I got in a fight with someone saying that four wheel drive and awd were useless on ice and it went on for like ten minutes before I realized he actually just had no idea how to drive on snow and ice.
I would agree that it becomes effectively useless on ice at higher speeds. A lot of people where I live seem to believe having 4wd gives them the ability to drive 80 mph on ice.
We love our half-unenforced laws. They let pigs use their own discretion in hurting poor people, and every :grillman: will tell you that they use it responsibly. After all, :grillman: isn't the one they're after
Technically Orange says that people are going faster than the speed limit, Red implies that they're going the speed limit in the left lanes and if you're slower you must stay to the right.
Yeah, as someone who mainly drives in orange or red states, the first time I heard the insistence that the left lane of a highway was for passing only confused me.
The law is that if you don’t want to be the fastest boy on the highway, you have to stick to the right lane.
This is better anyway. Left lane being for passing only is pointless if all the slow drivers are in the right lane anyway.
In half of the states
Not even half, only a quarter of states have the left lane passing only requirement. Nationwide it's the exception, not the norm.
Left lane being for passing only is pointless if all the slow drivers are in the right lane anyway.
having a dedicated passing lane dramatically improves traffic flow. It's better for everyone to be going 60 in the right lane and occasionally using the left lane to pass or exit than for everyone to be going 12 in both lanes because a third of the drivers wanted to go 70 in the left lane.
The 25 states in orange have people moving slower than the speed of traffic flow (which will be faster than the speed limit) required to stick to the right lane. That's what I meant by half the states.
Looking at that graphic, it's a not about being the fastest boy. You just have to be going the speed limit or higher.
So if I am going 62 in a 60 passing cars going 40, in seemingly almost all of the states, I absolutely don't need to slow down to 40 and get in the right lane just because some fuckstick wants to go 95. Many people act as if the left lane is a special road for fucksticks who go 95
New Jersey and the like are the best ones on here, we have signs everywhere that say "keep right except to pass". People still hardly do it but at least the thought is there.
American lane discipline laws are delightfully inconsistent from state to state. In half of the states, it is actually for when you want to be the fastest boy on the highway. The law is that if you don't want to be the fastest boy on the highway, you have to stick to the right lane.
:rat-salute: the chud in the ditch letting everyone else know it's icy
:lenin-laugh: me seeing people driving like assholes forget that 4wd doesn't mean extra stopping power
I got in a fight with someone saying that four wheel drive and awd were useless on ice and it went on for like ten minutes before I realized he actually just had no idea how to drive on snow and ice.
I would agree that it becomes effectively useless on ice at higher speeds. A lot of people where I live seem to believe having 4wd gives them the ability to drive 80 mph on ice.
Lol these red states are really funny, laws admitting people go faster than the speed limit
We love our half-unenforced laws. They let pigs use their own discretion in hurting poor people, and every :grillman: will tell you that they use it responsibly. After all, :grillman: isn't the one they're after
Technically Orange says that people are going faster than the speed limit, Red implies that they're going the speed limit in the left lanes and if you're slower you must stay to the right.
Yeah, as someone who mainly drives in orange or red states, the first time I heard the insistence that the left lane of a highway was for passing only confused me.
This is better anyway. Left lane being for passing only is pointless if all the slow drivers are in the right lane anyway.
Not even half, only a quarter of states have the left lane passing only requirement. Nationwide it's the exception, not the norm.
having a dedicated passing lane dramatically improves traffic flow. It's better for everyone to be going 60 in the right lane and occasionally using the left lane to pass or exit than for everyone to be going 12 in both lanes because a third of the drivers wanted to go 70 in the left lane.
Plus if you want to go 90 that means you weave in and out of the passing lane which is more fun
100% That's like 2/3rds the fun of a motorcycle, and keeping the left lane open makes that joy accessible to fuccbois in hot-hatches.
I'm thinking more about longer interstate trips where the roads aren't too full. Traffic in and out of a city is entirely different.
You must not be taking your interstate trips on I 5 lol.
Nah, opposite side of the country.
The 25 states in orange have people moving slower than the speed of traffic flow (which will be faster than the speed limit) required to stick to the right lane. That's what I meant by half the states.
Looking at that graphic, it's a not about being the fastest boy. You just have to be going the speed limit or higher.
So if I am going 62 in a 60 passing cars going 40, in seemingly almost all of the states, I absolutely don't need to slow down to 40 and get in the right lane just because some fuckstick wants to go 95. Many people act as if the left lane is a special road for fucksticks who go 95
New Jersey and the like are the best ones on here, we have signs everywhere that say "keep right except to pass". People still hardly do it but at least the thought is there.
counterpoint: jughandles.
I will admit, they were a mistake.