@@williardbillmore5713 that may got more to do with horrible driving and lane discipline and manner in USA. Speeders+left lane hoggers+road rage+poor drivers+right lane overtake=dangerous. In Germany everybody go very fast and the death rate is much lower, because they don't have to overtake from the right, everybody give way to faster car behind when possible, and it makes a fast car going 180mph passing by a 60mph car a safe thing. It's idiotic to blame speeding the 'dangerous' thing, while it's more like the fault of the entire package. The only exceptional case is speeding that is over the geometric limit of the road and capability of the car and driver.
@@williardbillmore5713 My point is, even with unlimited speed autobahn, Germany is able to achieve a much lower fatality rate than USA, which has conservative speed limits. The difference is, German people have good lane discipline, they always stay on the right most lane unless overtaking and give way to the faster car behind whenever possible: it leads to a better culture on the road where no one tries to get and stay into the way of other people. The manner in Germany just CAUSES LESS ACCIDENTS, because nobody is blocking others, nobody is mad, everybody is happy. In USA when you are staying on the fast lane while not passing, you are forcing people faster than you to pass you from the right, which is dangerous (and undertaking is actually banned in Germany, but it works because the Germans would not have to undertake). Yes if you crash at higher speed you are more likely to die, but if your country have good lane discipline, even the speed limit is raised significantly or removed, you would still have less crashes than having low speed limit but bad lane discipline. You may think I take Germany as an example but it may be inappropriate because people there are not 'speeding' after all, however, people there still travel at a wide spectrum of speed, truck at around 60mph, normal cars maybe 90 to 120 mph and some faster cars maybe doing over 150 to 180mph. So the DYNAMICS still applies, you can even think of it as a place where 'speeding' is extremely severe for the analogy.
@@williardbillmore5713 That's because most traffic deaths are drunk drivers, red light runners, or maniacs going 130 mph and wrapping their car around a tree, not someone going 80 in a 65 on the highway. Stop making excuses for left lane hogs. Also you replied to every thread on this video, you're clearly one of those deranged wannabe vigilantes who try to force everyone to go exactly the speed limit by illegally and dangerously blocking the left lane. You're extremely salty that all right-thinking people find you to be a worthless and irritating moron. You don't deserve nice things.
@@williardbillmore5713 yes sir. I go by the flow of traffic, so usually around 20 above or 20 below the speed limit. So the left lane usually should mean the passing lane, but I don't see a problem as long as the person is passing or if they are going a safe speed, since alot of the time people go way over the flow of traffic and nearly hit people. What I find funny is people in the left lane go over the flow of traffic even though they may not be passing, yet somehow it upsets everyone. The only time I saw someone get pulled over for being in the left lane was when they were going 60 in a 60, but the flow of traffic was around 65 to 70, I casually passed him in the right lane at around 67mph, then the cop pulled him over, my guess was he was slightly disturbing the flow of traffic so the cop probably just wanted to let him know. I hate when people go like 100mph by me in ethier lane when the speed limit is 55 to 70 and everyone is going between those, and some dickwad decides its need for speed lol.
@@SenorPain81 OJ took his famously slow ride/police chase in a 94 Bronco after killing Nicole and her boyfriend. I don't think he was passing anyone that morning.
Yamaha SR650 I live in Houston. That is beltway 8 no ez tags in the full service lanes. Gotta obey street signs. Speed limit only 60 mph those cars are always going well over the speed. She’s not speeding but going correct speed. Those other cars are going around 80 and speeding as always. In Texas you can go above no further 5 mph or no lower 5 mph. I doubt she was going under 55 mph.
@Duke Johnson it did this year. All ez lane 6 12 lanes all ez. Out towners get a warning for 2 tolls after that it’s 5 dollar a toll. It’s Houston people use to do change cause this city 20 years ago didn’t have 4 million people , we barley had a million. Houston has one of the best freeway systems out there they are one of only few cities that do quadruple stack freeways and has the best freeway with 26 lanes on i10 which is the largest in the United States.
That is someone who should not be allowed to drive a car. They clearly have a panic attack at the slightest driving stress, lord knows how they'd react to a real emergency...
@@jeffhaman9010 Ill bet a judge would fall off his chair laughing at your "joke". Pit maneuvers kill. Vehicular homicide is no "joke" asshole. Why do you feel you are entitled to speed anywhere you want anytime you want. Why do you feel everyone is obligated to get out of your way so you can drive as fast as you want, Karen? Why do you feel that fantasizing about attacking people with your car is a funny joke? Who the hell do you think you are?
@@williardbillmore5713 Why would I be in front of a judge for making a joke on YT? Who said anything about speeding? Also, it's courteous to go the same speed as the flow of traffic. You sound like one of the left lane assholes that I mentioned in my original post. What gives you the right to hang out in the left lane, while going slower than the flow of traffic? If you're on a highway or interstate (this doesn't always apply in metro areas when traffic is heavy), and you're not passing anyone, stay out of the left lane (also known as the passing lane). Some states have even passed laws that make it unlawful for assholes to just hang out in the left lane. Can you believe that people would be so uncourteous that the state would have to pass a law to keep these knuckleheads in a lane that they shouldn't be in? If we find ourselves in a post apocalyptic society, you might want to stay out of the left lane Willard/Daren (the definition of a Karen/Daren is the asshole who drives in the left lane, and could care less if they look in the rear view mirror-that's the mirror glued to your windshield- and see 10 cars behind them, and also cars are passing them on their right, because they think they're out for a Sunday drive) ;)
@@speedycpuI don't have that much horsepower but I do have a car with a single gear and instant torque so most losers don't stand a chance when they try that.
exactly i see practically everyone in the left 2 lanes, right lanes totally open. this is human nature tho.. everyone wants to be at the front of the pack (or believe they are)
Syed Ali no all traffic keep right. It's safer for everyone no matter how fast or slow you are going and is also part of the reason why nearly every European country has safer roads than the US.
only idiot here is you. There's always someone moving faster than you and thus you need to move right because YOU are slower traffic. Also the law isn't even the same in every state and several require you to always keep right no matter how many lanes there are even when there is no one wanting to pass you. Perhaps you should look the law up before being such a moron.
Collin Parsons. I don't think that motivates them. They go the limit to excuse the action, but I think the motivation is actually fear. They are afraid of merging traffic, big trucks and probably very unsure of the geometry to their right. See how the driver is very nervous trying to go right. They have plenty of room but they can't tell. Poor skill and fear. Best that they hire an Uber.
S Tho I agree. I also believe that they have the right idea about self imposing a hard speed limit for themselves. I sure as hell don't trust them going any faster. Now if only they would cruise near the limit in the correct lane.
melinuxf00l doing exactly what you should be doing as a religious speed limit driver I respect that and wish everyone that had your same values . I go over the speed limit by a little and always move over back to the right asap after I’m done passing a slower person using the left lane and that’s how it should be . Only evil ppl stay slow in the left lane causing a rolling road block and there’s a special place in hell for them !
This is the lane to drive in at just abov the speed of the other cars provided you have done your homework and have an eagle eye out for traffic enforcement, (NOT easy in the US ) and can manage a 5kph increase in speed to get by the blockage and put yourself in a relatively open area of the road.
Yeah because nobody knows how to move the fuck back to the right lane when they are done passing and just camp in the left lane. Even on a 3 or more lane highway, the middle lane is just another passing lane. Anything other than the right lane is a passing lane. Also, it is dangerous and sometimes illegal to pass on the right.
This is the problem, in a nutshell. These people think that the more their world is chipped away at, the more they are right about maintaining that imaginary world. Feedback seems to have the opposite effect that it should and I have no idea how we got here.
If you can get around them lol. Sometimes you can’t bc all the other lanes are full of other people who don’t know to move to the right when done passing
Problem with (majority of) American drivers is lack of consideration. The mentality is "my car, I drive how I want" but they forget that roads are public. Even in sh*thole third-world countries, drivers try to accommodate eachother. Even if somebody is driving reckless, you let them pass you because it's much better than causing an accident out of revenge, or creating roadrage, or slowing the flow of traffic. As much as I hate people who swerve through traffic (BMW/Audi drivers), I can understand their frustration, because the roads are big enough to accommodate all the drivers, the drivers just aren't organized nor are they using the road efficiently.
Golden rule of thumb: If you don't have enough driving skill set to REV the engine to a higher RPM, please don't camp on the left lane. There are many lanes to your right to begin with for freeway training at legal speed. If you see a lot of cars cutting in front of you = "Move your slow S to the right lanes" is well written on the wall.
@@williardbillmore5713 itt may not be illegal but it is plain dumb and stupid when you're not only risking your life, but others, when all you had to do was let them by if you want to be a slow fuck. It's not legal but people are speeding more and more whether you like it or not and its more dangerous when you refuse to follow the flow of traffic.
@@Hehehehehe2022 I don't camp anywhere, Dude. I drive the maximum speed limit in the lane designed for the maximum speed. If you don't like it then it must suck to be you, slow it down, speed hog.
All four lanes seem to be going in the same direction, I would be going on the far right lane if I'm not passing other cars. Greetings from Switzerland. :)
People camp in the left lane in the U.S. because they don't want to be bothered with staying attentive to drivers merging from the right or merging right to exit. They're literally so lazy they're seeking a way to think less.
A lot can be learned from this video. #1. is most people only want in front of the left lane motorist and cannot lead, (notice they all slowed down). #2 is everybody drives like everybody else. #3 once you turn on your directional signal it's almost guaranteed motorist will race to drive beside you.
To be fair you had 2 lanes to your right too, and overtook no one. But got undertook as you too were in the wrong lane. Stay right unless overtaking. Simples.
All cars are in the wrong lanes. The rightmost lane is EMPTY. This should have some cars and also the car in the leftmost lane is either drunk, on drugs, or extremely wilful and should have his licence pulled for such behaviour.
If everyone camped in the right lane, traffic congestion would be even worse. Merging and offramps would be one giant clusterfuck.. Use some common sense.
@@okeen5265 OK, common sense says there's not always merging traffic. Keep right unless passing. Move to the middle if there is ACTUALLY any merging traffic, and then get back to the right where after they've merged. Everyone is perfectly capable of doing this at on-ramps on two-lane highways. The process is not any different when there are more than two lanes.
@@mozarth Right lane is by law the travel lane. Merging traffic must yield to through traffic. It's a courtesy to move over to let them in. It's a dick move to stay in the center lane at all times.
@@williardbillmore5713 The state of Washington requires slow traffic to be in the right most lane, REGARDLESS of your fucking speed. Slow traffic is defined as going under the flow of traffic or causing congestion by being in the wrong lane. Another one is regardless of speed limit or speed being traveled, you pull over if 5 or more cars are behind you on 2 lane one going each direction road. I have counted about 20 times going 5 to 20mph over the speed limit, passing on the right lane, only for the cop to get nice and close to the one in the left lane going 10 under and they will get pulled over, I even saw them pull over someone going the exact speed limit. In California though, I believe they go after the damn wreckless one, which is usually the one going around 80 in a 60 when everyone else is going about 50 or 70.
@@michaelarkell5437 I don't live in Washington state and when I drove through there people were speeding everywhere I went and I drove the exact speed limit in what ever lane I felt like driving in,.. Do you really think that if the Washington state police, who aren't pulling you over for speeding like I know you do, are going to stop and ticket someone violating an obscure lane use statute while driving the exact speed limit? Slow traffic is defined as cars traveling slower than the maximum posted speed limit. Not slower than the fastest manic speed hog on the highway... Read the statute again , counselor... BTW I ALWAYS drive the exact maximum speed limit in the left lane and I have never been ticketed on even been given a warning for it. What cop wants to explain to a judge or magistrate why he allowed dozens of cars to speed by and he gave a ticket to someone driving the speed limit? Don't be so stupid... Ha ha ha ha ha ha No part of the traffic code was ever written, enacted or enforced just so that you can speed unabated in any lane..
@@williardbillmore5713if you want to drive the speed limit that's fine. No one is forcing you to drive faster than you want. Just don't act like you own the road and actively impede hard working people. You gain absolutely nothing from prending that you are a good driver.
One of my pet peeves, as a traveling salesman I ran into this all the time. Now law enforcement is pulling people over and warning them. When you are forcing people to pass you on the right you are making them break the law by passing on the right.
No, on a four lane highway you should drive in the third lane (as you'll see trucks doing) so as not to inhibit vehicles from entering or exiting. So one more lane to the right would be fine.
True, but the _principle_ is that if there's room to the right, move over. Slowest vehicles to the right. If you want to pass one of those, move to the next lane. If the right lane clears up, move back. If not, you're good to stay in lane 2 as long as you're going faster and/or there's no room moving back. "Fill up the road from the right." This way, you'll always have the slowest vehicles to the right and the fastest to the left, which in turn means that there will be smaller differences in speed between the adjacent lanes... which in turn means less dangerous zig-zagging and less serious accidents when shit happens. It's so neat and logical that I don't understand how anyone can _not_ do it. :P
That's the asshole response. There are a litany of compelling reasons. First among them is that it is the law - ALWAYS STICK TO THE RIGHT WHEN NOT PASSING. Secondly, the passing lanes must be kept as clear as possible for emergency vehicles of all types. I once had to rush a toddler that ingested poison to the emergency room. With four way flashers on continuously, I fortunately did not get impeded by a creep like you who thinks it's there duty to force a speed limit on EVERYONE else. Along the way to the hospital I was eventually followed by a cop who never bothered stopping me or attempting to talk to me. He got his questions answered when he saw me run from the car in the E-room parking lot with a 5 year old under my arm. EDUCATE YOUR IGNORANT SELF BEFORE YOU POST HERE.
Its not a fucking matter of opinion. It is illegal to impead the flow of traffic in the left lane regardless of speed. Make your fucking pass and move to the right. By the way, those tickets are typically twice as exspensive as any speeding ticket.
Is the car being driven by a nine year old who cannot see or was the driver having some sorta spasm attack? Whoever it was seems Hellbent to cause an accident.
Was driving down by Seattle years ago and on a contractor trucks left side was painted "if you are reading this and I'm passing you, you're in the wrong fucking lane" we need more like that guy.
Years ago, I was riding with a good friend of mine, and he was stuck in the left lane. I was passenger, and I said, hey its clear over here, why dont you get over to the right. He said Im driving the speed limit, why should I? Now to be clear there are many more reasons than this, but I havent spoken to him in 30 years.
I’m glad police in my area are cracking down if your in the left lane and not passing someone your getting a ticket . They did a local news story and the people who are getting tickets are baffled that they are getting a ticket for going the speed limit in the left lane lol
The problem here is that the left lane camper doesn't know how to drive. They panicked so much and became very hesitant to switch lanes. I hope they're just new to driving and learning how to drive because if not, this really shows how badly educated American drivers are. At this point it's almost as if they hand out licenses just for going around a parking lot.
Why do people do this? Are they not aware? Do they not look around? Do they not realise? 10 cars could have went through hell to pass you, but how was this never acknowledged?
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People like that should get a $500 ticket and 6 points on their licence. For a first offence. They shoiuld suspend their licences on the spot for 7 days, and impound their cars for 7 days as well. This is the number #1 cause of road rage.
Absolutely agree but what pisses me off is when I'm driving the middle lane on a 3 lane or higher road at 5mph over the speed limit people still ride my ass.
Every lane is a passing lane except for the right lane, only the right lane is the “traveling lane”, even on a 3 lane highway the left two lanes are passing lanes. You are still obstructing traffic just as badly when you camp in the middle lane when there is plenty of room in the right lane forcing people to pass you both on the right and the left.
@Steven Seagull The law must be different from state to state. I’m just saying that the most efficient way to drive on a highway is if everybody is staying to the farthest right possible lane except for when actively passing, regardless of what the law allows. That’s how I drive anyways. I hare hanging out in the left lane or even in the middle lane when there is plenty of space in the right for me to go the speed that i feel comfortable. I feel the most relaxed and least pressured in the right lane.
There's no justification for camping in the leftmost lane, except in cases of traffic congestion. Leave that lane free except when overtaking. (That's the law in Germany, by the way, and it's strictly enforced by police and aggressively enforced by other motorists. But then they also have a much more stringent driver training and testing regime. Licenses are not cheap, because the fees pay for all that testing. But what a difference it makes on the roads!) There's some justification for leaving the rightmost lane open as well, not always, but it's an intelligent practice in cases where there are frequent on and off ramps.
Some people just don't have the aptitude to drive well, nor the awareness to know how poor their skills are. Unfortunately, driving can be an unforgiving activity, and some mistakes have big consequences.
@@williardbillmore5713 Define “speeding”. The danger starts when you are going much slower or faster than everyone else. If everyone is going at approximately the same speed and maintaining a safe following distance, then exceeding the posted speed limit by a bit is not a problem. Police acknowledge this. Technically, I have “sped” through many radar traps and not been stopped. Today’s highways were designed for higher speed limits than most of them are posted with.
@@rayopeongo Speeding is exceeding the maximum posted legal speed on any roadway. That you drove through a "speed trap' exceeding the speed limit without getting stopped by police is not an indication that exceeding the speed limit is now legal, as you have imagined. It is an indication that the policing of the highways is stretched so thin that police are given some discretion to only ticket the WORST offenders. You are still an offender and a law breaker, you are just not among the worst right now or that day. Law enforcement only acknowledge that there aren't enough of them to do their jobs properly. On "today's highways" the laws of physics still applies and higher speeds will always be accompanied by higher accident rates and higher death rates. The NTSB studies on this subject shows that statistically if you drive 75 mph on a 65 mph highway you effectively DOUBLE your odds of being involved in a FATAL CAR ACCIDENT, and the odds double for every 10 mph you increase your speeding. When a modern highway is designed for 75 mph, and the area traffic interchanges safely allow for it they are posted at 75 mph. Don't be so stupid.
@@williardbillmore5713 “Don't be so stupid.” What I think is stupid is cruising along at the posted speed limit of 60 mph, on a highway that when it opened had a speed limit of 70 mph, and when the vast majority of the other vehicles on the road are travelling at 70 to 75 mph. You are effectively a rolling road block. If you are in the right lane in a large vehicle like a transport truck, everyone can see you from miles away, knows that you will be slower than average, and has time to plan accordingly to get around you. If you are driving a Toyota Camry or other smaller vehicle, you will be an unpleasant surprise for everyone coming up behind you, causing unnecessary braking and lane changes, especially if you aren’t in the right lane. The major highways around here were designed and built in the 50’s and 60’s, with a speed limit of 70 mph when they opened. Then the speed limits were dropped down to 60 mph in response to the oil crisis in the 1970’s, and stayed there. Some of them have had their limit recently boosted up to 65 mph in rural areas outside the cities. Modern cars are orders of magnitude better in every way than the cars from 50 years ago: more efficient, safer, better handling, etc., etc., etc. and can easily handle the original design speeds of the highways. Some of the newer highways have long, looping ramps at interchanges that allow you to maintain your 65+ mph speed from one highway to the next without your passengers even noticing. The majority of the drivers in my area are like me, and drive at the old, pre-oil crisis speed limits, the ones that the roads were originally designed for: 35 in a 30 zone, 50 in a 40 zone, 60 in a 50 zone, 65 in a 55 zone, and 75 in a 60 zone. I drive at those speeds, and haven’t had a ticket in decades, despite passing through dozens of radar traps. The cops drive at those speeds as well. Of course, those are in “perfect” conditions: clear day; clear, dry road; good visibility; etc. I slow down as required when conditions are less than optimal, and I have no problem with the cops locking up the idiots who drive like they are extras in the Fast and the Furious. I think it is much safer to “go with the flow”, which is easily within the capability of the vehicle and the highway, rather than be the one guy out there unnecessarily driving 20% slower than almost every other vehicle on the road.
@@rayopeongo When the gasoline shortages of the late 60s and early 70s prompted Nixon to create the 55 mph national speed limit, safety experts were surprised and delighted to find that accident and fatality rates dropped many times more significantly than any of them could have predicted, prompting more studies into the relationship between speed limits and highway death rates. The NTSB in particular found that when laid out in a cost / benefit odds relationship, their statistics proved that for every 10 mph the speed increased, the odds of being involved in a FATAL accident DOUBLED and it was exponential . That is to say that a 20 mph increase made the odds of being involved in a FATAL accident go up four times. No one anticipated anything near those numbers before the oil crisis. Once OPEC collapsed and oil prices normalized it was left up to the states and local governments to bring back the good ole' crazy speeds we loved so much in the 60s. But politicians were very hesitant to put their names on legislation that would raise the speed limit once statistical evidence proved that by signing such regressive laws they would assuredly be killing many thousands or possibly millions of their own voting constituencies. Insurance lobbies were and remain a big part of that hesitancy to regress to higher speed limits because as the accident rates went down with the national speed limit, their bottom line skyrocketed into the uncharted reaches of the stratosphere .They became extremely wealthy when Americans stopped wrecking their cars and filing claims... so the high pressures of the insurance lobbies on legislatures kept the speed limits lower and the highways safer.... This whole scenario was exasperated by the popularity of SUVs in the 90s and their higher centers of gravity that made roll over wrecks at higher speeds ten times more common than they were in the smaller, lower car 60s. So it is what it is, and we know a lot more about speed and safety and highway deaths than we ever did. That is why speed limits will never be what they once were, Ray. So until I start seeing highway department signs on the highways saying that the left lane is for speeding cars only and law abiding drivers must keep right, I will continue to drive the exact posted speed limit in whatever lane I choose and it won't be the beat up pot-holed truck lane. Your argument isn't with law enforcement, the highway departments, the courts, or with me . I suggest if you really want much higher speed limits that you write your congressman, your state representatives and your insurance company and let them know that your need to speed is so great that you are willing to double or quadruple your odds of dying on the highway and that you are willing to double or quadruple your car insurance premiums.
A New York judge announced that he would not convict drivers for blocking speeding traffic, People v. Ilieveski, 175 Misc. 2d 943; 670 N.Y.S.2d 1004 (Monroe County N.Y. Most if not all traffic court judges feel exactly the same way. Since speeding cars are not lawfully driving, any traffic impeding them will not be prosecuted. His ruling: "I cannot believe that the Legislature, when adopting Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1120 (b), intended that drivers travelling at a legal rate be punished for failing to clear the passing lane to make room for those exceeding the limit. I find that subdivision (b)'s mandate that "any vehicle, proceeding at less than the normal speed of traffic at the time and place and under the conditions then existing be driven in the right-hand lane" must be interpreted to mean "any vehicle proceeding at less than the normal speed of traffic * * * up to the applicable speed limit". How about that, speed hogs? If you are speeding you do not even count as "normal traffic". Law abiding drivers do not have to accomodate any speeders by clearing the left lane if they are maintaining the maximum speed limit. "Slower traffic" does not mean , slower than the fastest maniac speed hog on the road ... It means slower than the maximum posted speed limit.
@@williardbillmore5713 slower traffic keep right… keep right except to pass… impeding is impeding.. not up to one asshole to decide the flow of traffic
@@williardbillmore5713 Karen? Ur the asshole in the fast lane holding up traffic.. u my friend are the problem, what ur doing wrong is never the problem.. alway someone else..
Nobody overtook him from the right so he shouldn't move over. Going slow doesn't require you be in the right lane, whats required is staying out of the left most lane.
This is extremely annoying on a 4 lane highway/interstate, ESPECIALLY when the left lane moron is pacing another car in the right lane (the only other lane you can pass on). There should be a national law that prohibits blocking the passing lane by going slow.
Juan Perez There is my friend. Every state has a law that prohibits either traveling in the far left lane, going slower than traffic or not moving back over once you have passed. The problem is that some people are too ignorant or too arrogant to follow the law.
I don't know about every state but most for sure. Some laws are not as straight forward as others. Most of the states that I have researched directly state that left-lane driving, or driving in any lane other than the rightmost lane, is illegal except to pass or turn left. I will have to watch it again, but I think that every driver in this video is illegally operating their vehicle in one manner or another. The only one about to kill someone though is the one driving the white Honda.
@@1speed2racer7 Pacing is known as elephant racing in Ireland. Our trucks have speed limiters usually set to 100kph so that two trucks side by side have to spend ages on an overtake. If they can do it at all. I have often seen two trucks side by side for miles blocking our mostly 2 lane motorways and then the overtaker has to abandon the overtake attempt because their speed limiters are exactly matched.
@@1speed2racer7 Pacing is known as elephant racing in Ireland. Our trucks have speed limiters usually set to 100kph so that two trucks side by side have to spend ages on an overtake. If they can do it at all. I have often seen two trucks side by side for miles blocking our mostly 2 lane motorways and then the overtaker has to abandon the overtake attempt because their speed limiters are exactly matched.
Seems like so many of these videos start out with someone in the left lane, all alone, that shouldn’t be there. Whether they figure into the plot, or not. Where I’m from that will land you a ticket quicker than 10-over.
I’ve got an idea. Why not try staying right? No wonder roads are more congested than they need to be with drivers like you daydreaming in the left lanes.
Approximately two-thirds of all crashes in which people are killed or injured happen on roads with a speed limit of 30mph or less. And in 2018, the majority of the 456 pedestrian fatalities and 5,782 serious casualties occurred when cars exceeded that speed limit. When was the last time YOU observed the speed limit on a road where the speed limit was 30 mph or less?.
I drive the speed limit on surface streets with 30mph speed limits for two reasons. 1) It's usually either my neighborhood I live in, or the business disctrict where I work. So i don't want to hit anybody I know personally or 2) get a reputation in the area for being 'that guy' who drives wrecklessly.
Crazy because everytime this happens I beam them and they don’t even notice that Just comes to show you they really aren’t aware of wtf they are doing ..
And there you have it people in the left lane do not look at the review mirror probably doing the speed limit where everybody else wants to do greater than they’re afraid of changing lanes so they park in the left so people have to cut in front of them without a safety zone, causing brake checks, consideration and love a hard to find on our byways
I didn’t see any freak out, but I did see the reason why they stay in the left lane….because their scary ass is afraid to change lanes.. you can tell when they tried how much anxiety they gave him how terrible they were at it….then why did not stay in the right lane!?!? you get on in the right lane then stay in the right lane…. you don’t ever have to change lanes
Forcing everyone else to pass on the right is infinitely more dangerous than speeding.
That is not true. NTSB studies show that speeders are responsible for 90% of all traffic deaths.
@@williardbillmore5713 that may got more to do with horrible driving and lane discipline and manner in USA. Speeders+left lane hoggers+road rage+poor drivers+right lane overtake=dangerous. In Germany everybody go very fast and the death rate is much lower, because they don't have to overtake from the right, everybody give way to faster car behind when possible, and it makes a fast car going 180mph passing by a 60mph car a safe thing. It's idiotic to blame speeding the 'dangerous' thing, while it's more like the fault of the entire package. The only exceptional case is speeding that is over the geometric limit of the road and capability of the car and driver.
@@bokebryant3985 Physics doesn't change in Germany.
Drive faster anywhere and you are more likely to die.
@@williardbillmore5713 My point is, even with unlimited speed autobahn, Germany is able to achieve a much lower fatality rate than USA, which has conservative speed limits. The difference is, German people have good lane discipline, they always stay on the right most lane unless overtaking and give way to the faster car behind whenever possible: it leads to a better culture on the road where no one tries to get and stay into the way of other people. The manner in Germany just CAUSES LESS ACCIDENTS, because nobody is blocking others, nobody is mad, everybody is happy. In USA when you are staying on the fast lane while not passing, you are forcing people faster than you to pass you from the right, which is dangerous (and undertaking is actually banned in Germany, but it works because the Germans would not have to undertake). Yes if you crash at higher speed you are more likely to die, but if your country have good lane discipline, even the speed limit is raised significantly or removed, you would still have less crashes than having low speed limit but bad lane discipline.
You may think I take Germany as an example but it may be inappropriate because people there are not 'speeding' after all, however, people there still travel at a wide spectrum of speed, truck at around 60mph, normal cars maybe 90 to 120 mph and some faster cars maybe doing over 150 to 180mph. So the DYNAMICS still applies, you can even think of it as a place where 'speeding' is extremely severe for the analogy.
@@williardbillmore5713 That's because most traffic deaths are drunk drivers, red light runners, or maniacs going 130 mph and wrapping their car around a tree, not someone going 80 in a 65 on the highway. Stop making excuses for left lane hogs. Also you replied to every thread on this video, you're clearly one of those deranged wannabe vigilantes who try to force everyone to go exactly the speed limit by illegally and dangerously blocking the left lane. You're extremely salty that all right-thinking people find you to be a worthless and irritating moron. You don't deserve nice things.
If you're getting passed by a 94 Bronco , you are in the wrong lane
If you want to pass a car in any lane who is doing the exact speed limit , you are speeding, no matter what you are driving.
@@williardbillmore5713 yes sir. I go by the flow of traffic, so usually around 20 above or 20 below the speed limit. So the left lane usually should mean the passing lane, but I don't see a problem as long as the person is passing or if they are going a safe speed, since alot of the time people go way over the flow of traffic and nearly hit people. What I find funny is people in the left lane go over the flow of traffic even though they may not be passing, yet somehow it upsets everyone. The only time I saw someone get pulled over for being in the left lane was when they were going 60 in a 60, but the flow of traffic was around 65 to 70, I casually passed him in the right lane at around 67mph, then the cop pulled him over, my guess was he was slightly disturbing the flow of traffic so the cop probably just wanted to let him know. I hate when people go like 100mph by me in ethier lane when the speed limit is 55 to 70 and everyone is going between those, and some dickwad decides its need for speed lol.
That was a good year
@@SenorPain81 OJ took his famously slow ride/police chase in a 94 Bronco after killing Nicole and her boyfriend. I don't think he was passing anyone that morning.
@@williardbillmore5713 The juice was loose in that bronco though
If people are passing on your right, you're in the wrong lane.
in countries that drive on the right*
It’s a tollway, left lanes are ez tags and right lanes are for cash. People ride the left lanes because they have a tag.
@@Bnguyen276 Yeah, but he (or she) is "impeding the flow of traffic" which is illegal. Number one lane is for passing only.
Yamaha SR650 I live in Houston. That is beltway 8 no ez tags in the full service lanes. Gotta obey street signs. Speed limit only 60 mph those cars are always going well over the speed. She’s not speeding but going correct speed. Those other cars are going around 80 and speeding as always. In Texas you can go above no further 5 mph or no lower 5 mph. I doubt she was going under 55 mph.
@Duke Johnson it did this year. All ez lane 6 12 lanes all ez. Out towners get a warning for 2 tolls after that it’s 5 dollar a toll. It’s Houston people use to do change cause this city 20 years ago didn’t have 4 million people , we barley had a million. Houston has one of the best freeway systems out there they are one of only few cities that do quadruple stack freeways and has the best freeway with 26 lanes on i10 which is the largest in the United States.
People like this are the reason traffic exists.
Exactly, I couldn’t have said it better myself.
And I guarantee you they think they're the safest driver, and everyone around them drives crazy.
@@maxsinventions8913they absolutely do. Meanwhile they have 0 situational awareness
no, Owen...
Traffic exists because the current roadways were designed to handle a much lower volume of traffic than exists today.
That is someone who should not be allowed to drive a car. They clearly have a panic attack at the slightest driving stress, lord knows how they'd react to a real emergency...
This is a category of people I call incompetent and useless.
Love this comment
@CommunistHydra humans are incompetent. Period. Never met a person who wasn't
I call them "left lane assholes."
This is why I think everyone should be allowed to perform one PIT maneuver every calendar year.
You are a dangerous driver and you should have your license revoked.
@@williardbillmore5713 How so?
@@williardbillmore5713 it was a joke Willard.
@@jeffhaman9010 Ill bet a judge would fall off his chair laughing at your "joke".
Pit maneuvers kill.
Vehicular homicide is no "joke" asshole.
Why do you feel you are entitled to speed anywhere you want anytime you want.
Why do you feel everyone is obligated to get out of your way so you can drive as fast as you want, Karen?
Why do you feel that fantasizing about attacking people with your car is a funny joke?
Who the hell do you think you are?
@@williardbillmore5713 Why would I be in front of a judge for making a joke on YT?
Who said anything about speeding? Also, it's courteous to go the same speed as the flow of traffic.
You sound like one of the left lane assholes that I mentioned in my original post. What gives you the right to hang out in the left lane, while going slower than the flow of traffic? If you're on a highway or interstate (this doesn't always apply in metro areas when traffic is heavy), and you're not passing anyone, stay out of the left lane (also known as the passing lane).
Some states have even passed laws that make it unlawful for assholes to just hang out in the left lane. Can you believe that people would be so uncourteous that the state would have to pass a law to keep these knuckleheads in a lane that they shouldn't be in?
If we find ourselves in a post apocalyptic society, you might want to stay out of the left lane Willard/Daren (the definition of a Karen/Daren is the asshole who drives in the left lane, and could care less if they look in the rear view mirror-that's the mirror glued to your windshield- and see 10 cars behind them, and also cars are passing them on their right, because they think they're out for a Sunday drive) ;)
Sometimes they'll speed up as soon as you go pass them on the right
Yep, but when you have 1,000hp+ and straight piped exhaust, they don't stand a chance of catching you, and they get hearing damage. Win-win 😁
@@speedycpuI don't have that much horsepower but I do have a car with a single gear and instant torque so most losers don't stand a chance when they try that.
That provokes my inner PIT rage.
EXACTLY man i hate those kind of drivers. That’s why it’s great to have a fast car
That little honda isnt gonna speed up to shit
There’s clearly a magnetic force field preventing this person from changing lanes.
Dareon Anderson 😂😂😂
Why is no-one keeping right?
Keep right when not overtaking, it's as simple as that
exactly i see practically everyone in the left 2 lanes, right lanes totally open. this is human nature tho.. everyone wants to be at the front of the pack (or believe they are)
Syed Ali no all traffic keep right. It's safer for everyone no matter how fast or slow you are going and is also part of the reason why nearly every European country has safer roads than the US.
only idiot here is you. There's always someone moving faster than you and thus you need to move right because YOU are slower traffic. Also the law isn't even the same in every state and several require you to always keep right no matter how many lanes there are even when there is no one wanting to pass you. Perhaps you should look the law up before being such a moron.
Uhm.. why are you two arguing, it seems like you're saying the same thing.......
Edit: Or rather.. WERE arguing.
If you can tell someone wants to pass you, you move over
Either totally oblivious or one of those religious speed limit obeyers who thinks that they don't have to move out of the left lane when not passing.
Collin Parsons. I don't think that motivates them. They go the limit to excuse the action, but I think the motivation is actually fear.
They are afraid of merging traffic, big trucks and probably very unsure of the geometry to their right. See how the driver is very nervous trying to go right. They have plenty of room but they can't tell.
Poor skill and fear. Best that they hire an Uber.
S Tho I agree. I also believe that they have the right idea about self imposing a hard speed limit for themselves. I sure as hell don't trust them going any faster. Now if only they would cruise near the limit in the correct lane.
@@STho205 I had a road rage incident with a lady and that's exactly why she was doing it. I felt bad after yelling at her for an entire minute.
Hey, I'm a religious speed limit obeyer and a religious keeper to the right. What does that make me? ;-)
melinuxf00l doing exactly what you should be doing as a religious speed limit driver I respect that and wish everyone that had your same values . I go over the speed limit by a little and always move over back to the right asap after I’m done passing a slower person using the left lane and that’s how it should be . Only evil ppl stay slow in the left lane causing a rolling road block and there’s a special place in hell for them !
I will NEVER understand drivers that INSIST on hanging out in the left lane!! IT'S A PASSING LANE PEOPLE!!!
This is why I speed in the right lane. No traffic there. No stress
Except for the 18 wheelers in the right lane.
Exactly, everybody is in the left two lanes and the right two lanes are wide open
@@WeathermanJohnBiggs theyre easy to get around
Passed on both sides why didnt you move to the right youre part of the problem
looks like right lane is congestion free and nice to drive on
This is the lane to drive in at just abov the speed of the other cars provided you have done your homework and have an eagle eye out for traffic enforcement, (NOT easy in the US ) and can manage a 5kph increase in speed to get by the blockage and put yourself in a relatively open area of the road.
Yeah because nobody knows how to move the fuck back to the right lane when they are done passing and just camp in the left lane. Even on a 3 or more lane highway, the middle lane is just another passing lane. Anything other than the right lane is a passing lane. Also, it is dangerous and sometimes illegal to pass on the right.
Camera car is also lane hogging
True, true
This is the problem, in a nutshell. These people think that the more their world is chipped away at, the more they are right about maintaining that imaginary world. Feedback seems to have the opposite effect that it should and I have no idea how we got here.
If I get old and senile ill be the guy driving down the road with a forklift attached to the front of my truck moving people out of the left lane lol
You'd think this is a section of motorway from a country where people drive on the left hand side lol
1:05 that kind of behaviour is usually my cue to pass that person quickly. I am not haking chances by staying behind that sort of driver.
If you can get around them lol. Sometimes you can’t bc all the other lanes are full of other people who don’t know to move to the right when done passing
My guess is that they don't have insurance or license is revoked/suspended.
Well the driver of the car filming this isn't better either. Actually everyone is in the wrong lane
Problem with (majority of) American drivers is lack of consideration. The mentality is "my car, I drive how I want" but they forget that roads are public. Even in sh*thole third-world countries, drivers try to accommodate eachother. Even if somebody is driving reckless, you let them pass you because it's much better than causing an accident out of revenge, or creating roadrage, or slowing the flow of traffic.
As much as I hate people who swerve through traffic (BMW/Audi drivers), I can understand their frustration, because the roads are big enough to accommodate all the drivers, the drivers just aren't organized nor are they using the road efficiently.
Golden rule of thumb: If you don't have enough driving skill set to REV the engine to a higher RPM, please don't camp on the left lane. There are many lanes to your right to begin with for freeway training at legal speed. If you see a lot of cars cutting in front of you = "Move your slow S to the right lanes" is well written on the wall.
There is no law in the traffic codes that says that it is illegal to block a car that is speeding
@@williardbillmore5713 itt may not be illegal but it is plain dumb and stupid when you're not only risking your life, but others, when all you had to do was let them by if you want to be a slow fuck. It's not legal but people are speeding more and more whether you like it or not and its more dangerous when you refuse to follow the flow of traffic.
@@williardbillmore5713 Ight camper
@@Hehehehehe2022 I don't camp anywhere, Dude.
I drive the maximum speed limit in the lane designed for the maximum speed. If you don't like it then it must suck to be you, slow it down, speed hog.
@@williardbillmore5713 Hope a SUV goes 200 mph behind your camping car and blows it up to pieces
All four lanes seem to be going in the same direction, I would be going on the far right lane if I'm not passing other cars. Greetings from Switzerland. :)
People camp in the left lane in the U.S. because they don't want to be bothered with staying attentive to drivers merging from the right or merging right to exit. They're literally so lazy they're seeking a way to think less.
A lot can be learned from this video. #1. is most people only want in front of the left lane motorist and cannot lead, (notice they all slowed down). #2 is everybody drives like everybody else. #3 once you turn on your directional signal it's almost guaranteed motorist will race to drive beside you.
To be fair you had 2 lanes to your right too, and overtook no one. But got undertook as you too were in the wrong lane. Stay right unless overtaking. Simples.
The driver was probably like " wwaaaaahhhh why is everybody passing me when I don't want them to. Listen to me waaahhhhh"
All cars are in the wrong lanes. The rightmost lane is EMPTY. This should have some cars and also the car in the leftmost lane is either drunk, on drugs, or extremely wilful and should have his licence pulled for such behaviour.
you dont know how to drive either. You really think it'd be smart to lane change 2 lanes everytime you pass someone?
If everyone camped in the right lane, traffic congestion would be even worse. Merging and offramps would be one giant clusterfuck.. Use some common sense.
Right lane is merge lane, when there are too many entries to the highway it's best to keep it in the center lane.
@@okeen5265 OK, common sense says there's not always merging traffic. Keep right unless passing. Move to the middle if there is ACTUALLY any merging traffic, and then get back to the right where after they've merged. Everyone is perfectly capable of doing this at on-ramps on two-lane highways. The process is not any different when there are more than two lanes.
@@mozarth Right lane is by law the travel lane. Merging traffic must yield to through traffic. It's a courtesy to move over to let them in. It's a dick move to stay in the center lane at all times.
I think he forgot how to change lanes lol.
You forgot where your speedometer is.
@@williardbillmore5713 The state of Washington requires slow traffic to be in the right most lane, REGARDLESS of your fucking speed. Slow traffic is defined as going under the flow of traffic or causing congestion by being in the wrong lane. Another one is regardless of speed limit or speed being traveled, you pull over if 5 or more cars are behind you on 2 lane one going each direction road. I have counted about 20 times going 5 to 20mph over the speed limit, passing on the right lane, only for the cop to get nice and close to the one in the left lane going 10 under and they will get pulled over, I even saw them pull over someone going the exact speed limit. In California though, I believe they go after the damn wreckless one, which is usually the one going around 80 in a 60 when everyone else is going about 50 or 70.
@@michaelarkell5437 I don't live in Washington state and when I drove through there people were speeding everywhere I went and I drove the exact speed limit in what ever lane I felt like driving in,..
Do you really think that if the Washington state police, who aren't pulling you over for speeding like I know you do, are going to stop and ticket someone violating an obscure lane use statute while driving the exact speed limit?
Slow traffic is defined as cars traveling slower than the maximum posted speed limit. Not slower than the fastest manic speed hog on the highway... Read the statute again , counselor...
BTW I ALWAYS drive the exact maximum speed limit in the left lane and I have never been ticketed on even been given a warning for it.
What cop wants to explain to a judge or magistrate why he allowed dozens of cars to speed by and he gave a ticket to someone driving the speed limit?
Don't be so stupid... Ha ha ha ha ha ha
No part of the traffic code was ever written, enacted or enforced just so that you can speed unabated in any lane..
@@williardbillmore5713just fuc k off the left lane so you don't die from collision you gonna make fast drivers angry
@@williardbillmore5713if you want to drive the speed limit that's fine. No one is forcing you to drive faster than you want. Just don't act like you own the road and actively impede hard working people. You gain absolutely nothing from prending that you are a good driver.
Even the dashcam car was doing the wrong thing.
Nice, laid back jam on the stereo.
One of my pet peeves, as a traveling salesman I ran into this all the time. Now law enforcement is pulling people over and warning them. When you are forcing people to pass you on the right you are making them break the law by passing on the right.
Well, at least the music was good.
Give the slow poke a ticket.
Some people should not have a drivers license.
Thank you RUclips algorithm - 4 years later... Looks like there was a whole line of left lane campers there.
Even the camera car is camping, should be to the right two more lanes.
No, on a four lane highway you should drive in the third lane (as you'll see trucks doing) so as not to inhibit vehicles from entering or exiting. So one more lane to the right would be fine.
Left lane & almost causing an accident. Great driver
It raises the question as to why you yourself are camping in the third lane. Or something...
Peter Riis no such thing as a 3rd lane camper, good try tho
There are no laws prohibiting “camping” in any lane but the far left. In this video 1, 2 and 3 can have “campers” all day and night long.
True, but the _principle_ is that if there's room to the right, move over.
Slowest vehicles to the right. If you want to pass one of those, move to the next lane.
If the right lane clears up, move back. If not, you're good to stay in lane 2 as long as you're going faster and/or there's no room moving back.
"Fill up the road from the right."
This way, you'll always have the slowest vehicles to the right and the fastest to the left, which in turn means that there will be smaller differences in speed between the adjacent lanes... which in turn means less dangerous zig-zagging and less serious accidents when shit happens.
It's so neat and logical that I don't understand how anyone can _not_ do it. :P
ziiofswe Common sense is something that can't be thought.
That's the asshole response. There are a litany of compelling reasons. First among them is that it is the law - ALWAYS STICK TO THE RIGHT WHEN NOT PASSING. Secondly, the passing lanes must be kept as clear as possible for emergency vehicles of all types. I once had to rush a toddler that ingested poison to the emergency room. With four way flashers on continuously, I fortunately did not get impeded by a creep like you who thinks it's there duty to force a speed limit on EVERYONE else. Along the way to the hospital I was eventually followed by a cop who never bothered stopping me or attempting to talk to me. He got his questions answered when he saw me run from the car in the E-room parking lot with a 5 year old under my arm. EDUCATE YOUR IGNORANT SELF BEFORE YOU POST HERE.
Cammer is in the wrong lane, too!
People should get their licenses suspended for left lane camping pending completion of a driver's education course.
Its not a fucking matter of opinion. It is illegal to impead the flow of traffic in the left lane regardless of speed. Make your fucking pass and move to the right. By the way, those tickets are typically twice as exspensive as any speeding ticket.
This is why the sign says
"Slower Traffic Keep Right"
"Dumbells Traffic Keep Left"
I’m just trying to figure out why there’s four lanes and everybody is in the left two lanes while people in the right two lanes are flying by.
Plan B would be to give the "camper" a long loud honk for them to move over.
plan C would be to brake check him then roll coal in a golf TDI showing him volkswagen clean diesel
Is the car being driven by a nine year old who cannot see or was the driver having some sorta spasm attack? Whoever it was seems Hellbent to cause an accident.
Was driving down by Seattle years ago and on a contractor trucks left side was painted "if you are reading this and I'm passing you, you're in the wrong fucking lane" we need more like that guy.
Let's all drive in the first available left lane.
Typical honda and left lane driver.
Years ago, I was riding with a good friend of mine, and he was stuck in the left lane. I was passenger, and I said, hey its clear over here, why dont you get over to the right. He said Im driving the speed limit, why should I? Now to be clear there are many more reasons than this, but I havent spoken to him in 30 years.
Just another video of a bad driver pointing out other bad drivers
Amazing the amount of people who think just because they are doing the speed limit they aren’t in the wrong
Camping in the 3rd of 4 ain't cool either.
great sound track!
If I’d been the cammer, I would have moved a lane to the right to allow a better flow of traffic, but that’s just me🤔
I’m glad police in my area are cracking down if your in the left lane and not passing someone your getting a ticket . They did a local news story and the people who are getting tickets are baffled that they are getting a ticket for going the speed limit in the left lane lol
Just another RUclips video of a bad driver pointing out other bad drivers. If people are passing you on your right, you're on the wrong lane.
If the right lane is empty and you're not in it, you are in the wrong lane.
The problem here is that the left lane camper doesn't know how to drive. They panicked so much and became very hesitant to switch lanes. I hope they're just new to driving and learning how to drive because if not, this really shows how badly educated American drivers are. At this point it's almost as if they hand out licenses just for going around a parking lot.
Camera man should have been on the far right as well.
I see that a lot, not to that extent but they do hate to get passed.
Some people take getting passed as a personal insult and an affront to their manhood.
What's the song you are listening to?
Days of the New is the band apperantly
Why do people do this? Are they not aware? Do they not look around? Do they not realise? 10 cars could have went through hell to pass you, but how was this never acknowledged?
People like that should get a $500 ticket and 6 points on their licence. For a first offence. They shoiuld suspend their licences on the spot for 7 days, and impound their cars for 7 days as well. This is the number #1 cause of road rage.
Dazed and very confused. But still in the left lane!
his window tint would be illegal in most states
I didn't see any camper "freaking out." Fail.
1:05
Four lanes and they won’t move.
Another example of people who can't drive right ...
Vehicles are capable of never being in the way. Rude mannerless humans are not.
People like this need their licence taken off them
WTF ...how not to drive...
This one car caused all that traffic because it wants to cruise in the left lane. They should be fined heavily for that
There needs to be a federal law where it’s mandatory slow traffic keep right, traveling traffic in middle lanes, and passing traffic in the left lane
Absolutely agree but what pisses me off is when I'm driving the middle lane on a 3 lane or higher road at 5mph over the speed limit people still ride my ass.
Every lane is a passing lane except for the right lane, only the right lane is the “traveling lane”, even on a 3 lane highway the left two lanes are passing lanes. You are still obstructing traffic just as badly when you camp in the middle lane when there is plenty of room in the right lane forcing people to pass you both on the right and the left.
@Steven Seagull The law must be different from state to state. I’m just saying that the most efficient way to drive on a highway is if everybody is staying to the farthest right possible lane except for when actively passing, regardless of what the law allows. That’s how I drive anyways. I hare hanging out in the left lane or even in the middle lane when there is plenty of space in the right for me to go the speed that i feel comfortable. I feel the most relaxed and least pressured in the right lane.
There's no justification for camping in the leftmost lane, except in cases of traffic congestion. Leave that lane free except when overtaking. (That's the law in Germany, by the way, and it's strictly enforced by police and aggressively enforced by other motorists. But then they also have a much more stringent driver training and testing regime. Licenses are not cheap, because the fees pay for all that testing. But what a difference it makes on the roads!)
There's some justification for leaving the rightmost lane open as well, not always, but it's an intelligent practice in cases where there are frequent on and off ramps.
The left lane has never been designated the "speeding lane" anywhere.
this video sums up why european highways are faster and alot more safe
this is the greatest video on the internet
Some people just don't have the aptitude to drive well, nor the awareness to know how poor their skills are. Unfortunately, driving can be an unforgiving activity, and some mistakes have big consequences.
Do you believe that speeding is "driving well" Ray?
@@williardbillmore5713 Define “speeding”. The danger starts when you are going much slower or faster than everyone else. If everyone is going at approximately the same speed and maintaining a safe following distance, then exceeding the posted speed limit by a bit is not a problem. Police acknowledge this. Technically, I have “sped” through many radar traps and not been stopped. Today’s highways were designed for higher speed limits than most of them are posted with.
@@rayopeongo Speeding is exceeding the maximum posted legal speed on any roadway.
That you drove through a "speed trap' exceeding the speed limit without getting stopped by police is not an indication that exceeding the speed limit is now legal, as you have imagined. It is an indication that the policing of the highways is stretched so thin that police are given some discretion to only ticket the WORST offenders.
You are still an offender and a law breaker, you are just not among the worst right now or that day.
Law enforcement only acknowledge that there aren't enough of them to do their jobs properly. On "today's highways" the laws of physics still applies and higher speeds will always be accompanied by higher accident rates and higher death rates.
The NTSB studies on this subject shows that statistically if you drive 75 mph on a 65 mph highway you effectively DOUBLE your odds of being involved in a FATAL CAR ACCIDENT, and the odds double for every 10 mph you increase your speeding.
When a modern highway is designed for 75 mph, and the area traffic interchanges safely allow for it they are posted at 75 mph.
Don't be so stupid.
@@williardbillmore5713
“Don't be so stupid.”
What I think is stupid is cruising along at the posted speed limit of 60 mph, on a highway that when it opened had a speed limit of 70 mph, and when the vast majority of the other vehicles on the road are travelling at 70 to 75 mph. You are effectively a rolling road block. If you are in the right lane in a large vehicle like a transport truck, everyone can see you from miles away, knows that you will be slower than average, and has time to plan accordingly to get around you. If you are driving a Toyota Camry or other smaller vehicle, you will be an unpleasant surprise for everyone coming up behind you, causing unnecessary braking and lane changes, especially if you aren’t in the right lane.
The major highways around here were designed and built in the 50’s and 60’s, with a speed limit of 70 mph when they opened. Then the speed limits were dropped down to 60 mph in response to the oil crisis in the 1970’s, and stayed there. Some of them have had their limit recently boosted up to 65 mph in rural areas outside the cities. Modern cars are orders of magnitude better in every way than the cars from 50 years ago: more efficient, safer, better handling, etc., etc., etc. and can easily handle the original design speeds of the highways. Some of the newer highways have long, looping ramps at interchanges that allow you to maintain your 65+ mph speed from one highway to the next without your passengers even noticing.
The majority of the drivers in my area are like me, and drive at the old, pre-oil crisis speed limits, the ones that the roads were originally designed for: 35 in a 30 zone, 50 in a 40 zone, 60 in a 50 zone, 65 in a 55 zone, and 75 in a 60 zone. I drive at those speeds, and haven’t had a ticket in decades, despite passing through dozens of radar traps. The cops drive at those speeds as well. Of course, those are in “perfect” conditions: clear day; clear, dry road; good visibility; etc. I slow down as required when conditions are less than optimal, and I have no problem with the cops locking up the idiots who drive like they are extras in the Fast and the Furious.
I think it is much safer to “go with the flow”, which is easily within the capability of the vehicle and the highway, rather than be the one guy out there unnecessarily driving 20% slower than almost every other vehicle on the road.
@@rayopeongo When the gasoline shortages of the late 60s and early 70s prompted Nixon to create the 55 mph national speed limit, safety experts were surprised and delighted to find that accident and fatality rates dropped many times more significantly than any of them could have predicted, prompting more studies into the relationship between speed limits and highway death rates.
The NTSB in particular found that when laid out in a cost / benefit odds relationship, their statistics proved that for every 10 mph the speed increased, the odds of being involved in a FATAL accident DOUBLED and it was exponential . That is to say that a 20 mph increase made the odds of being involved in a FATAL accident go up four times.
No one anticipated anything near those numbers before the oil crisis.
Once OPEC collapsed and oil prices normalized it was left up to the states and local governments to bring back the good ole' crazy speeds we loved so much in the 60s.
But politicians were very hesitant to put their names on legislation that would raise the speed limit once statistical evidence proved that by signing such regressive laws they would assuredly be killing many thousands or possibly millions of their own voting constituencies.
Insurance lobbies were and remain a big part of that hesitancy to regress to higher speed limits because as the accident rates went down with the national speed limit, their bottom line skyrocketed into the uncharted reaches of the stratosphere .They became extremely wealthy when Americans stopped wrecking their cars and filing claims... so the high pressures of the insurance lobbies on legislatures kept the speed limits lower and the highways safer.... This whole scenario was exasperated by the popularity of SUVs in the 90s and their higher centers of gravity that made roll over wrecks at higher speeds ten times more common than they were in the smaller, lower car 60s.
So it is what it is, and we know a lot more about speed and safety and highway deaths than we ever did. That is why speed limits will never be what they once were, Ray.
So until I start seeing highway department signs on the highways saying that the left lane is for speeding cars only and law abiding drivers must keep right, I will continue to drive the exact posted speed limit in whatever lane I choose and it won't be the beat up pot-holed truck lane.
Your argument isn't with law enforcement, the highway departments, the courts, or with me . I suggest if you really want much higher speed limits that you write your congressman, your state representatives and your insurance company and let them know that your need to speed is so great that you are willing to double or quadruple your odds of dying on the highway and that you are willing to double or quadruple your car insurance premiums.
I've noticed that people who drive the speed limit in the passing lane are people who don't have auto insurance.
Aw poor little honda :c
"The entire highway should slow down for me because..."
No really, I'd like to know what they're thinking because I can't even finish the dumb joke.
I stay in the left lane cause I'm passing everybody.
Great, as long as you get over when someone tries to pass you.
What tune have you got playing? :)
Days Of The New, one of those bands that should have been HUGE
Precisely why the cops are stepping up enforcement on this, people are stupid inconsiderate
Great band.
insurance company should pull policy for making a mess outta lane changes. forcing people right!
A New York judge announced that he would not convict drivers for blocking speeding traffic, People v. Ilieveski, 175 Misc. 2d 943; 670 N.Y.S.2d 1004 (Monroe County N.Y.
Most if not all traffic court judges feel exactly the same way. Since speeding cars are not lawfully driving, any traffic impeding them will not be prosecuted.
His ruling:
"I cannot believe that the Legislature, when adopting Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1120 (b), intended that drivers travelling at a legal rate be punished for failing to clear the passing lane to make room for those exceeding the limit. I find that subdivision (b)'s mandate that "any vehicle, proceeding at less than the normal speed of traffic at the time and place and under the conditions then existing be driven in the right-hand lane" must be interpreted to mean "any vehicle proceeding at less than the normal speed of traffic * * * up to the applicable speed limit".
How about that, speed hogs?
If you are speeding you do not even count as "normal traffic".
Law abiding drivers do not have to accomodate any speeders by clearing the left lane if they are maintaining the maximum speed limit.
"Slower traffic" does not mean , slower than the fastest maniac speed hog on the road ... It means slower than the maximum posted speed limit.
The most fragile egos in the world always hog the left lane. Thats why they speed up when you go to pass them on the right.
Impeding the flow of traffic..👍👍👍
A speeding flow of traffic should be 'impeded".
@@williardbillmore5713 slower traffic keep right… keep right except to pass… impeding is impeding.. not up to one asshole to decide the flow of traffic
@@JR-ee2xj It's not up to you to tell me I am going too slow when I am going the exact maximum speed limit, Karen.
@@williardbillmore5713 I didn’t tell u where to drive.. just stated traffic laws..
@@williardbillmore5713 Karen? Ur the asshole in the fast lane holding up traffic.. u my friend are the problem, what ur doing wrong is never the problem.. alway someone else..
I mean... you should also be one lane over
Nobody overtook him from the right so he shouldn't move over. Going slow doesn't require you be in the right lane, whats required is staying out of the left most lane.
No. Three lane highways exist so people can clear the right lane for merging traffic...
This NPC needs to be reprogram.
Somehow they still didn't get the idea
This is extremely annoying on a 4 lane highway/interstate, ESPECIALLY when the left lane moron is pacing another car in the right lane (the only other lane you can pass on). There should be a national law that prohibits blocking the passing lane by going slow.
Juan Perez There is my friend. Every state has a law that prohibits either traveling in the far left lane, going slower than traffic or not moving back over once you have passed. The problem is that some people are too ignorant or too arrogant to follow the law.
I don't know about every state but most for sure. Some laws are not as straight forward as others. Most of the states that I have researched directly state that left-lane driving, or driving in any lane other than the rightmost lane, is illegal except to pass or turn left. I will have to watch it again, but I think that every driver in this video is illegally operating their vehicle in one manner or another. The only one about to kill someone though is the one driving the white Honda.
@@1speed2racer7 Pacing is known as elephant racing in Ireland. Our trucks have speed limiters usually set to 100kph so that two trucks side by side have to spend ages on an overtake. If they can do it at all. I have often seen two trucks side by side for miles blocking our mostly 2 lane motorways and then the overtaker has to abandon the overtake attempt because their speed limiters are exactly matched.
@@1speed2racer7 Pacing is known as elephant racing in Ireland. Our trucks have speed limiters usually set to 100kph so that two trucks side by side have to spend ages on an overtake. If they can do it at all. I have often seen two trucks side by side for miles blocking our mostly 2 lane motorways and then the overtaker has to abandon the overtake attempt because their speed limiters are exactly matched.
The universal law you seek is DO NOT SPEED.
Seems like so many of these videos start out with someone in the left lane, all alone, that shouldn’t be there. Whether they figure into the plot, or not. Where I’m from that will land you a ticket quicker than 10-over.
I’ve got an idea. Why not try staying right?
No wonder roads are more congested than they need to be with drivers like you daydreaming in the left lanes.
Slowpoke shouldn't have been over there to begin with.
I call them the 20%'s. One out of every 5 cars on the road is doing this, unless they have a FL tag. All FL drivers do this.
Cammer was camping too.
Approximately two-thirds of all crashes in which people are killed or injured happen on roads with a speed limit of 30mph or less. And in 2018, the majority of the 456 pedestrian fatalities and 5,782 serious casualties occurred when cars exceeded that speed limit.
When was the last time YOU observed the speed limit on a road where the speed limit was 30 mph or less?.
I drive the speed limit on surface streets with 30mph speed limits for two reasons.
1) It's usually either my neighborhood I live in, or the business disctrict where I work. So i don't want to hit anybody I know personally or
2) get a reputation in the area for being 'that guy' who drives wrecklessly.
@@SCHMALLZZZ Do you realize that you are implying that you don'y mind hitting strangers in other neighborhoods.?
You sound pretty dangerous.
Crazy because everytime this happens I beam them and they don’t even notice that
Just comes to show you they really aren’t aware of wtf they are doing ..
....and there you doing exactly the same thing, travelling at the same speed with two empty lanes to your right...the irony.
And there you have it people in the left lane do not look at the review mirror probably doing the speed limit where everybody else wants to do greater than they’re afraid of changing lanes so they park in the left so people have to cut in front of them without a safety zone, causing brake checks, consideration and love a hard to find on our byways
to be frank these middle lanes are not for cruising as well
OMG U R an idiot...
I didn’t see any freak out, but I did see the reason why they stay in the left lane….because their scary ass is afraid to change lanes.. you can tell when they tried how much anxiety they gave him how terrible they were at it….then why did not stay in the right lane!?!? you get on in the right lane then stay in the right lane…. you don’t ever have to change lanes