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Rahul Dhesi wrote:

> In <35A7EF6B.4B73AC04@ix.netcom.com> Richard Berkeley
> <bummer@ix.netcom.com> writes:
>
> >Having lived in Germany, I sure got my wish and it's very efficient over there.
> >You should go there sometimes.
>
> Efficient for those speeding in the left lane, perhaps, but not
> efficient for those who want to go at a steady speed faster than that of
> traffic in the remaining lanes.  Your ideal seems to be a world in which
> everybody either goes really fast, or really slow, and those who want to
> go at some intermediate speed must constantly change lanes.

Not really.  What I�m proposing here is a highway where slow drivers and fast
drivers can get along well.  That�s precisely my ideal - but left lane blockers are
not making this possible nor are they helping.  What if somebody�s got an emergency
and has to keep going back left then right then left or simply being on the left
passing cars then going back to the right once space permits it because there�s
always somebody who�s going considerably faster.

Germany�s fatalities are almost identical to ours per million highway miles driven.
Why?  Germans have smaller cars, big trucks that are not allowed to go above 90 km/h
by law, as well as Porsches flying at 300 km/h?  Oh, and Germany does not mandate
airbags like we do.  All of our cars have airbags, but in Germany, it's not
required.  It's driving etiquette you fail to comprehend.  You can't picture a
two-lane highway that has cars going 250 km/h, trucks doing 90 km/h and small cars
trying to pass trucks at 110 km/h.  I can because I've seen it.  It boils down to
driving etiquette - pure and simple.

> >And in several states, noticeably Nevada and New York, they do STAY on
> >the right and use the left ONLY for passing.
>
> Every vehicle in any lane is on the average passing vehicles in the
> lanes to its right.  Thus every lane is used only for passing.  There is
> nothing special about the leftmost lane.  "Passing" as an issue is a red
> herring.  The real issue is "everybody else move right so I can have a
> lane to myself".  That's not about to happen, so you might as well get
> used to it.

I never wanted �a lane to myself.�  Where did you get this from?  I just want to be
able to move and whenever I pass a car, I�ll always move back to the right.  What
real issue are you babbling about?  Nobody expects a lane here - just common
courtesy which you fail to understand.

Richard