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Posted: 6/15/2001 2:15:19 AM EDT

someone drives in the left lane AKA "passing lane" and refuses to move right with the cruise control locked at the legal speed limit, therefore creating a potentially hazardous situation, especially when faster moving vehicles are unable to pass. In my part of NY that would be 55 mph.
What do you do when approaching such a vehicle?
[pissed]

Posted: 6/15/2001 2:43:53 AM EDT

[#1]

Pass on the right side.

I'm not trying to be a smart ass.

Posted: 6/15/2001 2:53:34 AM EDT

[#2]

There's really not much you can do without causing more problems.

Not that I'd recommend it, but I have gotten in front of them, then GRADUALLY slowed down just to make them dis-engage their cruise control just once, then went on my way. Only did that once in very light traffic and I probably wouldn't do it again.

I've since adopted the attitude, "Once they're behind me, so is the problem. No since is causing more problems. Move on."

Posted: 6/15/2001 2:56:03 AM EDT

[#3]

Oh yeah, if you got a passenger with you, you could have them use a laser pointer to swipe back and forth across their front windshield. But here again this could be even more dangerous due to the fact you might get a response that you'd rather not have!

Posted: 6/15/2001 3:16:37 AM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
Pass on the right side.

I'm not trying to be a smart ass.

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Remember I stated "especially when faster moving vehicles are unable to pass"
That would mean passing on the right is not an option...

Posted: 6/15/2001 4:01:07 AM EDT

[#5]

Pull out your AR and let it rip full auto!

Posted: 6/15/2001 4:34:41 AM EDT

[#6]

I simply daydream that I have quad fifties mounted on the front of the car and the triggers are on the steering wheel and unlimited amounts of ammo.
[heavy][heavy][heavy][heavy]

Posted: 6/15/2001 5:05:04 AM EDT

[#7]

I slow down and ride just close enough to their rear bumper that they know I want to get by. However I try to stay far enough back that it is not very dangerous. This will usually remedy the situation as soon as they can get back over into the slow lane.

Posted: 6/15/2001 5:14:30 AM EDT

[#8]

If they are going the speed limit, then how is it you have to pass? I'd wager the one creating the hazard is not the person going the legal speed limit, but rather the person speeding.

Posted: 6/15/2001 5:19:14 AM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
If they are going the speed limit, then how is it you have to pass? I'd wager the one creating the hazard is not the person going the legal speed limit, but rather the person speeding.

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So that was YOU in the left lane huh???[;)]

Posted: 6/15/2001 5:21:41 AM EDT

[#10]

The problem becomes a hazard when the traffic is flowing at 75 miles an hour in a posted 55 zone. Oddly enough the interstate high ways were designed around this speed and they use to acctually be 75 mph everywhere. After the oil embargo they only were allowed to raise them back to normal ten or more years later in less populated areas.

There's nothing wrong with driving 10 or 20 miles an hour slower that traffic just do it in the slow lane as required by addional laws and common (oops) sense.

Posted: 6/15/2001 7:21:09 PM EDT

[#11]

So that was YOU in the left lane huh???

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If you are referring to a guy who couldn't see over the wheel, had the blinker on a permanent left turn, and had a "I brake for Social Security Checks" bumper sticker, then yes, that was me![sleep]

Posted: 6/15/2001 7:48:33 PM EDT

[#12]

They get pulled-over and receive a traffic infraction here in WA. Not passing? Then get the hell out of the #1 lane.
[pissed]
CS

Posted: 6/15/2001 8:00:32 PM EDT

[#13]

I hate it when I'm in the right hand lane going 70 and someone still feels the need to tail gate me.

Posted: 6/15/2001 8:21:31 PM EDT

[#14]

I just turn on my overhead lights and wail on my siren.

Who here remembers that you actally could play "revele" in the hi-low mode on the old Federal Interceptors and PA200's ?

Posted: 6/16/2001 12:27:21 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
If they are going the speed limit, then how is it you have to pass? I'd wager the one creating the hazard is not the person going the legal speed limit, but rather the person speeding.

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Let me try to enlighten you. If the speed limit is 45 and the speed of the flow of traffic is 55 then the person doing 45, the
posted speed limit, is the hazard.

Posted: 6/16/2001 12:33:26 PM EDT

[#16]

I just gently nudge them with my truck (87 Ford F-150) if that don't work, I just push them off the side of the road and wave good-bye. [-!-!-]

Posted: 6/16/2001 12:39:33 PM EDT

[#17]

I solved this problem by installing a truck airhorn. One continious blast until they move over. That coupled with a massive bull bar would
serve you well.
If someone cuts you off, hit them. Better to nail the bastard than to hit some innocent.

Posted: 6/16/2001 4:12:57 PM EDT

[#18]

Git yourself a big rusty truck and mount push bars on bumper. People will move out of your way real quick. I used to have a problem commuting in my little 2 seater. No problem in my beater jungle truck with a lift kit. You can't get 'em loose at 55, so give 'em a NASCAR love tap.

Posted: 6/16/2001 4:50:14 PM EDT

[#19]

The only place I've ever been where the passing lane was used as it should was California. They know how to drive there. Here, it's de riguer for some jackhole in the left lane to match speed with the guy next to him in the right lane, making a rolling roadblock for anyone who wants to go faster.

Posted: 6/16/2001 4:58:44 PM EDT

[#20]

Originally posted by Avtomat

If they are going the speed limit, then how is it you have to pass? I'd wager the one creating the hazard is not the person going the legal speed limit, but rather the person speeding

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The left lane is for passing and it's not your job to enforce the speed limit. Besides, it is just rude to ride along in the left lane and to hell with everybody else. The hazard is the person obstructing the flow of the majority of traffic. This 'the speeders are the hazard' is just more brainwashed sheeple thinking.

Posted: 6/16/2001 4:59:55 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
The only place I've ever been where the passing lane was used as it should was California.

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Cause if they don't then some gangbanger in a blue bandana will blast them with a tec9.

Usually I will just get behind the person close enough that they know that I want to pass and I wait for them to get out of the way. If they just stay in the way and will not move I just get a little closer, but never closer than 12-18 inches. They usually get the idea and move the hell out of the way.

Michael

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