🚀 go-pugleaf

I hate to burst your bubble, but your proposal doesn't work in practical
application.  No one is telling you to "squeeze into the right lane" if
there isn't room.  If you have to pass, get into the left lane and pass
until there are no more cars to pass....then get to the right.  In the
course of passing, if someone is on your butt, get to the right and let
them pass, then resume your own passing.  The trick here is that everyone
passes on the LEFT!

I've driven in other countries where the driving laws and conventions are
somewhat or largely optional.  The scenario your describing is very much
what is currently practiced in Puerto Rico today.  Traffic down there is
nuts and dangerous.  Everyone drives as fast or slow as they want and
everyone is weaving back and forth at will.  Did I tell you about the guy I
saw who's brains were painted on the road?

Look, the law is there for a reason.  It makes sense and it adds to the
general safety.  The USA has some of the best drivers in the world and an
outstanding safety record when you consider the number of drivers on the
road and the number of miles driven.  Get with the program.  Don't kill me
or my family so you can practice a little civil disobedience.  Go to a
protest march or write a letter to your congressman if you have a bug up
your butt.


> 
> An ideal distribution of traffic is when all lanes are in use, with
> vehicles evenly spaced apart and with slower traffic to the right and
> faster traffic to the left.  No lane is left unused and wasted.  No lane
> changes are needed except to enter and leave the highway.  No special
> "passing" manouvers are needed:  Traffic in each lane is automatically
> passing traffic in the ajacent lane to its right.
> 
> STTRF prevents this sort of efficient and safe use of highways.
> -- 
> Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@spams.r.us.com>
> a2i communications, a quality ISP
>     "Any idiot can avoid automobile accidents that are his own fault.  It
>      takes skill to avoid accidents that are the *other* person's fault."
>