Re: MFFY du jour

N8N wrote: <brevity snip>
gpsman wrote:
Drivers who have the most problems with traffic are not good drivers.

So you've never seen a driver in the fast lane pacing traffic to his
right with a half mile or more of clear road in front of him? where
it's impossible to pass on the right?

Of course I have... kinda. But I've never seen the path to the R
permanently blocked... and I didn't say I'd never seen an LLB, just
that I find them rare.

I don't keep a running tally but I believe most LLBs are *old* folks
scared to death at the way people drive and so occupy the L lane in
defense, and the *only* defense available to them...perhaps against
those who feel the proper way to enter a freeway is as fast as
possible. In the L lane they are most protected from the drivers who
operate like Scott in his video. They can only be cut-off from one
direction.

So ISTM many instances of LLBing are reactions to bad driving.
Following the typical r.a.d. logic, at least some LLBing is "caused" by
other drivers.

And you don't consider that
dangerous, or consider that to be detrimental to smooth traffic flow?

If you can't get around, in your scenerio above, it seems to me that
traffic must be flowing smoothly, just not at the higher velocity you
would prefer.

How could LLBing be dangerous? I think it could only be considered
dangerous behavior if it is dangerous in a "no traffic" situation.
After all, if it is not dangerous to operate at 85mph how could it be
dangerous to operate at lower and legal velocity?

If the guy is going the SL in the L lane (again, a practice I do not
endorse) and maintaining sufficient following distance the only danger
is created by the reactions and behaviors of other drivers, all of whom
must be in violation of the law, and none of whom have any right to
approach the LLB from behind -in the first place-.
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- gpsman

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