Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site shark.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!orca!shark!tims From: tims@shark.UUCP (Tim Stoehr) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Please move over, you are tailgating me. Message-ID: <483@shark.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Feb-84 12:37:30 EST Article-I.D.: shark.483 Posted: Wed Feb 8 12:37:30 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 09:06:02 EST Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 19 Why should I have to go out of my way just to make it convenient for someone else to break the law. If someone wants to speed past me, he can do it by passing on the right, especially if he/she has the presence of mind to look far enough ahead to see me and have more than ample time to lane change. If you're going to speed, you might as well be the one to change lanes, this is no more dangerous than my doing so, and certainly less dangerous than tailgating. What are multi-lane freeways for? (3,4,5,6+ lanes) Extra lanes are available where heavy traffic occurs. Does anyone really expect everyone on the Los Angeles freeway to drive in the right hand lane except to pass? The right lane isn't big enough to support very many cars safely or unsafely. Sure, the leftmost lane should be reserved for 70+mph turds to whom pressing a gas pedal makes them feel like real tough macho types. But don't expect the rest of us to pack into the right lane and admire those to our left.