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06-08-2012, 10:28 PM | #1 |
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Left land bandit bagged!
Driving home tonight, I watched a Mercury Marquis being followed by a State Police cruiser. Marquis driver went through a toll, signaled, and settled into the left lane (in light traffic) doing about 60 - 65 MPH in a 65 MPH zone. I settled into the right lane doing about the same speed. Less than a mile later, the lights went on and the Marquis got pulled over. YES! YES! YES! Hopefully that's one selfish, unaware driver educated on proper lane discipline!!
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…and justice was done!
This was one of the things that shocked me the most in the U.S. roads, how people don't give a damn to what is a fast lane and a slow lane, despite signs with inscriptions saying that slow traffic must run on the right. I'd like to see how those drivers would fare on the Autobahn or any other European highway! |
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Thai is one of my biggest pet peeves about US and Canada, specially in large cities, like Toronto where people use highways for their trips between Costco and Walmart, going 80 km/hr idiots
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Seriously, the thing that bothers me the most is tailgater on the highway. If I am doing 75 MPH on the left lane, people should just go around me if they want to pass. In Europe, there are police traps on the highway to catch drivers tailgating, we should do the same here in the US. |
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Besides the point. Age is no reason to be above the law. Left lane cruisers are selfish and completely self centered and it infuriates me lol. This is similar to the elderly person in the supermarket parking lot walking across the cross walk diagonally instead of in a straight line bc they feel entitled to make us wait. they need to be aware they are living in a society in which we all share facilities!! RANT haha I MAD
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In malaysia, even if u drives 160km/h.. There are always idiots tailgating n flashing high beam from d bak. Especially indian in my country, do all sorts of illegal things.
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Traffic or not, there are many things one can do to drive sensibly. For example the 2 second rule. I follow it religiously and made it half way around the DC Beltway in rush hour traffic without tapping my brakes once. |
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Whats the 2 second rule?
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Didn't you have driver training? We were definitely taught that in driver training. It goes like this:
Start counting when the car in front of you passes a landmark. Stop when you pass the landmark. The result better be at least 2 seconds. The nice thing about this rule is that it naturally spaces you even further back when traveling at highway speeds. That's barely enough reaction time plus whatever time it takes you to maneuver in the case the car in front of you stops or pulls some other unexpected action. |
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The left lane in CA is usually HOV. When I'm on the left lane and I'm already slightly over speed limit, I dont move over for squat. I'm not going to commit a misdemeanor just so somebody can get somewhere faster. Use the other lanes if they need to pass other people.
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2 second rule as documented in Wikipedia:
The two-second rule is a rule of thumb by which a driver may maintain a safe following distance at any speed. The rule is that a driver should ideally stay at least two seconds behind any vehicle that is directly in front of the driver's vehicle. The two-second rule is useful as it can be applied to any speed. It is equivalent to one vehicle-length for every 8 km/h (5 mph) of the current speed, but drivers can find it difficult to estimate the correct distance from the car in front, let alone to remember the stopping distances that are required for a given speed, or to compute the linear equation on the fly. The two-second rule gets around these problems, and provides a simple and common-sense way of improving road safety. The practice has been shown to dramatically reduce risk of collision, and also the severity of an accident should an accident occur. It also helps to avoid tailgating and road rage for all drivers. The risk of tailgating is largely caused by the accident avoidance time being much less than the driver reaction time. Driving instructors advocate that drivers always use the "two-second rule" regardless of speed or the type of road. During adverse weather or hazardous conditions such as black ice, it is important to maintain an even greater distance of three or four seconds. The two-second rule tells a defensive driver the minimum distance needed to reduce the risk of collision under ideal driving conditions. The allotted two-seconds is a safety buffer, to allow the following driver time to respond. To estimate the time, a driver can wait until the rear end of the vehicle in front passes any distinct and fixed point on the roadway - e.g. a road sign, mailbox, line/crack/patch in the road. However, don't take your eyes off the vehicle for more than a second or that would defeat the purpose. As you count to yourself the elapsed time in seconds, the front of your car should pass the same point no less than two seconds later. If the elapsed time is less than this, increase the distance, then repeat the method again until the time is at least 2 seconds. One can count the duration of time simply by saying "zero... one... two" but for greater accuracy, it is suggested that drivers say "only a fool breaks the two-second rule". At a normal speaking rate, this sentence takes approximately two seconds to say, and serves as a reminder to the driver of the importance of the rule itself. |
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By the way, I wouldn't encourage you to drive like that in Europe! |
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