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Rahul Dhesi wrote:

>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.

You will note that I said if it is possible to do so safely.  Your
post implied that you would keep a tailgater behind you no matter
what.  For me, I put my own safety first, he wants by that badly and I
can let him go, let him harass someone else.  Usually though, I let
them by and shortly traffic opens up and I end up passing them later,
as they max out at not much higher than the speed limit.  Speeding is
dangerous, after all...
-- 
Brandon

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