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Originally Posted by 742
Actual speed in the left lane is immaterial. First, a driver should only be there if they are passing. And if they are there, and faster traffic comes up behind them, they should move over. It does not matter if the driver is going 10 under or 30 over the speed limit.
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They
should. But they too often
don't.
Both of the temorary-tag "Ultimate Moving Chicane" BMWs were passing the traffic in the right lane, albeit only creeping by 1-2MPH faster. There were large open spaces directly ahead which the next 20 vehicles in the left lane -- mostly vehicles with more-or-less accurate speedometers -- could also see.
This could be one of the many reasons why BMW drivers have a PR problem. There are others, but expensive fast cars dawdling in the left lane is probably even more irritating to the hoi polloi than decrepit slow cars dawdling in the left lane.