Is it only me, or do you find that more people are driving below the speed limit?

Those are just minor annoyances to us North Carolinians.

 

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Asian drivers are champions of slow driving on the left and with their faces glued to d steering wheel totally unnaware of their surroundings.
There is a well accepted reason for their behaviour....we know why they fo that...
What drives me nuts are the " its my God given right" to drive wherever the hell I want to drive.....people....and they reproduce and vote too!

 

I understand drivers that don't know enough to stay out of the left lane when going slow, the ones that bother me are drivers who intentionally left lane it to control speeders, kinda like they're saving the world from irresponsible lunatics that want to pass going over the speed limit,,,

 

I've often wondered if what they teach in Driver Training courses has changed over the years. I was taught that the left lane was for passing or getting ready for a left turn. Today, the left lane seems to be regarded an "entitlement" lane. I frequently see people get onto a freeway and get into the left lane no matter how fast they intend to travel. Of course, one benefit to the left lane is that one doesn't need to dodge vehicles rudely cutting in front of you from the freeway entrance ramp.

 

It does drive me nuts. We have signs all along the highway, keep right. The ones who do it to stop speeders. They really irk me. You are supposed to keep right. You can temporarily exceed the limit to safely get ahead of the slower car. That's why police here usually allow 10km/h's over the limit in the left lane. The US its usually 5mph over give or take. Sometimes its safer to go a little faster. We really need to teach the old some rules are made to be broken attitude, here again.

 

This is one of the reasons why I just sold my Ferrari. Second to no real place to drive and enjoy.

 

Because of all the above, I often stay on the right lane and find myself pleasantly surprised on being able to drive at 10+ mph above speed limits, exactly because most slower drivers are on the left proudly lined up like sheep. As I always say ....the rigth lane is always the fast lane both in the UK and in the US

 

Driving is definitely getting worse. I was driving the mass. pike yesterday and in a few sections you can see about a mile ahead and I was in a bottleneck of cars and when we got to a rise in the highway I could see way ahead a car in the left lane pacing the car next to it in the right lane with about a mile of empty highway in front of them. Where I live in Vt it is all 2 lane roads but they are still considered highways and the speed limit is 50. What is happening on those roads is people just cannot pick a steady speed they will accelerate from 30 to 50 then on the brakes then on the gas if I have no one in front of me I will set my cruise to 48 and just go. I used to ride motorcycles but don't think I ever would again the way people drive now.

 

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CW

 

For me, there seems to be no happy medium (or, in this case, would that be median?)

On my last few long interstate drives, there seems to be two types of drivers: those who are content to drive far below the speed limit and then those who believe 90-100 mph is a safe and prudent speed. Honestly, there seems to be no middle-ground and it's frustrating that the congestion make it nearly impossible to even use my cruise control for more than a few minutes at most.

 

As long as new drivers view driving as their right, nothing will change.

The perception has to be changed to reality, that driving is a privilege, not a right.

Banning all phone use while driving coupled with teaching new drivers how to drive manual transmissions before they go to automatics would help immensely in my opinion.

 

Agree about the right lane. Plus my perception of radar speed traps indicates that police may be targeting speeders more in the left ("fast") lane. Nobody ever speeds in the right lane- right?

 

I work for a large volume Toyota dealership as a Service Writer. Sucks to have been at the pinnacle of cars and then working here but we move on...

I spend more of my Repair Orders connecting cell phones to the in-car systems than I do solving real mechanical issues. The Kardashian Syndrome of self-importance seen with this over-connected world manifests itself in entitlement and apathy towards anything else than constant attention. Driving skills don't matter anymore. Insurance covers all mistakes and responsibility is disposable.

 

It kind scares me having a Chinese sister in law, born, raised and licensed in China. The reason it scares me, she has a license and has never driven a vehicle, never mind a car. The Canadian constitution has interpreter rights. Its supposed to be for courts. But they decided to extend that to the "DMV" here. You can get the driver handbook in 10 languages. Here is the part that bothers me. My SIL paid an "extra" fee for her license and skip the test in China. She can exchange her Chinese license for ours. The "DMV" thinks this is safe because new licenses have restrictions. Net in certain areas here, the drivers are extra scary. I almost use the horn daily.

 

In Cali the limit is 55mph for pulling trailers. I try and use my crusiecontrol towing my racecar to the track. I am never the slowest guy on the road and can rarely use my crusiecontrol for more than a few minutes at a time. Amazing! It is the people on their phones. I wish I could generate a jamming signal when I drive.

 

Ah it's terrible here. People have no idea what the passing lane is either.

 

ive noticed people intentionally driving slowly so they can read their phone messages/emails. a lot of distracted drivers out there....

 

Lighten up Francis...

That's absurd. We trade off all the time like that. Makes it easy to deliver and communicate. It's not the computers. Same as the thread. People quality and no interest in anything but their own bubble.