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Anyway, back to the topic. The law states that there is a 3 second minimum following distance. Any less than that and it's YOUR FAULT if you rear-end the car in front of you.
Tailgaters play their games and I play mine. Keep a safe distance and there is no problem.
Anyway, back to the topic. The law states that there is a 3 second minimum following distance. Any less than that and it's YOUR FAULT if you rear-end the car in front of you.
Tailgaters play their games and I play mine. Keep a safe distance and there is no problem.
There is a reason why the slower drivers are to stay to the right and faster drivers pass to the left. It is for safety. Entrance and exit ramps are to the right and those drivers are either slowing to exit or coming up to posted speed to enter. For the faster drivers to have to pass an ignorant a-hole in the right lanes actually creates unsafe driving for ALL on the road. That is why it is a LAW that the far left lane is for passing only in most states. There actually are signs posted "Slower Traffic Keep Right". It doesn't say if your going the speed limit it is acceptable to stay in the far left lane. The signs and statues also do not say that it is okay if your driving the posted speed, or you just feel like it because the guy behind you can just go around to the right. It says for the slow driver to be the one to get over. It is safer for the SLOWER driver to move over to the right and let the faster drivers go on down the road.
Like all things common sense has just flown out the window. I've been wondering if anyone actually reads the drivers handbooks anymore.
I think the very same thing reading some of the posts. At least we agree.
A guy doing 63 mph in a 55 mph zone is NOT - and I repeat for the reading impaired - NOT holding up traffic. Do you understand that? If you don't you have NO business driving.
So some bonehead, somebody I can presume by your writing drives like you do, decides to ride his bumper though he's actually going 8 mph over the speed limit. The tail-gaiter is 100% at fault at this point. Do you understand that?
It is at that point that KYJellyDad decides to give 'em the brake. It is at that point that he MIGHT have been holding up traffic. But that's based on the assumption that there were a whole bunch of people on the road following him because he was holding up traffic. And again, that would be an ASSumption.
What does it matter if you were doing 75 in a 55? If someone wants to go faster, pull over and let them.
It's their ticket, not yours.
You can't pull over if you're on a 2-lane road.
And it is NOT the responsibility of a person to pull over to let a non-emergency vehicle pass.
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