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Re: The REAL REASON PEOPLE SPEED!



In article <40f01g$nkp@bug.rahul.net>, Rahul Dhesi  <dhesi@rahul.net> wrote:
>In <leobDD4I95.LG7@netcom.com> leob@netcom.com (Between 408 and 510...) writes:
>
>>To 'pass' a car you have to be behind it in the same lane,
>>then change lane, actually pass the car, and (optionally) return to
>>the original lane.
>
>So if I understand correctly, if you have recently changed lanes
>towards the right, then you are not permitted to speed up to the normal
>flow of traffic in your new lane, should such flow of traffic happen to
>be faster than the one in the lane on the left?  But it's ok to change
>lanes towards the right and then remain driving slowly, and holding up
>others behind you, so long as you are no faster than the lane you just
>left?
>
>It still makes no sense to me.

Excellent point. And I've also never seen a satisfactory explanation
for why passing on the right is wrong in the first place. _Being_
passed on the right is most certainly wrong.


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