But in the end its pretty amazing how going faster saves crap all time. Most of my commute currently has 65mph road construction and going 65 vs the old 80mph changed my 28mile commute all of 3 mins. I dont let it bug me anymore when some big semi gets stuck in front of me saves me alot of stress.
the issue is, in most states drivers ed isn't mandatory, which blows my mind. no less than 50% of the people on the road shouldn't have a drivers license, and i stand by that statement
@@badasstrapbass2313 I couldnt tell you, they make it insanely easy to get a drivers license in the us. so many people genuinely have no buisness being on the roads
I think this is becoming increasingly common because of all the new technology in cars. It's becoming easier and easier to let the car do the work and people just stop paying attention. Non performance cars feel so numb now it's almost feels like a driving simulator. Also, manuals being phased out doesn't help. I would hate driving too if I just had to sit there and press a numb petal and drive through a steering wheel that feels like a video game.
At this point, the limit becomes human ability. Cars might be a lot better but the average human is still just as stupid, inattentive and slow to react.
Worst thing. Me in my car with huge brakes and high quality tires, with no phone and no drink, going over the speed limit = ticket. Versus a piece of crap with bald tires, no brake pads left, drinking coffee = legal. So stupid.
@@VestedUTuber Absolutely this. Reaction times don't improve, and there are already problems with the slowing of reaction times with age. There are also distractions in the car that didn't exist fifty years ago - particularly phones, but also iPads and DVD players. Egos don't get any smaller, either.
@@VestedUTuber I read somewhere that the response time for the average driver was 1 whole second. That is scary as shit, 1 second is a long time when going so fast.
I’ve driven like around 100mph on the highway before, and it might seem like it feels fast, but cruising at that speed, it doesn’t feel that fast. At least in Texas where I’m from and where literally everyone drives at least 5mph over the limit.
You know something? Left lane losers was the first video of yours I watched and what made me subscribe. Best decision I've ever made. Also as a firefighter, even though I ride in the back, it's always a pain seeing people going slow in the left even after they have plenty of warning when we're coming down the street (we're not hard to miss), however it's always funny to see their reaction when the officer lays on the air horn and friction siren. They get up and go FAST.
I know a retired cop and his favorite thing to do was drive behind these "left lane loser" for a few miles before pulling the over and listen to their stupid excuses.
I wonder how many people didn't even realize that they were the ones being pulled over at first simply because they thought they weren't doing anything wrong...
that sounds like my dream job LOL and vestedUtuber if they that dumb they shouldn't drive and it is literally on the written & driving test to get your license and also abit of commonsense goes a long way
"I don't know where this psycho, self-righteous attitude is coming from" Well mate, someone in the comment section of your last "left lane loosers" video has already explained: because people take everything as an attack against their ego.
Seen people come to complete stops on on ramps. Because either, the person merging is afraid to step on the gas, or people dont move over for them. Its annoying.
Right on. Everything you’re saying is absolutely correct. I texted your other video to my daughter who is on her permit. I’ve already told her all the same things but it reinforces it when she hears it from another source.
Good where I live kids can get restricted licenses at 15 and all of them swerve in and out of traffic, because even though I live in a big city it's treated like a small town so you have to barely do anything to get your license.
@@poldi2233 It's pretty bad here. I don't give the left lane hogs any break. I tailgate them and blast my Hella horns at them until they get out of the way.
@@poldi2233 I drove in Italy for the first time last year. They have gotten a bad rap. They aren't exactly Germans, but they put our motorists to shame. The Californians in our party all got tickets for cruising in the left lane.
T M I have been driving for 12 years, never wrecked a car, had I fender bender, no speeding tickets and never pulled over and given a warning. I walked into the DMV when I moved to FL to ask for study material and walked out with a driver’s license without knowing anything about the US Highway Code... I had to study 8 months in italy to get a license. So sorry but over here is much worse than Italy, people do not know what they are doing, things like merging become pissing contest and drivers take everything personally if you dare get in front of them.
LA: every lane is for passing, including both shoulders. Its a free for all, the only rule is do whatever you can get away with. Lane discipline non-existant.
Not the shoulders! Lol ... LA isn't the road back from Vegas on a Sunday afternoon. But yes, undertakes or overtakes, in LA you go around the slow distracted fool in front of you. These 'oblivious' people pay some form of attention because they often speed up just enough to prevent passing and block traffic. We should shame people who cause accidents and traffic. Blocking a lane of traffic?? "Try harder" - Yelling 'try harder' at these broken down motorists has made them cry on occasion, perhaps they will try harder with their next car.
I just moved to LA and it is infuriating. Yes, we have 5 lane freeways compared to the 2-3 lanes back in NY where I'm from, the issue is everyone likes to go whatever speed they please in any lane.
I'm from the mid Atlantic area and went to LA last year cause I never been. Omg it was so easy to drive there. They actually drive relatively similar speeds on the highway. In dc/ maryland you have Joe blow driving 5 under then you have teenie bopper driving 30 over all on the same road. No one is consistant here and the roads are so criss crossed that people are merging constantly and switching lanes. Why is it so hard for the right lane to do the speed limit and the fast lane just for 5mph over to pass
that one... that comment at 8:39 was a joke... he was joking about pulling in front of ambulances. Other than the misinterpretation of that one comment, I 100% agree with everything you've said in these vids.
Fun social experiment you can try for yourself. Set cruise control in your car to 2-4 mph faster than the current flow of traffic. Do not adjust your speed. You will catch up to the car ahead of you. Change lanes to pass car. More often than not the car will speed up when you try to pass them. Most of the time this creates a rolling road block. Often times, they will speed up to stay ahead of you, but they won't maintain that speed because they don't really want to dive that fast. Not consciously, anyway. They just don't want to be passed. As long as you keep cruise control on, you will catch them again and again, and they will look at you as you pass them like YOU are the crazy one. I do this all the time because I commute a ridiculous amount, and this happens constantly. Male drivers, female drivers, black, white, asian, it doesn't matter. People get insecure when they're being passed like it's some kind of race. It's petty and it's despicable how awful we are to each other when there's the slightest chance that someone else might get something before us.
This is why I always have to own a fast car, people will speed up so you dont pass them, and often times they cage you in so they can drive slow next to the driver in front of you. I require a minimum of 350 horsepower to deal with these people in a safe manner, fast cars can overtake safely with minimal effort.
@Andrew 1010 you're a great driver especially opening up on ramps for merging cars I always try to do that I used to have a slow pos car and on ramps were always pretty sketchy
Being someone that has just recently has gotten their license, when I was in drivers ed, I was never told that the left lane is only a passing lane. I had to ask a question one time and it was then told to me. I never knew that you couldn’t drive in the left lane until I asked a question. It needs to be taught more. People can’t drive for their lives
"Slower traffic keep right" It's in the driver's handbook in pretty-much every state. Not much room for interpretation. You're not the police, it isn't your job to enforce the speed limit. The lane you happen to be in isn't your personal property. If faster traffic moves up behind you, move over at the first safe opportunity. It aint' rocket science.
YUKI JINJUJI Even if you’re going at the speed limit, if the right lane is free and you can safely switch you should do so and stay there until you need to pass.
@@catsbyondrepair Blocking the left lane is just as illegal as speeding. At least in my state. Even if you're going 160+, if someone comes up behind you you have to move.
New driver here and honestly never learned anything about lane discipline on the highway. That video and others on the internet are helping me learn very important things about driving even though I have my license already.
8:15 that was a joke my man.... The joke is that an “a-hole driver is going very fast in an expensive car so the narrator goes in front of the car and slows down to prove a lesson to them.. only the a-hole driver is an ambulance.”
Well it is a pretty easy joke to not understand because of the lack of body language in words. @Clayton, alright, it's pretty naive to say that, I mean he has many achievements and has helped young people grow and learn.
sam grabel that’s me I’ll spot you coming up from 500 feet away and I’ll speed up and get passed the car I’m overtaking faster and then move over and let you by
sam grabel that’s me I’ll spot you coming up from 500 feet away and I’ll speed up and get passed the car I’m overtaking faster and then move over and let you by
Leroy Holmes same here. Doesn’t hurt me a bit to speed up and let someone by. People will have a line of six cars behind them and still not move. Pathetic, entitled, and apparently these people think they are officers.
Why would they when it's far easier and economical with a better rate of revenue generation to just sit on the side of the road with a radar gun while munching donuts? Catching people committing most violations other than speeding requires a bit of active participation in traffic.
I would not prefer that because their presence on the road is a good way to slow all lanes down and create the very thing you wanted to avoid. Or is this sarcasm?
Yeah here in PA we have so many people dont use there headlights etc and the cops do nothing to stop it, last time somone asked they said they had better things to do like if you dont enforce the little laws the big ones wont be respected.
@@KiRiTO72987 Slippery slope fallacy. People who are disinclined to follow a particular law will not necessarily be convinced by enforcement of others. I would bet that most people breaking the speed limit aren't also out raping and murdering people, for example.
Hit the nail on the head when you addressed the licensing, every state is different. I think interstate highways need to follow an identical set of laws. I saw Al. drivers manual and there is ZERO lane selection information for highways! ZERO lane identification.
I absolutely hate when people say they are driving the speed limit in the left lane, so it’s an excuse to never move back over, all while they’re actually breaking the law by not moving back over and are welcoming a potential accident by someone hitting them from behind - these people are petty
GeoMac Granddad they just need to be held responsible they were the ones responsible for learning it’s not the governments job to teach you to drive the laws are on paper the resources are there there is no excuse for going out and driving without understanding the basic rules
Here in Indiana police have been really focusing on ticketing drivers for staying in the left lane and not passing. Also indiana has signs everywhere that say keep right except to pass.
I drive over 2000 miles a week in Indiana and I've never once seen this enforcedu.s. 31 a lot all the way from the bottom of the state to the Michigan line _ I cover the entire toll road east to west i-69 North and South travel a lot on 70 never seen this being enforced fact the only thing I see being enforced he traps Which are simple money grabs - important several drunk drivers every week - frustrated by drivers who will not get out of the left lane going too slow - find manage to get around them they will tailgate all the way up to about 90 miles per hour - tailgaters are dangerous to I shouldn't have to worry about you running over me if I happen to run into a deer I should only have to worry about a deer in rain the road in front of me which happens a couple of times a week - last January I had two people following me so closely when the road iced over when I tap my break just enough make the brake light come on. Slow down that they spot off the road because they were startled so badly
Phuqem I have seen some people pulled over for left lane driving on highways I don’t drive the interstate much. I live about smack dab in between Terre Haute and Bloomington and I understand your frustration people tailgating is an entire issue in of itself especially in icy conditions. What it all boils down to is common sense and there is a major lack of it today and this is coming from a “millennial”.
You are truly awesome. Some people settle for someone having a lot of cool cars as being cool, but the fact that you're educated and disciplined is just amazing. I look up to you, bro.
Let me know when they hit the hammer. It has been my experience that they move over. Then slowly crawl by the other semi taking 19 miles to pass. barely exceeding the speed of the semi in the right lane. Iv'e seen it more than a thousand times in my 40 years of driving. Truckers call it the f'n with the non paid drivers lane. They are by far the worst drivers on the road.
@@bmel7718 I think some trucks have speed limiters which a lot of the time barely allow them to go faster than whoever is in the right lane. Doesn't justify them passing like that but it's why it happens like that sometimes
b mel That’s because truck drivers are trying to get somewhere & then those Sunday drivers block up both right lanes ... so the truck gets in the hammer lane to get past said Sunday driver however once that slow driver see’s a truck trying to pass them their ego takes over & they all of a sudden remember where the gas pedal is & instead of speeding up & going on about their business they speed up just a little bit to stay barely in front of the truck or most dangerously ride right along side the truck..... if more people were like Casey then I don’t think that wouldn’t happen so often.
@@bmel7718 happened once when we were driving up a mountain in Tennessee coming back from florida.. because up a fucking GRADE is when a semi should pass another semi.
That's what I do in Omaha, use the passing lane, do 80/90 for 1 minute, then merge over to the middle lane. Just to get to the larger gaps with less vehicles around, to not be so crowded.
Got the same issue in Australia but obviously the right hand instead. I'm on my green P's in Victoria which means I've done 120 hours driving with a supervisor (parents) and now 1 year on my own. Whenever i get on the freeway i run into an issue where i'm in the right lane passing a slow vehicle in the left. They'll pull out into the right lane themselves to pass a slow vehicle in the left instead of waiting for me to pass them and then overtaking the slow vehicle that was in front of them, this creates bumper to bumper traffic at 110km'h involving myself who's only got about 300 hours driving experience. Another common thing is tailgating on freeways at those speeds mentioned before which leaves no time for reacting or breaking!
@@buellterrier3596 Definitely, you've got some who waited till 21 with no learning and just passed the test here to get their licence. Others who are older and got their licence when it was a matter of seeing your local police station and international drivers as well. So a big % of drivers here don't have the standardised training and knowledge you need to be a fully capable driver. lucky for us you get picked up and fined really quick for hogging the right lane, the police take it serious but i still notice the issue. Speeding and tailgating are bigger problems on the freeway since i notice it more.
Erotikstudio Winkler GmbH it’s different in every state in Australia. In Victoria where I live you need to get your learners permit which is a test you do at their office with 32 questions about road laws, you can read a handbook that has all the state laws. Once you pass that you have to drive on your learners which you can get at 16 and log 120 hours with a supervising driver which is basically someone who has a full divers licence. For example a partner or guardian. Once you turn 18 and have 120 hours logged you need to sit two test. One is a computer test which has videos play of hazards and you click when you would react to the hazard and the other test is a 45 min drive test with an instructor to see you’re capable of driving. Once you complete the test you go on red P’s for a year and green p’s for 3 years which basically means you can drive on your own but with restrictions like no mobile phone use even for gps or banned sports cars. After you finish your P’s you get your full licence
@@keenanmcritchie109 Mate, that's way better then it was in Victoria in the 80's. Four lessons then the test, and you could drive any power to weight car under 4tonnes. And some roads still had deristriction signs, so no limit, just a dangerous driving fine if you did anything stupid (such as Melton to Melbourne via the Calder in under 20 min...). They brought in the coloured plates just after I got my licensed, and the training has gotten better. We learnt more driving paddock bombs then we did on the street. There is a way to get people to move over on most roads, just not the Westgate or Monash, drive something so daggy they're afraid you'll just use it to push them out of the right lane 🤣
@@buellterrier3596 i agree by learning from your parents you will end up picking up their bad habits. (not saying your parents are bad drivers of coarse.) but learning from a proper driving school is a lot better as they know the way the system works and you become a better driver as well.
German drivers on average are far worse at driving than Americans. The British have far better accident records as do the Swiss with lower speeds on public highways. All of these countries, and especially the whole of Scandinavia are light rail countries as well. Germany IS a auto nation to a large degree, but their accident rate in townships is WAY worse than any American statistic.
@@thiosemicarbizidebenzoylal2921 I imagine german streets are way tighter than in the US. When I went to japan I was scared by how everyone drove on such tiny streets.
@@thiosemicarbizidebenzoylal2921 Care to provide me a legitimate source for your statistic? Because I can't find a single source anywhere that shows either fatalities or even individual incidents are worse in Germany than the U.S. The number of individual incidents has risen in recent years, but the U.S. definitely takes the cake in terms of a public health problem. I don't think your assertion is true.
I’m not trying to have fun by going fast I’m just trying to make it home in a reasonable time and not have a stroke cause people are blocking the passing lane
In all actuality it wasn't made to have fun on whatsoever. It was made to move the military initially. The us highway system was made for transporting goods and leisure The interstate system Not so much But people have a tendency these days wish to forget the past
@@mwhitelaw8569 i heard the reason for the yellow and white lines is because if the military needs to land airplanes on the highway, the markers on the highway would become runway markers.
I`m thankful to you for talking about this, I was an international truck driver in Europe before coming to the US, I always drive on the right lane and have been frustrated about this topic for many years. Good job, though I think most of those guys will never change the bad habits. Mauro from Italy
Why not just stay in the fucking right lane in the first place? Only switch to the left if you are passing. Switch back right away when you are done, and you’re not going to get passed on the right. Rule: unless you intend on passing someone, stay in the right lane at all times.
MrBonso exactly. That’s what I do. If someone wants to break the speed limit or pass all the time let them do it. Just drive in the right. I have a quick car but I drive in the right almost all the time. Use the left only for passing when someone can’t even go the speed limit lol
@@2222thebeast Why not? Because fucking idiots follow along in that right lane like a bunch of leaf cutter ants, such that it puts people to sleep. I rarely go the speed limit because it is more dangerous being around half asleep morons, thus I move past them. Have you ever noticed how cars group together on the freeway blocking traffic because some slow old person is afraid of driving. In southern California just about everyone goes 75 and then there are cars passing you at 80, that is unless you live in LA then everyone goes 35 on the freeway. I like the stimulation of speed. It keeps my mind alert, and yes I am a good driver with no accidents and I have been driving for 57 years. AND YOU ?
I remember seeing somewhere a guy in a 300zx with a sicker on the back of his car, a big one I might add, If i just passed you, you're in the wrong lane!
We need those signs in Iowa. The problem is getting worse every day. Not sure why our state doesn't invest in signs like that. It's the most concise way to say it.
cdorhoutable oh yea Iowa can be horrible. Two lane roads for miles stuck behind someone going 10 under is infuriating. And as for passing it becomes difficult due to limited vision because of all the hills.
I currently in the police academy. My brother has been a CHP for 5 years now and he loves giving tickets to people going 10 under the speed limit on the left lane. He hates these idiots as well so thankfully he’s getting them for us. He tells me he gets around 30-50 tickets a month on these people alone lol
I one time had to cut in front of a vehicle hogging the left lane with 3, 18-wheelers trying to pass. You gotta be a BAD driver to congest I 10. I'm in a Mazda 3, so a small car. Wedged in front of this slow ass driver and didn't tap my brakes but gradually slowed down forcing this driver to go even slower. Once there was enough space, I flashed my lights to the first truck signaling that driver to pass in front of me. Driver passed me and as such proper road etiquette flashed back. That was my "thank you" for giving the driver a chance to pass. Let all three pass than sped up and all three diesels had moved back into the right lane as all they needed to do was pass. Only one speeding was me.
Yeah, and Louisiana is probably the WORST section of I-10 you can drive. I'm originally from there and people in Denver have better lane discipline than the people in my home state. Alabama and Georgia are pretty awful too.
If I'm hauling ass in the fast lane, and someone comes up behind me hauling a little more ass, I am already speeding up to move over before they even have to tap their brakes or let off the accelerator. I don't know why this is so hard for lane hogs to grasp.
In most states, (including here in Ohio for us) its a state law to keep right unless passing, and slower vehicles are supposed to stay right, i just dont get how that is so hard for some people to understand. The only time this would not apply would be if it was otherwise directed for construction
In Australia, they have signs that say "keep left unless overtaking." "Passing" means passing in the opposite direction there. The bad news is, they are also terrible at keeping out of the overtaking lane anywhere near a city.
I've been to a number of cities in California where the overtaking lane is designated the cruising lane in cities to allow traffic to merge in and out effectively. Too much through traffic in the right lane causes major traffic jams all the time. Its so bad they've actually installed traffic lights on the on ramps to the freeway. Nobody allows people to pass on the open highways, nobody allows people to merge in cities.
Also "On multi-lane roads, if the posted speed limit is 90km/h or more, or if the road has a ‘keep left unless overtaking’ sign, you must not drive in the right-hand lane unless you are: overtaking turning right making a U-turn avoiding an obstruction driving in congested traffic using a special purpose lane that you are allowed to be in. Drivers are allowed to overtake on the left on all multi-lane roads." www.qld.gov.au/transport/safety/rules/road/left
Thanks for the reminder Casey. While I have always been aware that the left lane is for passing, your video has made me put more of a conscious effort into practicing lane discipline. My commutes in the daily, and fun trips in the "sports car" have been more enjoyable because of it.
I hope you can also cover the zipper merge, as I've had easily seen many potential accidents where people are just ill-informed about how merging is supposed to work. Many people seem to just cut people off to prevent them from merging at the merge point.
Yes! I was behind someone on the interstate last Sunday while she was on her cellphone in her Suburban. Swerving over the white line clear over the rumble strip, back on and swerving into the passing lane and back over at 60mph. I was too dang scared to have to drive next to her to make a pass.
Yesterday my dad was wanting me to tell him where to get lunch. Well we get close to an exit that has some places to choose. I'm like let's go there. He thinks about it and was like you got to tell me quicker. Next time I give him more time but this time he has to floor it to pass the car on the right. When we stop he's says:"you have to tell me what exit before it comes up because I'm driving 75." Me: "well if you weren't driving in the left lane the while time maybe we could have made the first exit." Him: "I'm not a semi or someone that needs to use the slow lane." Me: "it's the law." Him: "who cares." Me: "..." Literally drove like 400+ miles in the left lane unless we had to get over to let someone pass or merge because of construction.
Here in Canada and particularly my province there is signs that read....."keep right except to pass" also here in Canada lots of people are not able to read too unfortunately lol
What drives me crazy is the people who can't read that a lane is ending in 1/2 mile etc. They either think that the sign is a lie or they can't read. This causes more traffic backup then it should. If people moved over way ahead of time there would be no jostling at the last moment for space.
@@kolavadae4592 feel you on that one, the QEW is another, droves of rolling pharmacies down here in Niagara hogging up that left lane , love it when they get their dream monte carlo ss V8, and never exceed 90kmh with the damn thing.. like we are supposed to show them respect for owning the thing or something ..if his windows are open, i usually go down to 2nd with the duc.. at 90 the noise level is ..illegal .. and i just sit there at 7grand..he cant go slower or escape.. mad fun on the 406
I think the "ambulance" comment was a joke about pulling in front of an ambulance and slowing down.. Could be wrong though. Here's to hoping more people learn how to use the left lane
I am a new driver and have had my license for less than a year, this issue is definitely a result of poor drivers education. To get my permit I took a test that I did not study for and passed on my first try (No mention of the left lane being a passing lane on the test) followed by a behind the wheel driving test that consisted of driving around the block and changing lanes to turn once, the whole test took maybe 10 minutes and there was never any mention of the highway whatsoever. In hindsight I should not have gotten my license that easily and should have been properly educated, Thanks to your videos I am now cured of the left lane lunacy
I recently was in Europe 30 years after my last visit there and quickly remembered how much I missed driving on the continent. It was so refreshing to drive where people had lane discipline, used their mirrors, and knew how to drive. In some countries to get a license you have to demonstrate skid control and recovery in multiple weather conditions and can take up to a year before you get the license. In America you have to know how to parallel park. And most drivers only use their mirrors in the morning while shaving or putting make-up on. If I sound a little frustrated, I am. It really doesn’t have to be this hard to get from point A to point B, just use some common sense, courtesy and for the love of god use your mirrors.
TheCannonball79 Agreed. No I don’t live in Europe, but the things I see people doing in their mirrors on US highways at 70mph is absurd. On top of them not being able to drive in the first place, now they’re equipping their cars with back up sensors, lane departure sensors, sensors for this, that, and the other. So now they’re fully relying on this equipment and see no reason to use the mirrors like anyone with common sense would. The number of people I’ve had to cut me off on the highway is ridiculous, they’re just looking straight ahead with absolutely no idea that they nearly sent both of us into a full blown spin out on the highway. Had someone who backed into my car last year by doing that..and it was straight behind theirs by at least 8-10 yards!
I'm so glad I found your channel. You are voicing all of my frustration while driving. It's so good to hear someone speak out about our countries driving problems. Love that you actually provide solutions to the problems as well
Everyone anymore seems to have pretty thin skin TBH. Critisism, even when constructive, looks to be one of the most frowned upon actions one can take currently. Don't want to offend anyone or anyones actions or else they might have to use introspection, and we cant have that lol
Yeh One time I was behind this pickup truck, driving behind him on the left lane, the right lane was wide open, I was trying to be patient, waiting for him to move over to the right, but he ended up not doing so, so I had to pass him on the right, and then he decides to speed up 🤦♂️🙄
If you were to ask any of my friends or family they would tell you that I'm one of the most calmest and chill guy they know. But these left lane hogs really piss me off and cause me to have road rage! It doesn't matter if you're going MACH 1 or 2 in the left lane, if someone comes up behind you, YOU MOVE OVER! It's the law! Plain & simple! The worst is when you try over taking them from the right lane and they speed up so that you can't get ahead of them. SMH. I don't understand why police departments haven't taken advantage of this great revenue stream potential yet. I bet if we eliminate these left lane hogs, we would improve traffic flow by at least 30%.
Don't let it bug you enough to affect your mental health and cause stress. At this point its pretty much just gonna happen. So I just deal with it and dont worry about the minor amout of time i lost because I got stuck behind someone. It used to really bug me but after not letting it make me so mad it has made driving more peaceful. I still dont like it but it doesn't cause rage anymore
@@Demon09-_- I agree with you. Nowadays I try to stay in a cruising mood and the far right lane and not let it bother me. Also try doing most of my travels outside of rush hour.
Police departments should have some unmarked cars to just drive around in traffic without being identified so they can start ticketing these people. I'm so sick of lazy ass cops sitting in speed traps hoping to catch the one person who didn't immediately slam on the brakes as soon as they saw the cop car camped out.
"Better Training" I remember when I first got my license. My driving part of the test was a route that was all right turns with one left turn. Because of the left turn there was only one lane change. A few stop lights and only one stop sign. Nothing else. No parallel parking. Never exceeded 35mph. I look back and think I should have never been given a license. I was not properly trained at 16 and became a better driving through experience. Not everyone develops without the training.
I was in a similar situation, when I started my test the instructor legit told me "Don't worry honey I failed my test 3 times, I will take care of you" Had me go around the block and back to the parking lot, only went through maybe 2 stop lights and some stop signs in a residential neighborhood
@@bigjohn7583 Yep, i got my liscense at 17, passed. No highway, only went through a neighborhood and back. had to learn the highway myself. last year aswell
8:16 I think this guy was just being silly. When he said "Saw this dude" I don't think he meant you, just... some guy. Saying he got in front of him to slow him down since he was going fast. Punchline at the end, it was an ambulance! Edit: I'm noticing now lots of people have commented this. Sorry for adding another one!
The one gets me the most no turn signal how the hell am I supposed to know your about to turn or change lanes right into my path. Plus what with everyone driving around with no brake lights or headlights. One car I saw only had one headlight working a truck didn’t have any brake lights. I didn’t even know he/she was stopping.
On a road with no intersections speed limits really just don't make sense. If we removed speed limits on freeways and went full Autobahn, then people would learn really fast to stay right unless they are passing. And I'd bet that traffic would disappear for the most part unless there's a wreak on the freeway, but with less heavy traffic (because you can actually pass people) we'd probably see less traffic accidents, and definitely fewer multiple car pileups. Funny thing, when traffic gets crazy slow I wonder, there's no accident, no bad weather, what's the hold up? Then I pass a cop using a radar gun and as soon as I pass him then traffic speed picks back up again. Nobody wants to get a speeding ticket, so it's funny that a cop sitting there can actually make traffic way worse. Most accidents on the freeway are due to lane changes, and when faster cars try passing slower cars they'll change lanes more, it's that changing lanes that causes problems. But what if the left lane were generally open? Then people are not likely to safely change lanes for passing maneuvers only, and then change lanes again once they've safely passed. So yeah, I totally agree, speeding isn't as big of a danger as constant lane changes.
I also wanted to add the most dangerous highway moments I've had are when I'm trying to pass slow traffic through the center of the highway due to left lane blocking and I have merge traffic interfering and having to pass between cars on either side of me over multiple lanes
Gotta love how everyone thinks they are doing more good by impeding traffic. They are actually making things more dangerous for everyone, yet they sit there with a percieved moral superiority.
These asshats are never going away.
Reminds me of liberalism
Should make it illegal to have someone pass you on the right (not illegal to pass right, read it again). Makes it easier for officers to enforce and people will start to regulate theirselves or get tickets.
Yeh and then they brake check to make things more dangerous 🙄
@@ShawnDickens no. Not one more thing for cops to ticket over and even more of a nanny police state
Let me tell a story about how a left lane hog ruined my life:
I got a call late one evening from my GF’s best friend. She told me that my GF was in the hospital about to miss-carry our baby. I looked at my clock and saw that I had exactly 30 minutes to make the last ferry boat of the night to make the 2 hour drive (and ferry ride) to see her in the hospital. I grabbed a toothbrush and a change of clothes and ran out the door!
As soon as I entered the freeway I could see two cars driving side-by-side in the two lanes of the highway ahead of me. They were both going 5 miles/hr under the speed limit and they were literally the only cars I could see on the highway.
They both refused to do anything to allow me to pass for several exits. Eventually I was able to get around them, but apparently the lady who was blocking the left lane didn’t think I should be allowed to pass her, so she called the cops.
I got pulled over, did not get a ticket, but as you can guess, I did not make that ferry because of the delay. I drove all the way there to see the ferry pulling away.
I then had to turn around and drive another 4 hours to get to the hospital and by then, she had already miscarried and was home crying. I wasn’t able to even drive my GF home from the hospital after we lost our baby because some woman felt entitled to block traffic in the left lane.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it entitled Lane hogs. Your actions destroy the lives of fellow Americans and you don’t even care!!!
Jesus that was painful to read, sorry for your loss
DJ-TRAXX ouch sorry
Damn... thats rough, my sister miscarried. It sucks, hope you're doing better now.
Hopefully karma catches up to her
Or did she save your GF from losing two of the most precious things in her life? Just food for thought. Sorry for your loss, sincerely. My wife and I lost our first to miscarriage as well. I was bitter for a while but now have two amazing daughters after choosing to live overseas for a while after the miscarry. I like to think all the amazing things we experienced were inspired by our loss.
My wife and I are both firefighters and EMT's, I can honestly say people in the left do increase our response times. We've had to pass people in the right lane cause they won't get over even for an emergency vehicle running lights and siren.
@@markf5314 Oklahoma, we have that too. We also had a law go into effect last November making it illegal to drive in the left lane lol. People completely disregard all the signs on the highways they put up too "Do Not Impede Left Lane".
@@GixxerFoo
Wow. A lot of people are dumb and some need to be flogged for rude and inconsiderate behavior. That Schitt can cost lives.
@@elgringoec It's pretty bad, especially on two lane highways when they won't pull over on either side to let us by.
Just fucking run them over. Natural selection.
I wonder how this affects mortality rates? I often have noticed, in Portland Oregon in particular, there's a big crowd of subaru outback drivers that seem to take joy in purposefully slowing others down. I often wonder what medications they are on, and also: they tend to drive with the window shade down 24/7. I often wonder if they have depression issues or simply lack control over their lives, so they want to "take control" over other peoples lives. The ones with the bumper stickers are the worst offenders. Then upon passing them, they tend to do something passive aggressive: horn honks, speeding up, trying to keep up with you in the corners (hahaha, subarus understeer SO BAD when stock, so it's hilarious when they attempt this), flashing high beams, etc.
Prius drivers used to be the worst, but they've been eclipsed by the outback / subaru drivers atleast in the PNW. The Subaru is the "I'm not sure what to buy, I'm risk adverse, I want to "Fit in" (instead of just buying winter tires), type of individuals.
“Slower traffic stay right”. It is a law in most states. It is rather self explanatory. Left lane hogs are infuriating, especially when dealing with emergency vehicles.
From Mississippi, can confirm; it's a law here.
It's hard to enforce those laws. With short staffed and underfunded police, plus public ignorance and paranoia, they go for the easy mark, speeding. I postulate that running red lights, left lane losers, and tailgating are all more dangerous than someone going 10 over. But since enforcement of these thing requires an actual PATROL, instead of just parking and flipping on a radar gun, it doesn't happen.
flugplatz21 UNDERFUNDED 😂😂..wow
All vehicles are supposed to pull over and stop for emergency vehicles, no?
@@PaintedCavern On surface streets, yes. On the highways, you only move to the right without stopping. Unless of course traffic has stopped. But, when you approach an emergency vehicle that is stopped on the shoulder of the highway, such as a cop that has pulled someone over, or a tow truck, you must move to the left and give them a one full lane buffer. At least thats how it is in Michigan.
why does everyone drive with a "chip on their shoulder"??? If someone is going faster than you in the left lane, just get the hell over!!
Because you shouldn't get to where you are going before them lol. That's gotta be it.
Driving is a competitive sport. To not be ahead means you're a loser.
Barry Walker by road design (in non congested or rural four lanes), there shouldn't be people going faster than you if you're in the left lane. You, travelling in the right lane see a slow moving vehicle, say truck struggling up a hill at 60 in a 70,
1) check mirrors and head check while signalling
2) move deliberately accelerating into the left lane
3) accelerate to a comfortable overtake speed
4) pass the truck and return to the right lane now going about 70ish +/- 5mph
Here's where the anger starts.
1) There's a hotrodder far behind you wanting to go 85 but you are in the midst of your safe pass when he catches up, starts twitching, cussing, flashing and had to (horrors) cancel his cruise control. He can just damned well wait for you to complete your pass at the passing speed you have selected, and then he will pass you as you return right at a safe interval in front of the truck.
Or
2) you're passing the truck and see several other vehicles a half mile or more ahead and decide you may as well just stay in the left lane...which causes the hotrodders to rightly get impatient and have to pass you on the right, cutting off the truck and almost clipping your bumper.
You guys know that sooner or later you have been #1 or #2. Avoid that.
The hotrodder is a bully trying to act like an ambulance and force others off the road, be it a track fantasy bike, a Tesla, a BMer, a ricer, a Charger/Mustang/Camaro or an Ecsalade. You still must wait your turn, despite the belief you are a Road God.
#2 is the Prius SJW who is trying to select the appropriate speed for the entire highway.
Oh in a traffic jam, just fill all the lanes to stack the traffic symmetrically (emergency vehicles use the shoulder) and keep moving with as safe an interval as possible. Until the jam clears or you reach the obstruction, stay in whatever lane you were stacked into.
Numerous stupid lane changes in a jam only makes the jam take longer, and we all know it.
It really is this easy, yet everyone wants to be in control. Left lane hoggs are rude control freaks.
Oregon Motorcycle whether they're driving 50 or 90...they are still left lane hogs. Be it hot sport bike, Tesla S, Lambo, Charger, Prius, Mommy van, Stang or Nissan Sentra.
Use the left lane and then clear it for the next person to use it.
I wish cops would give more tickets for this instead of focusing on people, often safely, going 10mph over the limit
Once I was doing about 85 in a 65, and a cop came up behind me flashing his lights. I got the hell out of his way and he took off. It's a part of the freeway everybody speeds on, and the cop understood this. To follow the speed limit would have meant clogging up traffic for miles back.
In Illinois the state troopers have actually started cracking down on this and putting up social media posts informing people about the illegality of it. So despite Illinois sucking at pretty much everything, at least the state police are enforcing this law lol
Hell a lot of us with modified or simple high performance cars like lambos and stuff can go 20, 30, even 40 over perfectly safely in some situations, like when you're in the dead of day with 3 miles of open highway in front of you.
@@Prestiged_peck the limits are set with the lowest performing vehicles and most incompetent drivers in mind. It is aggravating that because some rusted old f150 can only drive a certain stretch of road at a certain speed I have to drive my amg within those same limits
@@vincentsolito8234 ikr, hell I know a guy who has a model T with a 5 speed and modern tires and he can drive it like 75 safely
In the mountains here we have 2 type of drivers:
Drivers that mind their own business (drivers that either pass you driving consistently at a steady pace, or allow you to pass them with no hassles in passing zones if going slow themselves),
And the types of drivers that like to drive 5-10 mph under the speed limit everywhere and then speed up to about 15mph over the speed limit in the few and far-between passing zones as they don't want you to pass them because its all about them, and you must abide by their set pace. These people deserve jail.
Hell, in Utah everyone goes 15 miles over the speedlimit and where do people go the slowest? The left lane.
Fuck this hit on a spiritual level. My S2000 is so slow in those passing lane situations :( needs boost
If u live in the mountains I believe they deserve to be pushed over the edge physically as they are trying to push u over the edge mentally
@@ThatWasPrettyFunny I know. You read the cars body language all while giving off non threatening body language of you own. Then pick your spot like a jockey in the Kentucky Derby and charge. It's dangerous to follow these people.
Most dumbest drivers are in southern bc they will drive 70 or 80 km an hr through the twist and turns just to be an ass when the speed limit is 100km an hr. Then when a rare passing lane appears the guy who is going slow will floor it making sure no one can pass him. Then when he gets back in the twists and turns he go's back to 70 or 80 km an hr. It makes for a dangerous situation because he make a big convoy and every one starts to get frustrated and pass on dangerous areas almost creating accidents.
Jezza Clarkson summed this up in one sentence; "If there's room for me to undertake you, there was room for you to get out of the way in the first place"
Is undertaking the same thing as passing on the right?
@@christopherpape4823 yep; as in the UK we drive on the left, passing on the left is the dangerous way. In short, its passing a driver on their blind side. Its quite illegal in the UK and we are trained rigorously not to do it. So passing lane hogs can hold up an entire freeway. Having lived in California for years, I now just undertake them if theres room.
@@throwback19841 haha yeah I do it all the time too tbh. Never heard of anyone getting pulled over for it here in Pennsylvania.
@@throwback19841 Passing on the left is not technically illegal in the UK, but it can be considered to be driving dangerously which very much is so it's quite a grey area in terms of the law.
@@SerenaBluee Hmmm... that's very interesting to me, I know for sure in Spain it is illegal to pass on the right on the highway, and police do enforce this heavly, and you will most definetly get pulled over if you drive on the passing lane just for the sakes of it.
I had someone yell, ”F*** you” because I flashed him a couple times when he was going 15 below in the far left lane, with cars to the right going faster than him. Also lane discipline need to be taught in driver’s ed classes. My driver’s ed teacher never once mentioned lane discipline.
Lol, drivers ed? I never had that. I just took a test and drove around a city black and got my license for it.
Who even had money for drivers ed.
Maybe they should just incorporate it into general education?
Drivers ed sometimes lowers your insurance.
Mine did but he also mention that nearly nobody followed this rule and sometimes it’s best to go with the flow for the safety of everyone driving.
Some people really do believe that they should be in charge of the flow of traffic, they will linger in the left lane at the speed limit, they will watch as many cars pass others to the right of them, and they refuse to get out of the left lane. Making the roadways unsafe with multiple motorists, merging multiple lanes, to go around them, when they could simply get out of the left lane and allow people to flow ahead of them.
I liked your comment just because of your username
They forget that even larger vehicles can lane split.
@@mikeb5352 Yep, pull to right (barely enough to pass, just a few inches off their passenger door), Cut them off, shunt them(lay on brakes), tell them they're number 1 (with the middle finger).
@@snap-off5383 Please don't. You're just taking a dangerous situation they created and making it even more dangerous.
I've honestly not thought about these rules as aiding the "flow of traffic". It makes sense to me, now that it's been said, that causing multiple lane changes can cause more problems.
I've noticed it's a regional thing. I lived out west and down south for a few years and people had no idea how the left lane works. Then I moved back to Michigan and people were literally running me off the road for not driving 85 plus in the passing lane. It was a nice welcome home to get flipped off by my fellow Michiganders. .
Tim I, I hope you realize that when you come “down south”, the poor driving habits are typically not those of the locals but from those that have moved here... primarily from the northeast. In Florida, we didn’t go from 5 million to 20 million+ residents, in
John H I agree. Most locals in my area know how to drive. It’s the people migrating from California that drive irresponsibly. I’ve never ridden with a friend that chills in the fast lane with traffic behind him or her.
@@jonathankeith524 California freeways designate the left lane as the diamond lane in major cities. This kind of complicates the matter
For sure. I live in CT on the CT/MA line. MA enforces left lane discipline more (still not enough, but whatever) so when in MA it's not as bad, but as soon as you cross the line into CT, you can be sure there will be someone blocking the left lane.
Thanks for not getting out of the way!
Sad part is, people who need to see this (aka poor lane discipline folks) never will
Aka most people
@@SALEENS7GTR5 What percentage do you reckon?
@@dividedstatesofamerica2520 90%? Think about how many people drive cars everyday just to use them to get to work or the store. Hundreds of millions of cars exist and are being driven in the US. The ratio of bad/uneducated drivers to people seeing this video is probably a massive discrepancy.
Yeah the only people who found this via searching were people who already know it's a problem.
@@dividedstatesofamerica2520 90% Why you ask? bc boomers are sleeping.
Hope you enjoy hearing about the popular opinion and thoughts on Left Lane Hogs.
Literally just yesterday watched a severe rear end accident due to lane splitting on motorcycles, and IMPROPER USAGE OF LANES. We should talk about motorcycle etiquette a bit Casey!
Hey just thought I'd let you know, you got a little something on your nose there.
I did. FYI Casey, your beeps for bleep-out are way too loud! Check your audio output before rendering, amigo. 🤐 Again, you're right-on about the topic and the validity of the responses. You're well spoken, logical, and level-headed. And as you so astutely pointed out, this issue need readdressing in driver's education (we were taught proper lane discipline fifty years ago, but twenty years ago I had to teach my kids about it because it wasn't covered). I think the reason that vid went "viral" is because RUclips started popping it up as a suggested video on our home screens (maybe people who'd shown interest in cars). I'd never heard of you before that. Cheers! 🍻
Casey Putsch And even if they are somehow helping (which their not), it just results in people getting pissed off and often making rash/dangerous maneuvers to get around them.
The thumbs-down are from Prius-driving soy-boys.
In sweden, hogging the left lane is illegal and comes with hefty fines. Impeeding trafik in one of the things trafiklaws are based on.
Deadly Pugger it’s illegal in many places in America too, there are signs everywhere. Just that no cops pull people over for it
@@JeepCherokeeful same here in Canada.
It's illegal here in the US, but cops here rarely pull anyone except for speeding
@Michael Cabada different countries spell words differently
@Michael Cabada Different countries spell differently lol
For example: not everyone uses the imperial system, other use metric
When you see someone driving slow (left lane or not) with a line of cars behind them, they look in the mirror and say "good thing I left when I did, if I left a minute later I would have been stuck behind all this traffic." It never occurs to them that they are causing that line of traffic, and it doesn't matter when they left, they would be causing a line of traffic behind them....
When I first heard that, it was a huge "ah ha" moment to all the oblivious drivers out there.
Wait people don't actually realize that?
That's just the thing, they don't look in the mirror, all they see is that long open road in front of them.....oh,and of course their phone that they are texting on while driving.
It's the snake affect. One person hits the brakes in a line of traffic, everyone hits the brakes and causes traffic to slow down
Yea, and if anyone ever sees a semi in the left lane passing someone then everyone freaks on them and says "why is the semi in the left lane"
Well, what are they supposed to do? Speed up and get pulled over?
In my opinion most car pile ups are caused by left lane hogging + distracted driving.
Just remember any idiot can drive , Trouble is MOST OF THEM DO 👍😂
And they are allowed to multiply and they do.
I know there's a lot of villages missing it's idiots there all on the highway 😏😏😏
David Watt yeah have you seen that Canada’s worst driver show it’s similar in America where it seems even awful drivers who can’t even read and understand traffic signs get their license
I'm lucky I rarely come across left lane hogs in Michigan and if I do, it seems to be 1) a student driver that's scared to death 2) someone elderly 3) someone handicapped
Agree. As I always say not everyone is good at everything yet everyone thinks they’re good at driving. The numbers just don’t add up.
Several years ago I was rushing my daughter to the hospital in a life and death situation. It was so difficult trying to navigate through people in the left lanes that just won’t move. I was crying and panicking and this just made everything worse. You have no idea what the person behind you is speeding for, they could be rushing a loved one to the hospital, trying to get some place to say good bye to a loved one, maybe as to not miss a birth of their child and yes they could just be hauling ass because they love to speed. I don’t care the reason if someone behind me is going faster I’ll pull over.
@@ThatWasPrettyFunny ANYTHING you do can piss off the wrong person, how many times have you accidentally cut someone off or THEY feel you cut them off? Or merged too late or anything of the sort. A man was killed recently, shot at a stop light when he just looked at the driver next to him. Yes the person behind you speeding might be in an emergency but if in their haste, they get in a car accident and or kill someone else, how is THAT going to help them? If the emergency excuse works, so does me speeding if I'm late for work. And yet, I always hear in my head the words of officers I've been with and my late grandfather, if I'm rushing to get somewhere and I get into an accident, I'll never make it there. It's not worth speeding. I've seen so many car accidents where people were speeding and the end results. No thank you.
I definitely get frustrated when two semis are hogging both the left and right lanes, for some reason one semi thinks they are faster than the other but they aren't lol. I don't rage over it though, you're an emotional driver if you are and EMOTIONAL drivers are dangerous, it's not everyone else's responsibility to drive on eggshells to not set you off so you don't cause a wreck by swerving in and out of traffic.
People in personal vehicles without emergency lights shouldn't be rushing anyone anywhere, that's why ambulances exist.
Ryan M yea, get an ambulance.
Shatto you say “If there are speeding and they get in a accident and kill Someone else how is that helping them” but that would NOT be a issue if people just stuck to the flow of traffic if you can’t keep up with everyone behind you then you need to move simple as that, if you are in the left lane there is no reason what’s so ever should you be going the same speed as the people in all the other right lanes people have the illusion that they need to follow the speed limit on a freeway, the “speed limit” on a free way is whatever the flow of traffic is, a cop isn’t going to pull you over for keeping a constant pace of 85mph in the left lane like everyone else is doing
@@eagle25311 and pay $10,000 for the ambulance ride if you don't have insurance
I thought “left lane losers” was referring to British people
LOL!
to be honest add anything to the word loser and it refers to British people
Ah yes, the original giant trash island out in the ocean.
Hahaha
"Would ya like a spot o' tea while we're in the left lane, Count Cunningfuck?"
When I first got my license, I was stationed in California. I was practicing on the highway and people were blowing passed me even though I was going the speed limit. I was thinking " These jackasses are gonna get pulled over real quick and I'm gonna go passed them laughing." And then I was immediately pulled over for impeding traffic. The cop literally told me "Go with the flow of traffic. if everyone is going 100, you go 100 otherwise you're a road hazard" or something to that effect. A real eye opener.
That is my experience in San Diego County re: flow of traffic. Been passed by CHP bike cruising at probably 100 while I and all of lanes 1, 2, and 3 (my lane, out of 5 lanes) were going 90-95 mph average on Interstate 15. Down here at least CHP would rather let traffic flow than quibble with everybody doing 25-30 over.
@@invictusdomini8624 Nice. I’ll take note if I ever go to California in a passenger vehicle.
But then they’ll pull you over if they want if you’re going 10 over.
In the bay are even more so. People will never allow you to sit in the left lane out here, they will aggressively try to pass you. Often the left lane can be 90-100 mph during low traffic periods.
@@beck204 you won’t get pulled over unless you’re the leader or last car of the group of speeders… or something about you or your car stands out. If you’re sandwiched by cars that are going over the limit, cops will let you be. They’ll understand that you’re going with the flow to avoid being the problem. Peace
it is ego-centric driving...when I flash my high beams to pass IN THE PASSING LANE people slam on their brakes and wont get over. Its like they think the left lane is their "personal comfort lane"
Right
I had one guy flip me off...but then he moved over. On the flip side, I was in the right lane at 1 am a few days ago, 4 empty lanes of freeway to my left, and somebody came up behind me and flashed to pass. You can probably imagine the colorful language I used to describe him or her.
Everyone is a selfish driver. _Everyone._ Which is why this argument is so stupid: there is no clear-cut victor, because everyone is a selfish asshole. You know what's worse than being stuck behind a "slow" driver in the left lane? Being stuck behind an _actually-slow_ driver in the middle lane.
@@NaruSanavai this is so true.
I guess the the saying: familiarity breeds contemp?
Everyone is contemptuous of everyone else.
I have no problem with a little reminder if I don't move over, as long as I have that option. So many times you go out to pass a few cars and someone else is comes speeding along and immediately is on your ass trying to push you faster. I'll move over when I can, but I won't do 40 over the limit (km/h) to satisfy your need to be ahead of every car you see. Patience is the biggest thing people are lacking on the road, most people know the rules, they just can't be bothered to follow them. If you flashed your lights as soon as you were behind me, I wouldn't brake test you, but you might have to watch me do a 1/4 mile long lane change before I am out of your way. I treat people with the respect they show others.
They should make the passing lane question an automatic fail in the written test.
the only problem is that it is a question on a test and people know how to memorize a test then forget it all on the road... the fact that there isnt mandatory highway section in a license test is obscene... it should be a 2 hour test minimum not a 4 turn one.
@@MrDiva480 Correct, I memorized everything I could the night before and passed.
Man that would be hilarious. Although like the others have said, memorizing it as just another question would be a big problem once the word gets out.
"You shouldn't be speeding, I don't have to move so you can break the law"
Yeah Karen, you're breaking the law to by failing to yield ROW.
I HATE people like that....just move over. No that damned hard.
You are wrong on this one. ROW doesn’t automatically switch to you just because you are speeding. “Karen” in this case would also be wrong as you have no authority to impede another driver unless you are a cop. ROW belongs to the drivers that have it by law.
@@stuckgrenadepin.225 wrong. You MUST move over when being overtaken
@@stuckgrenadepin.225 Damn. Y'all are goddamn T H I C K
Yeah, Karen shouldn't be in the passing lane in the first place if she's not passing anybody.
Too many people just don't get it that the left lane is the 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 lane, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 the 𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘵 lane. If you are not passing somebody, then you should not be in the 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 lane. It doesn't matter what your speed is: keep right except to pass.
There is a complete lack of logic displayed by drivers on American highways. I see a line of cars rolling down the highway in the passing lane, and the travel (right) lane is completely empty. And usually they're not going faster than the speed limit. In those cases, I pass 'em all in the right lane. It's the complete opposite how it's supposed to work. They use the passing lane to travel, and others are forced to use the travel lane to pass. It's how I would expect things to work on Bizarro World.
Driving in Europe is so much better. Most people travel in the travel lane and pass in the passing lane. And if there does happen to be a traveler in the passing lane, when you approach him from behind, he moves over!
"Everyone driving slower than you is an idiot. Everyone driving faster is a maniac" - George Carlin
Actually... yes... since I drive the legal speed limit for the road conditions... soooooo...
Speed limit is still slow
Liberty or Death last time i checked, road and traffic laws are laws of man. You can choose to follow the laws of physics or laws of gods as much as you want. But when I got that “driver license” paper thing, it was upon agreeing on following the laws of man. The end...
@Liberty or Death That's probably a two way highway with only two lanes if it's 55 mph. Safer that way. Technically he's right about the agreement with the license. Men aren't perfect so why trust them at higher speeds?
You guys must be fun at party's.
This is literally my mother. I love driving and judge poor driving. Always get told by bad drivers "you don't know, I've been driving for over (...) years and you're young...".
I find it really frustrating when they use experience over ability to justify their actions. Especially when all the experience is bad ability.
Keep it up, love the videos.
Literally everyone in my family. But that is because I am super agressive when I drive. I accelerate fast at the light if I am in the front to make sure the people behind me don't get blocked. And when I see someone in my blindspot, I make sure to accelerate, so they are not stuck in my blindspot.
@@nochill7884 same here. Also annoyed when people go 20+ under limit to merge onto highway.
@mister cleanin in Louisiana. Literally everyday for a 15 minute interstate commute from work to home. In stuck behind some oblivious person trying to merge in 10-15 miles under the limit. I usually am patient, but the second I see I got a clear spot on the left im flooring it to get up to speed and around. Then when I'm doing 5-8 over they come flying by. It's fine I guess but just so goddamn stupid
HEY! My drum brakes never stopped me from doing 110 mph on the interstate! They also never stopped me!
Don't forget recirculating ball steering!
Actually I think I'm gonna replace the 4 wheel drum brakes with disc in the front because.. yeah..
Legend has it this man is still trying to stop.
"Left Lane for Passing Only" might be the best way to get the point across.
Ethereal:
I don't travel all that often anymore, but I have noticed in some states that there are signs : Slower Traffic Move Right...or words to that effect, yet I often see folks sitting in the left lane when there are no vehicles in either lane to pass. My guess is, that like speed limit signs, folks don't "see" those signs or they believe that doing the speed limit doesn't make them that slower traffic.
There's a highway in CO with signs along the left lane that say exactly that. No chance of misunderstanding the message.
Rusty Climber You must be a modern day Sherlock Holmes to figure that one out.
Howard Kerr I typically see that on 2 lane roads that have passing lanes interspersed throughout.
Squatting Slav That’s where I saw it as well.
"I saw this guy going really fast so I got in front of him and went 15 under, ambulances amirite?"
That comment had me in stitches, though it's obviously a troll. Left lane losers would actually do this to an ambulance.
Seen a video of a BMW driver do this shit, actually he brought the ambulance to a dead stop in the middle of an interstate, because of course it was a BMW driver.
there are a couple of ambulance dash cam videos that show behaviour like that. it's unbelieveable.
"this dude" is referring to a random person
that comment was a joke about hypothetically racing an ambulance because it cut him off. "this dude" referred to the ambulance driver and the "nice car" was the ambulance. and "ambulances, amirite?" was the punchline revealing those, therefore completing the joke. jokes are like frogs - when you dissect them, they die and nobody enjoys it anymore but it helps you understand them better in the future
As someone who is a younger driver (I'm 24) I remember very distinctly IN THE TEXTBOOK that common driving law says that the left lane is the passing lane. Yes I may be speeding on my way to work, but always always I get back over into the right lane as soon as it's clear. No matter how fast or slow you're going, stay in the right lane unless you're actively passing someone. Thank you for coming to my educational TED talk
I’m pretty sure the “ambulances...am I right?” comment was all sarcasm.
Sarcasm in the internet gets lost so easily.
Lol. I made the same comment. I think it is a joke as well.
Yeah the joke is that the ambulance is the asshole that was speeding, heard it told a few times before lol
Yeah the guy is on about an ambulance not this guy in his viper.
Yeah it's a meme I've seen it before it's not serious
8:15 That was an ambulance joke. The "flashy car" was an ambulance. He wasn't talking about you, Casey.
He got r/whooshed
Ohhhhni didn’t get that one either haha, i could understand how Casey would get confused though since he does drive a flashy nice car. Plus no one is really making jokes in the comment section so he kinda took it seriously
Lol thank you! Was coming here to say this
Flashy? Like the lights on an ambulance. Ha!
@G S hes explaining it like he understands it, cause he does lol. Left lane hogging is being a dick, hes trying to help irrelevant of how pointless it is to try to explain basic shit to idiots
We have “Keep right except to pass” signs on pretty much every highway here. Not that the police ever enforce it.
Same in NJ.
Or follow it themselves for that matter. Many policemen consider themselves above the law. I wish we had these kinds of signs on Michigan roads. Better yet, more enforcement of it by the cops
James Young BUT NOBODY FOLLOWS THEM 😡
I wonder what would happen if the phrase “$500 Fine” were added to said signs.
When I was going through drivers Ed years ago it was taught that the left lane was only for passing. It was told several times. I've driven all over the country and major city areas are the worse for this. The more rural areas and highways in the middle of the country people are really good at not hogging the left lane.
Um, of course the cities are "worse". Left lanes are for turning, not overtaking. there is no passing lane in a city, only on highways and rural roads. Nobody should be (trying) overtaking on a 25-35mph road in a city.
@@PFAlt People are only talking about the freeways on here. Not city streets.
I've noticed this as well. I find that here in Montana the left lane hogs on the interstate are most likely to have Utah or Washington plates. I think it's because these states both have huge population centers full of people who are only accustomed to driving in free-for-all commutes.
Adam Garrity i agree and disagree. Been around many different areas and i actually think the city highways are typically better, as they have more lanes and more people willing to go over the limit. However, i do think rural drivers are often more considerate as a whole. Most of the time if they see someone coming up that’s going faster, they move over. It’s the few bad apples in rural areas that are why i think it’s worse here. 2 lane highways and grandma’s going under while passing 10 18 wheelers is a big problem here. Amazing how some people are so detached from care that they would rather take their good old time than to let the 20 cars they backed up pass by
@@austindrumhe4937 semi trucks are pretty bad out here on our 2 lane freeways. at times some semi drivers will try to pass each other and just get stuck side by side as they hit the same hill and be like that for miles. Specially where we have 80mph freeways it can cause quite the backup when a semi gets stuck going 55 next to another semi. But in the end its pretty amazing how going faster saves crap all time. Most of my commute currently has 65mph road construction and going 65 vs the old 80mph changed my 28mile commute all of 3 mins. I dont let it bug me anymore when some big semi gets stuck in front of me saves me alot of stress.
You should create a petition to add this to the US Driver’s Ed curriculum.
the issue is, in most states drivers ed isn't mandatory, which blows my mind. no less than 50% of the people on the road shouldn't have a drivers license, and i stand by that statement
👍👍👍
@@plantedrabbit3 yeah, i think it's only mandatory for people who are less than 18 years old
@@plantedrabbit3 how can they let people drive without driver's ed
@@badasstrapbass2313 I couldnt tell you, they make it insanely easy to get a drivers license in the us. so many people genuinely have no buisness being on the roads
I feel like so many people are distracted with cell phones. Just enjoy the drive.
@Chad H its unfortunate.
Some days i don't even turn the music on. And 4-cyl diesels don't have the greatest sound ha
People who use cell phones normally don’t drive enjoyable cars and they see driving as a chore
Solution: ye olde stick shift
I think this is becoming increasingly common because of all the new technology in cars. It's becoming easier and easier to let the car do the work and people just stop paying attention. Non performance cars feel so numb now it's almost feels like a driving simulator.
Also, manuals being phased out doesn't help. I would hate driving too if I just had to sit there and press a numb petal and drive through a steering wheel that feels like a video game.
Wow the part about how cars are exponentially faster, more capable, and safer yet our speed limits haven’t changed really hit hard and is kinda sad.
At this point, the limit becomes human ability. Cars might be a lot better but the average human is still just as stupid, inattentive and slow to react.
Worst thing. Me in my car with huge brakes and high quality tires, with no phone and no drink, going over the speed limit = ticket. Versus a piece of crap with bald tires, no brake pads left, drinking coffee = legal. So stupid.
@@VestedUTuber Absolutely this. Reaction times don't improve, and there are already problems with the slowing of reaction times with age. There are also distractions in the car that didn't exist fifty years ago - particularly phones, but also iPads and DVD players. Egos don't get any smaller, either.
@@VestedUTuber
I read somewhere that the response time for the average driver was 1 whole second. That is scary as shit, 1 second is a long time when going so fast.
I’ve driven like around 100mph on the highway before, and it might seem like it feels fast, but cruising at that speed, it doesn’t feel that fast. At least in Texas where I’m from and where literally everyone drives at least 5mph over the limit.
Once again, this is why I drive 140mph in the left lane.
with my hazards on while holding my horn down on cruise control.
If you see me coming up, you better move out the way, you left lane loser. I usually drive at 150. 😉
Cute Man then I just fast and furious hit the nitrous button and go into hyperdrive, simple. Unstoppable force.
I hope you have a good suspension so yer Red Stripe beer doesn't spill!
@@brentlanyon4654 Hooray beer!
my man
Oh, this should be just grand... people who, oddly enough, are all out of blinker fluid, defending themselves for literally breaking the law.
John H what is blinker fluid 😂
@@johnvarnes9101 lol one of my apache trucks has blinker fluid leaking from the cracked taillight lens lol
@@johnvarnes9101 it's in the auto parts store next to the muffler bearings and header joints. Across the isle from the cans of Elbow™ grease.
Giuseppe Ive been looking for a good price on muffler lube
@@james-sz9un dont forget to get new muffler bearings too 🖒
You know something? Left lane losers was the first video of yours I watched and what made me subscribe. Best decision I've ever made. Also as a firefighter, even though I ride in the back, it's always a pain seeing people going slow in the left even after they have plenty of warning when we're coming down the street (we're not hard to miss), however it's always funny to see their reaction when the officer lays on the air horn and friction siren. They get up and go FAST.
I know a retired cop and his favorite thing to do was drive behind these "left lane loser" for a few miles before pulling the over and listen to their stupid excuses.
I wonder how many people didn't even realize that they were the ones being pulled over at first simply because they thought they weren't doing anything wrong...
that sounds like my dream job LOL and vestedUtuber if they that dumb they shouldn't drive and it is literally on the written & driving test to get your license and also abit of commonsense goes a long way
That's a good cop.
@@ace-qi9pj Not just good, but a proper cop.
always remember you cant beat stupid, they will bring you to their level and win with experience
sometimes the best strategy to win is to not play (with stupid people)
but wait there is a fix for stupid the only problem is that it comes with jail time
Wanna bet!?
"I don't know where this psycho, self-righteous attitude is coming from"
Well mate, someone in the comment section of your last "left lane loosers" video has already explained: because people take everything as an attack against their ego.
This and proper merging on the highways really grind my gears.
Seen people come to complete stops on on ramps. Because either, the person merging is afraid to step on the gas, or people dont move over for them. Its annoying.
That's another one that's the same Down Under.... People not accelerating to match or exceed the speed of the freeway traffic.
Wait I thought the acceleration lane was for going 35 mph the entire lane.
I agree, and people not shutting off hi beams.
Sounds like there's an issue with your transmission.
I'll see myself out now.
I live in Europe and Im honestly shocked by this situation, never have I thought that such a thing should be explained
Right on. Everything you’re saying is absolutely correct. I texted your other video to my daughter who is on her permit.
I’ve already told her all the same things but it reinforces it when she hears it from another source.
Good where I live kids can get restricted licenses at 15 and all of them swerve in and out of traffic, because even though I live in a big city it's treated like a small town so you have to barely do anything to get your license.
One thing I learned from this, most of us can agree we hate people hanging in the left lane.
Well.... except the people that do it they obviously live in an alternate universe where they are correct
"lets just not say stupid things" -Casey, 2019. Pretty much sums up this video haha.
In this case he was being the one saint the stupid things. The commenter was obviously joking that he was slowing down an ambulance.
We have the same name bro!
I moved from Italy to Florida.... Hooooooly hell every time i drive home it's a battle
Lol. Italians can't drive so I don't want to imagine how bad it's in Florida
@@poldi2233 It's pretty bad here. I don't give the left lane hogs any break. I tailgate them and blast my Hella horns at them until they get out of the way.
I’m in Florida, I’ve seen someone fucking so a drift
@@poldi2233 I drove in Italy for the first time last year. They have gotten a bad rap. They aren't exactly Germans, but they put our motorists to shame.
The Californians in our party all got tickets for cruising in the left lane.
T M I have been driving for 12 years, never wrecked a car, had I fender bender, no speeding tickets and never pulled over and given a warning. I walked into the DMV when I moved to FL to ask for study material and walked out with a driver’s license without knowing anything about the US Highway Code... I had to study 8 months in italy to get a license. So sorry but over here is much worse than Italy, people do not know what they are doing, things like merging become pissing contest and drivers take everything personally if you dare get in front of them.
LA: every lane is for passing, including both shoulders. Its a free for all, the only rule is do whatever you can get away with. Lane discipline non-existant.
Not the shoulders! Lol ... LA isn't the road back from Vegas on a Sunday afternoon. But yes, undertakes or overtakes, in LA you go around the slow distracted fool in front of you. These 'oblivious' people pay some form of attention because they often speed up just enough to prevent passing and block traffic. We should shame people who cause accidents and traffic. Blocking a lane of traffic?? "Try harder" - Yelling 'try harder' at these broken down motorists has made them cry on occasion, perhaps they will try harder with their next car.
I appreciate the hostile driving style required in LA traffic.
I just moved to LA and it is infuriating. Yes, we have 5 lane freeways compared to the 2-3 lanes back in NY where I'm from, the issue is everyone likes to go whatever speed they please in any lane.
I just think they are a holes
I'm from the mid Atlantic area and went to LA last year cause I never been. Omg it was so easy to drive there. They actually drive relatively similar speeds on the highway. In dc/ maryland you have Joe blow driving 5 under then you have teenie bopper driving 30 over all on the same road. No one is consistant here and the roads are so criss crossed that people are merging constantly and switching lanes. Why is it so hard for the right lane to do the speed limit and the fast lane just for 5mph over to pass
that one... that comment at 8:39 was a joke... he was joking about pulling in front of ambulances. Other than the misinterpretation of that one comment, I 100% agree with everything you've said in these vids.
Fun social experiment you can try for yourself.
Set cruise control in your car to 2-4 mph faster than the current flow of traffic. Do not adjust your speed.
You will catch up to the car ahead of you.
Change lanes to pass car.
More often than not the car will speed up when you try to pass them. Most of the time this creates a rolling road block.
Often times, they will speed up to stay ahead of you, but they won't maintain that speed because they don't really want to dive that fast. Not consciously, anyway. They just don't want to be passed.
As long as you keep cruise control on, you will catch them again and again, and they will look at you as you pass them like YOU are the crazy one.
I do this all the time because I commute a ridiculous amount, and this happens constantly. Male drivers, female drivers, black, white, asian, it doesn't matter. People get insecure when they're being passed like it's some kind of race. It's petty and it's despicable how awful we are to each other when there's the slightest chance that someone else might get something before us.
This is why I always have to own a fast car, people will speed up so you dont pass them, and often times they cage you in so they can drive slow next to the driver in front of you. I require a minimum of 350 horsepower to deal with these people in a safe manner, fast cars can overtake safely with minimal effort.
@@ricardoallen786 Godspeed, you beautiful creature.
@Andrew 1010 you're a great driver especially opening up on ramps for merging cars I always try to do that I used to have a slow pos car and on ramps were always pretty sketchy
Being someone that has just recently has gotten their license, when I was in drivers ed, I was never told that the left lane is only a passing lane. I had to ask a question one time and it was then told to me. I never knew that you couldn’t drive in the left lane until I asked a question. It needs to be taught more. People can’t drive for their lives
At least in Iowa it's spelled out in our manuals, but there *are* some odd exceptions, because our road engineers have been lobotomized.
“Slower traffic keep right”
And they don't go right because they don't want to be perceived as "slow". 🤐
What are road signs? Half the people don't even read or understand them 😂
"I spent 60k on this new SUV! I'm not slow!"
**proceeds to zone out in the left lane drinking coffee and responding to texts.**
What if all the traffic is slow?
@@Mag1c4lyfe
There's so many, they distract us from watching our travel.
"Slower traffic keep right"
It's in the driver's handbook in pretty-much every state. Not much room for interpretation. You're not the police, it isn't your job to enforce the speed limit. The lane you happen to be in isn't your personal property. If faster traffic moves up behind you, move over at the first safe opportunity. It aint' rocket science.
Not if your doing the speed limit
YUKI JINJUJI Even if you’re going at the speed limit, if the right lane is free and you can safely switch you should do so and stay there until you need to pass.
@@catsbyondrepair Blocking the left lane is just as illegal as speeding. At least in my state. Even if you're going 160+, if someone comes up behind you you have to move.
@@catsbyondrepair did you even watch the video?
@mister clean wrong you do not exceed the speed limit under any circumstances
8:26 I think you completely missed the joke there my guy...
I'm glad to see this is making it to the Top Comments section. I was worried there for a minute.
A Skeptical Charmander I can’t believe how hard that flew over his head 🤣🤣
@@RichHomieGon yeah if I'm honest it's a tad cringy how mad he was getting about it, I guess his mindset was just hostile for the video so it slipped
New driver here and honestly never learned anything about lane discipline on the highway. That video and others on the internet are helping me learn very important things about driving even though I have my license already.
That is the right thing to do. You young generation get it but your elder ones are the stubborn cloggers ... sad but true . Keep doing what you do !
8:15 that was a joke my man....
The joke is that an “a-hole driver is going very fast in an expensive car so the narrator goes in front of the car and slows down to prove a lesson to them.. only the a-hole driver is an ambulance.”
Nitro LMAO he was so hurt too
Omfg it went completely over his head, I was dying
Nitro honestly this dude is nowhere near as smart as he thinks he is lmao
Well it is a pretty easy joke to not understand because of the lack of body language in words. @Clayton, alright, it's pretty naive to say that, I mean he has many achievements and has helped young people grow and learn.
Lmao I was trying to figure out how he even took it😂 I still don’t understand how he got that one wrong😂😂
I love people that actually have the common sense to get out of the way when you fly up behind em
sam grabel that’s me I’ll spot you coming up from 500 feet away and I’ll speed up and get passed the car I’m overtaking faster and then move over and let you by
sam grabel that’s me I’ll spot you coming up from 500 feet away and I’ll speed up and get passed the car I’m overtaking faster and then move over and let you by
@@leroyholmes7054 God bless you
Hahha me too, about 1/8 people will actually switch lanes when they see you flying down the left lane
Leroy Holmes same here. Doesn’t hurt me a bit to speed up and let someone by. People will have a line of six cars behind them and still not move. Pathetic, entitled, and apparently these people think they are officers.
The only real way to end this is enforcement of the law.
Why would they when it's far easier and economical with a better rate of revenue generation to just sit on the side of the road with a radar gun while munching donuts? Catching people committing most violations other than speeding requires a bit of active participation in traffic.
I would not prefer that because their presence on the road is a good way to slow all lanes down and create the very thing you wanted to avoid. Or is this sarcasm?
Yeah here in PA we have so many people dont use there headlights etc and the cops do nothing to stop it, last time somone asked they said they had better things to do like if you dont enforce the little laws the big ones wont be respected.
@@KiRiTO72987 Slippery slope fallacy. People who are disinclined to follow a particular law will not necessarily be convinced by enforcement of others. I would bet that most people breaking the speed limit aren't also out raping and murdering people, for example.
How about better education? It seems to work in other countries. Punishment is a short term solution if you ask me.
Hit the nail on the head when you addressed the licensing, every state is different. I think interstate highways need to follow an identical set of laws.
I saw Al. drivers manual and there is ZERO lane selection information for highways! ZERO lane identification.
I absolutely hate when people say they are driving the speed limit in the left lane, so it’s an excuse to never move back over, all while they’re actually breaking the law by not moving back over and are welcoming a potential accident by someone hitting them from behind - these people are petty
Stop tailgating tool
"Poorly educated in terms of driving"
I think it's a pretty safe bet that we can just go with "poorly educated", and leave it at that.
Lol 😂
Well, I know some massive nerds and straight a students who just can’t drive
I don't think "leaving it at that" solves the problem. They need to be educated, and then held responsible for their actions.
GeoMac Granddad they just need to be held responsible they were the ones responsible for learning it’s not the governments job to teach you to drive the laws are on paper the resources are there there is no excuse for going out and driving without understanding the basic rules
@@elgringoec It was 'leaving it at that' for the _description_ of that type of driver, nothing else.
Here in Indiana police have been really focusing on ticketing drivers for staying in the left lane and not passing. Also indiana has signs everywhere that say keep right except to pass.
I drive over 2000 miles a week in Indiana and I've never once seen this enforcedu.s. 31 a lot all the way from the bottom of the state to the Michigan line _ I cover the entire toll road east to west i-69 North and South travel a lot on 70 never seen this being enforced fact the only thing I see being enforced he traps Which are simple money grabs - important several drunk drivers every week - frustrated by drivers who will not get out of the left lane going too slow - find manage to get around them they will tailgate all the way up to about 90 miles per hour - tailgaters are dangerous to I shouldn't have to worry about you running over me if I happen to run into a deer I should only have to worry about a deer in rain the road in front of me which happens a couple of times a week - last January I had two people following me so closely when the road iced over when I tap my break just enough make the brake light come on. Slow down that they spot off the road because they were startled so badly
Phuqem I have seen some people pulled over for left lane driving on highways I don’t drive the interstate much. I live about smack dab in between Terre Haute and Bloomington and I understand your frustration people tailgating is an entire issue in of itself especially in icy conditions. What it all boils down to is common sense and there is a major lack of it today and this is coming from a “millennial”.
You are truly awesome. Some people settle for someone having a lot of cool cars as being cool, but the fact that you're educated and disciplined is just amazing. I look up to you, bro.
Relatively new driver here in the previous video you mentioned how to adjust your mirror and its been a life saver
Another tip Corvettes are invisible when lowered if riding your bumper in a truck
@@urznightmare interesting, good note.
Truck drivers call it the “hammer lane”. Cause when you get in it you drop the hammer and pass and then get back in the right lane.
Let me know when they hit the hammer. It has been my experience that they move over. Then slowly crawl by the other semi taking 19 miles to pass. barely exceeding the speed of the semi in the right lane. Iv'e seen it more than a thousand times in my 40 years of driving.
Truckers call it the f'n with the non paid drivers lane. They are by far the worst drivers on the road.
@@bmel7718 I think some trucks have speed limiters which a lot of the time barely allow them to go faster than whoever is in the right lane. Doesn't justify them passing like that but it's why it happens like that sometimes
b mel
That’s because truck drivers are trying to get somewhere & then those Sunday drivers block up both right lanes ... so the truck gets in the hammer lane to get past said Sunday driver however once that slow driver see’s a truck trying to pass them their ego takes over & they all of a sudden remember where the gas pedal is & instead of speeding up & going on about their business they speed up just a little bit to stay barely in front of the truck or most dangerously ride right along side the truck..... if more people were like Casey then I don’t think that wouldn’t happen so often.
@@bmel7718 if only you knew.
@@bmel7718 happened once when we were driving up a mountain in Tennessee coming back from florida.. because up a fucking GRADE is when a semi should pass another semi.
I can second that there are no road rules in cali every one is entitled to do what ever.... i prefer to do about 80/90 in the left lane.
That's what I do in Omaha, use the passing lane, do 80/90 for 1 minute, then merge over to the middle lane. Just to get to the larger gaps with less vehicles around, to not be so crowded.
Bullshit semi trucks can't go over 55 anywhere in cali..crazy ticket prices and cops dont fuck around...I used to drive trucks
I always hate driving in Cali. Most of my family lives there, so I visit frequently. It’s always a relief to drive in other states afterwards.
@@jonathankeith524 California is like Walmart, get your shii and get out!
It's not about your actual speed. It's about your speed relative to others. If you're going by another, go left; when clear, go right. Easy peasy.
How anyone can justify sitting in the left lane is beyond me. Clearly shows a lack of knowledge in driving
Got the same issue in Australia but obviously the right hand instead. I'm on my green P's in Victoria which means I've done 120 hours driving with a supervisor (parents) and now 1 year on my own. Whenever i get on the freeway i run into an issue where i'm in the right lane passing a slow vehicle in the left. They'll pull out into the right lane themselves to pass a slow vehicle in the left instead of waiting for me to pass them and then overtaking the slow vehicle that was in front of them, this creates bumper to bumper traffic at 110km'h involving myself who's only got about 300 hours driving experience. Another common thing is tailgating on freeways at those speeds mentioned before which leaves no time for reacting or breaking!
Kritisch the problem in Australia and USA is people learn from their parents instead of undergoing standardised driver schooling and training.
@@buellterrier3596 Definitely, you've got some who waited till 21 with no learning and just passed the test here to get their licence. Others who are older and got their licence when it was a matter of seeing your local police station and international drivers as well. So a big % of drivers here don't have the standardised training and knowledge you need to be a fully capable driver. lucky for us you get picked up and fined really quick for hogging the right lane, the police take it serious but i still notice the issue. Speeding and tailgating are bigger problems on the freeway since i notice it more.
Erotikstudio Winkler GmbH it’s different in every state in Australia. In Victoria where I live you need to get your learners permit which is a test you do at their office with 32 questions about road laws, you can read a handbook that has all the state laws. Once you pass that you have to drive on your learners which you can get at 16 and log 120 hours with a supervising driver which is basically someone who has a full divers licence. For example a partner or guardian. Once you turn 18 and have 120 hours logged you need to sit two test. One is a computer test which has videos play of hazards and you click when you would react to the hazard and the other test is a 45 min drive test with an instructor to see you’re capable of driving. Once you complete the test you go on red P’s for a year and green p’s for 3 years which basically means you can drive on your own but with restrictions like no mobile phone use even for gps or banned sports cars. After you finish your P’s you get your full licence
@@keenanmcritchie109 Mate, that's way better then it was in Victoria in the 80's. Four lessons then the test, and you could drive any power to weight car under 4tonnes. And some roads still had deristriction signs, so no limit, just a dangerous driving fine if you did anything stupid (such as Melton to Melbourne via the Calder in under 20 min...). They brought in the coloured plates just after I got my licensed, and the training has gotten better. We learnt more driving paddock bombs then we did on the street.
There is a way to get people to move over on most roads, just not the Westgate or Monash, drive something so daggy they're afraid you'll just use it to push them out of the right lane 🤣
@@buellterrier3596 i agree by learning from your parents you will end up picking up their bad habits. (not saying your parents are bad drivers of coarse.) but learning from a proper driving school is a lot better as they know the way the system works and you become a better driver as well.
My dream: US to adopt German or Scandinavian driver license acquiring procedures and education.
German drivers on average are far worse at driving than Americans. The British have far better accident records as do the Swiss with lower speeds on public highways. All of these countries, and especially the whole of Scandinavia are light rail countries as well. Germany IS a auto nation to a large degree, but their accident rate in townships is WAY worse than any American statistic.
@@thiosemicarbizidebenzoylal2921 I imagine german streets are way tighter than in the US. When I went to japan I was scared by how everyone drove on such tiny streets.
This is important
@@thiosemicarbizidebenzoylal2921 Care to provide me a legitimate source for your statistic? Because I can't find a single source anywhere that shows either fatalities or even individual incidents are worse in Germany than the U.S. The number of individual incidents has risen in recent years, but the U.S. definitely takes the cake in terms of a public health problem. I don't think your assertion is true.
@@thiosemicarbizidebenzoylal2921 It doesn't help that their city streets are tiny af.
So were highways made for you to have fun on?
In short: yes
In long: yes
even longer: yeeeeees
I’m not trying to have fun by going fast I’m just trying to make it home in a reasonable time and not have a stroke cause people are blocking the passing lane
I'm happy hes making a video while not driving this time. Distracted driving is just as dangerous as left lane hogs. 👌
In all actuality it wasn't made to have fun on whatsoever.
It was made to move the military initially.
The us highway system was made for transporting goods and leisure
The interstate system
Not so much
But people have a tendency these days wish to forget the past
@@mwhitelaw8569 i heard the reason for the yellow and white lines is because if the military needs to land airplanes on the highway, the markers on the highway would become runway markers.
I`m thankful to you for talking about this, I was an international truck driver in Europe before coming to the US, I always drive on the right lane and have been frustrated about this topic for many years. Good job, though I think most of those guys will never change the bad habits. Mauro from Italy
Here is a simple solution I learned years ago; "If you are passed on the right, move to the right". It is really that simple.
Why not just stay in the fucking right lane in the first place? Only switch to the left if you are passing. Switch back right away when you are done, and you’re not going to get passed on the right.
Rule: unless you intend on passing someone, stay in the right lane at all times.
MrBonso exactly. That’s what I do. If someone wants to break the speed limit or pass all the time let them do it. Just drive in the right. I have a quick car but I drive in the right almost all the time. Use the left only for passing when someone can’t even go the speed limit lol
@@2222thebeast Why not? Because fucking idiots follow along in that right lane like a bunch of leaf cutter ants, such that it puts people to sleep. I rarely go the speed limit because it is more dangerous being around half asleep morons, thus I move past them. Have you ever noticed how cars group together on the freeway blocking traffic because some slow old person is afraid of driving. In southern California just about everyone goes 75 and then there are cars passing you at 80, that is unless you live in LA then everyone goes 35 on the freeway. I like the stimulation of speed. It keeps my mind alert, and yes I am a good driver with no accidents and I have been driving for 57 years. AND YOU ?
I remember seeing somewhere a guy in a 300zx with a sicker on the back of his car, a big one I might add, If i just passed you, you're in the wrong lane!
Left lane hogs are hall monitors, I give them the Nascar swerve
Oooooh boy that was too funny to me 😂
Run ‘em 💥
Exactly! Start swerving back when your door is even with their front bumper.
Woohoo Ricky Bobby I do that too bro people get nervous as hell sometimes hahahahahaha
Oh boy, you've just given me the worst idea to try from now on lol.
"left lane for passing only" signs all over Maine
12gaDefender same on hgwy in Vancouver. Makes no difference
We need those signs in Iowa. The problem is getting worse every day. Not sure why our state doesn't invest in signs like that. It's the most concise way to say it.
What are road signs? Most people don't even read or understand them lol
cdorhoutable oh yea Iowa can be horrible. Two lane roads for miles stuck behind someone going 10 under is infuriating. And as for passing it becomes difficult due to limited vision because of all the hills.
Need those in CA too
I currently in the police academy. My brother has been a CHP for 5 years now and he loves giving tickets to people going 10 under the speed limit on the left lane. He hates these idiots as well so thankfully he’s getting them for us. He tells me he gets around 30-50 tickets a month on these people alone lol
I live in the South and Southerners are infamous for doing this especially on I 10
I one time had to cut in front of a vehicle hogging the left lane with 3, 18-wheelers trying to pass. You gotta be a BAD driver to congest I 10.
I'm in a Mazda 3, so a small car. Wedged in front of this slow ass driver and didn't tap my brakes but gradually slowed down forcing this driver to go even slower. Once there was enough space, I flashed my lights to the first truck signaling that driver to pass in front of me.
Driver passed me and as such proper road etiquette flashed back. That was my "thank you" for giving the driver a chance to pass.
Let all three pass than sped up and all three diesels had moved back into the right lane as all they needed to do was pass. Only one speeding was me.
Southerners are also bad for driving with high beams or constantly with no regard lol
Yes sir fellow I-10 guy!
Arizona in general is shit drivers. Almost been killed by people merging in an intersection, stopping at a green light, etc
Yeah, and Louisiana is probably the WORST section of I-10 you can drive. I'm originally from there and people in Denver have better lane discipline than the people in my home state. Alabama and Georgia are pretty awful too.
If you're in the left lane driving 100, and someone behind you is going 101, you have to move over.
If I'm hauling ass in the fast lane, and someone comes up behind me hauling a little more ass, I am already speeding up to move over before they even have to tap their brakes or let off the accelerator. I don't know why this is so hard for lane hogs to grasp.
SuperN0va The only time is when they’re coming up at an illegal speed while you’re already trying to pass someone
@@ndnrb_ yeah, I just get out of the way bc if I'm in the fast lane and they come up fast on my six, they're a super speeder at that point.
I did that in Germany.
Le-Grande right I hate when I’m already going over the speed limit and someone comes flying on my ass lol brake check inbound for sure
In most states, (including here in Ohio for us) its a state law to keep right unless passing, and slower vehicles are supposed to stay right, i just dont get how that is so hard for some people to understand. The only time this would not apply would be if it was otherwise directed for construction
Most states is not accurate..unfortunately. there are only a few states that require you to stay right, unless passing.
Not In Arizona...
Or when required to move over for a stopped emergency vehicle on the shoulder I suppose.
it's because police cite with heavy fines for small speed violations regardless of the situation.
In Australia, they have signs that say "keep left unless overtaking." "Passing" means passing in the opposite direction there.
The bad news is, they are also terrible at keeping out of the overtaking lane anywhere near a city.
I've been to a number of cities in California where the overtaking lane is designated the cruising lane in cities to allow traffic to merge in and out effectively. Too much through traffic in the right lane causes major traffic jams all the time. Its so bad they've actually installed traffic lights on the on ramps to the freeway. Nobody allows people to pass on the open highways, nobody allows people to merge in cities.
Also "On multi-lane roads, if the posted speed limit is 90km/h or more, or if the road has a ‘keep left unless overtaking’ sign, you must not drive in the right-hand lane unless you are:
overtaking
turning right
making a U-turn
avoiding an obstruction
driving in congested traffic
using a special purpose lane that you are allowed to be in.
Drivers are allowed to overtake on the left on all multi-lane roads."
www.qld.gov.au/transport/safety/rules/road/left
Thanks for the reminder Casey. While I have always been aware that the left lane is for passing, your video has made me put more of a conscious effort into practicing lane discipline. My commutes in the daily, and fun trips in the "sports car" have been more enjoyable because of it.
I hope you can also cover the zipper merge, as I've had easily seen many potential accidents where people are just ill-informed about how merging is supposed to work. Many people seem to just cut people off to prevent them from merging at the merge point.
The us needs to crack down on left lane hogging.
Dan the car guy and cell phone use. People be distracted as hell causing traffic and accidents. They should suspend their license .
Yes! I was behind someone on the interstate last Sunday while she was on her cellphone in her Suburban. Swerving over the white line clear over the rumble strip, back on and swerving into the passing lane and back over at 60mph. I was too dang scared to have to drive next to her to make a pass.
Tickets for left lane hogs, do it now
mister clean Hmm 🤔 I may start concealing one in my center console for those type of people.
Yesterday my dad was wanting me to tell him where to get lunch. Well we get close to an exit that has some places to choose. I'm like let's go there. He thinks about it and was like you got to tell me quicker.
Next time I give him more time but this time he has to floor it to pass the car on the right.
When we stop he's says:"you have to tell me what exit before it comes up because I'm driving 75."
Me: "well if you weren't driving in the left lane the while time maybe we could have made the first exit."
Him: "I'm not a semi or someone that needs to use the slow lane."
Me: "it's the law."
Him: "who cares."
Me: "..."
Literally drove like 400+ miles in the left lane unless we had to get over to let someone pass or merge because of construction.
These people dont get it, the left lane is the passing lane. Shaking my head
Here in Canada and particularly my province there is signs that read....."keep right except to pass" also here in Canada lots of people are not able to read too unfortunately lol
Are the signs in French? (JK, 😆).
Lol facts especially in ontario.. The 404 is a great example
nie wissen here in toronto 70% of the population cant read english and they drive like morons .
What drives me crazy is the people who can't read that a lane is ending in 1/2 mile etc. They either think that the sign is a lie or they can't read. This causes more traffic backup then it should. If people moved over way ahead of time there would be no jostling at the last moment for space.
@@kolavadae4592 feel you on that one, the QEW is another, droves of rolling pharmacies down here in Niagara hogging up that left lane , love it when they get their dream monte carlo ss V8, and never exceed 90kmh with the damn thing.. like we are supposed to show them respect for owning the thing or something ..if his windows are open, i usually go down to 2nd with the duc.. at 90 the noise level is ..illegal .. and i just sit there at 7grand..he cant go slower or escape.. mad fun on the 406
I think the "ambulance" comment was a joke about pulling in front of an ambulance and slowing down.. Could be wrong though. Here's to hoping more people learn how to use the left lane
Agreed
I am a new driver and have had my license for less than a year, this issue is definitely a result of poor drivers education. To get my permit I took a test that I did not study for and passed on my first try (No mention of the left lane being a passing lane on the test) followed by a behind the wheel driving test that consisted of driving around the block and changing lanes to turn once, the whole test took maybe 10 minutes and there was never any mention of the highway whatsoever. In hindsight I should not have gotten my license that easily and should have been properly educated, Thanks to your videos I am now cured of the left lane lunacy
I recently was in Europe 30 years after my last visit there and quickly remembered how much I missed driving on the continent. It was so refreshing to drive where people had lane discipline, used their mirrors, and knew how to drive. In some countries to get a license you have to demonstrate skid control and recovery in multiple weather conditions and can take up to a year before you get the license. In America you have to know how to parallel park. And most drivers only use their mirrors in the morning while shaving or putting make-up on.
If I sound a little frustrated, I am. It really doesn’t have to be this hard to get from point A to point B, just use some common sense, courtesy and for the love of god use your mirrors.
TheCannonball79 Agreed. No I don’t live in Europe, but the things I see people doing in their mirrors on US highways at 70mph is absurd. On top of them not being able to drive in the first place, now they’re equipping their cars with back up sensors, lane departure sensors, sensors for this, that, and the other. So now they’re fully relying on this equipment and see no reason to use the mirrors like anyone with common sense would. The number of people I’ve had to cut me off on the highway is ridiculous, they’re just looking straight ahead with absolutely no idea that they nearly sent both of us into a full blown spin out on the highway. Had someone who backed into my car last year by doing that..and it was straight behind theirs by at least 8-10 yards!
Im waiting for the retards to reply "just move there asshole"
It doesn't help that the need to know knowledge for the drivers test is so low a 10 year old could pass it.
I didn't even have to know how to parallel park here in Florida.
Stay in Europe. Just helped the 405 traffic congestion.
I'm so glad I found your channel. You are voicing all of my frustration while driving. It's so good to hear someone speak out about our countries driving problems. Love that you actually provide solutions to the problems as well
Sheesh, the American ego is so fragile. Didn’t think that many people would get upset, lmao!
Southern Pimp , they should ,truth can hurt!
Everyone anymore seems to have pretty thin skin TBH. Critisism, even when constructive, looks to be one of the most frowned upon actions one can take currently. Don't want to offend anyone or anyones actions or else they might have to use introspection, and we cant have that lol
They’re only hurt because it applied to them and now you know who it is due to their idiocy.
Southern Pimp wherrmybitches?
Ikr
The damn Dunning-Kruger effect is everywhere man...
Sooo it seems that some people ignore the road signs that simply say “Slower traffic keep right”
The lower part of my state doesn't have them, I love them however, I almost never see left lane hogs in marked areas.
these signs are EVERYWHERE and probably the most ignored sign in the world.
Yeh One time I was behind this pickup truck, driving behind him on the left lane, the right lane was wide open, I was trying to be patient, waiting for him to move over to the right, but he ended up not doing so, so I had to pass him on the right, and then he decides to speed up 🤦♂️🙄
If you were to ask any of my friends or family they would tell you that I'm one of the most calmest and chill guy they know. But these left lane hogs really piss me off and cause me to have road rage! It doesn't matter if you're going MACH 1 or 2 in the left lane, if someone comes up behind you, YOU MOVE OVER! It's the law! Plain & simple! The worst is when you try over taking them from the right lane and they speed up so that you can't get ahead of them. SMH.
I don't understand why police departments haven't taken advantage of this great revenue stream potential yet. I bet if we eliminate these left lane hogs, we would improve traffic flow by at least 30%.
The State of Michigan troopers cracked down on left lane hogs
www.wxyz.com/news/state-police-cracking-down-on-left-lane-drivers-across-michigan
Don't let it bug you enough to affect your mental health and cause stress. At this point its pretty much just gonna happen. So I just deal with it and dont worry about the minor amout of time i lost because I got stuck behind someone. It used to really bug me but after not letting it make me so mad it has made driving more peaceful. I still dont like it but it doesn't cause rage anymore
@@Demon09-_- I agree with you. Nowadays I try to stay in a cruising mood and the far right lane and not let it bother me. Also try doing most of my travels outside of rush hour.
Police departments should have some unmarked cars to just drive around in traffic without being identified so they can start ticketing these people. I'm so sick of lazy ass cops sitting in speed traps hoping to catch the one person who didn't immediately slam on the brakes as soon as they saw the cop car camped out.
"Better Training" I remember when I first got my license. My driving part of the test was a route that was all right turns with one left turn. Because of the left turn there was only one lane change. A few stop lights and only one stop sign. Nothing else. No parallel parking. Never exceeded 35mph. I look back and think I should have never been given a license. I was not properly trained at 16 and became a better driving through experience. Not everyone develops without the training.
I was in a similar situation, when I started my test the instructor legit told me "Don't worry honey I failed my test 3 times, I will take care of you" Had me go around the block and back to the parking lot, only went through maybe 2 stop lights and some stop signs in a residential neighborhood
@@bigjohn7583 Yep, i got my liscense at 17, passed. No highway, only went through a neighborhood and back. had to learn the highway myself. last year aswell
@@bigjohn7583 How the heck do you fail that 3 times in an auto?
@@TimpBizkit no idea! That’s why I was concerned 😂
8:16 I think this guy was just being silly. When he said "Saw this dude" I don't think he meant you, just... some guy. Saying he got in front of him to slow him down since he was going fast. Punchline at the end, it was an ambulance!
Edit: I'm noticing now lots of people have commented this. Sorry for adding another one!
I feel like this and distracted driving are WAY more dangerous and sadly less focused on than speeding by driver's education and police.
They're more focused on their conversations, makeup, food etc. instead of getting there
The one gets me the most no turn signal how the hell am I supposed to know your about to turn or change lanes right into my path. Plus what with everyone driving around with no brake lights or headlights. One car I saw only had one headlight working a truck didn’t have any brake lights. I didn’t even know he/she was stopping.
On a road with no intersections speed limits really just don't make sense. If we removed speed limits on freeways and went full Autobahn, then people would learn really fast to stay right unless they are passing. And I'd bet that traffic would disappear for the most part unless there's a wreak on the freeway, but with less heavy traffic (because you can actually pass people) we'd probably see less traffic accidents, and definitely fewer multiple car pileups.
Funny thing, when traffic gets crazy slow I wonder, there's no accident, no bad weather, what's the hold up? Then I pass a cop using a radar gun and as soon as I pass him then traffic speed picks back up again. Nobody wants to get a speeding ticket, so it's funny that a cop sitting there can actually make traffic way worse.
Most accidents on the freeway are due to lane changes, and when faster cars try passing slower cars they'll change lanes more, it's that changing lanes that causes problems. But what if the left lane were generally open? Then people are not likely to safely change lanes for passing maneuvers only, and then change lanes again once they've safely passed. So yeah, I totally agree, speeding isn't as big of a danger as constant lane changes.
No it's not, my driver's ed course never even brought up speeding.
Your viper is literally the exact spec my father told me he was going to buy before he passed away! Awesome.
Sorry to hear about your father's passing ☹️
@@Mag1c4lyfe that is ok! He would be happy to see a community like this for people like us to go to!
@@bigbosha5270 Long live car culture.
I also wanted to add the most dangerous highway moments I've had are when I'm trying to pass slow traffic through the center of the highway due to left lane blocking and I have merge traffic interfering and having to pass between cars on either side of me over multiple lanes