Slower traffic: keep one lane left of the right lane

Brent ) writes:
> On 2013-12-06, Dave Head > wrote:
>> On Wed, 4 Dec 2013 17:06:27 +0000 (UTC), Brent
> wrote:
>>
>>>On 2013-12-03, Dave Head > wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 6 Nov 2013 07:22:08 -0800, "Daniel W. Rouse Jr."
> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I state that slower traffic should keep one lane to the left of the right
>>>>>lane on any road with three or more lanes in one direction.
>>>>>
>>>>>The reasons are because the rightmost lane often becomes exit only or there
>>>>>is a lane reduction closing the right lane anyway. Then slower traffic has
>>>>>to merge into faster traffic anyway.
>>>>>
>>>>>Discuss.
>>>>
>>>> This is the "correct", although maybe not strictly legal to drive
>>>> these roads.
>>>
>>>it's not. It's typical american patch to treat symptoms of other
>>>problems and thus creating more problems.
>>>
>>>> Keeping totally to the right, this stuff happens:
>>>>
>>>> 1) Everyone else that merges into traffic when entering such a roadway
>>>> does so at 45 mph. You either have to brake, or move left anyway.
>>>
>>>They shouldn't be doing that. Fix this problem instead of creating
>>>another.
>
>> Yep. But the only thing I have the power to do is to not get killed
>> by it. The way to do that is to not be there - IOW, be a lane
>> over...
>
> That doesn't make it the correct way to drive, in quotes or not.
> Furthermore there are other ways to deal with it. They are lazy drivers,
> they only push as far as others will cater to them more times than not.
>
>>>> 2) If you want to move left, there is always some moron that has
>>>> caught up to you and slowed down so as to occupy your blind spot
>>>> forever. Eventually you are going to miss one of them and then not
>>>> "miss" them, and you are all going to end up into a frappin' light
>>>> pole...
>
>>>Again, another problem that should be dealt with instead of patched
>>>over.
>
>> I deal with it in the only manner I have power to.
>
> You could set your mirrors properly.
>
>>>> The right lane is for merging onto and exiting from a 3-or-more lanes
>>>> wide expressway, no matter what the (antiquated) laws say.
>
>>>No it's not for "merging and exiting". It's for driving.
>
>> Nope, not any more...
>
> I drive in the right lane much of the time.
>
>>>> Driving is about survival, not obeying laws.
>
>>>In north america it's about laziness.
>
>> You go ahead and moralize all the way to the horizon, and I'll drive
>> to survive.
>
> You're the one moralizing your own form of lazy driving.
>
>>>One lazy driver after the other
>>>creating an unworkable situation as they all try to pass the required
>>>effort of the task on to others. The merger expects others to avoid so
>>>he passes the work on to the drivers in the right lane. The drivers in
>>>the right lane don't want to do it so they cruise one lane further left
>>>passing on the effort to faster traffic.... just passing the buck,
>>>kicking the can... laziness. And people wonder why there is so much
>>>traffic congestion.



All lanes left of the right lane are for passing. If you're in them and
not passing... YOU'RE IN THE WRONG LANE!!!