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In <35a1822d.36229762@news.v-wave.com> grimrod@mindless.moc (Brandon
Sommerville) writes:

>What Bob is referring to is the fact that the left lane (assuming LHD
>nations) on highways should always be treated as the passing lane,
>with the right lane being the driving lane.  When you come up on a
>faster driver, you move left, accelerate if your speeds are very
>close, complete the pass, move right and resume your cruising speed.
>There is never a reason to block a faster driver if you can safely
>move out of the way, nor should you ever.

This assumes there is sufficient room on the highway to hold all
vehicles at safe following distances while still leaving the leftmost
lane nearly empty.  It also assumes that repeated lane changes do not
increase the chances of an accident.  It also assumes (when there are
two lanes of traffic in your direction) that highway onramps are long
enough to let merging traffic easily accelerate to highway speed before
it gets on the highway, thus allowing normal highway traffic to safely
drive at a steady highway speed in the rightmost lane.

None of these three assumptions are true in most urban parts of
California.
-- 
Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@spams.r.us.com>