Fuck that, this is the asshole that rides endlessly in my blind spot.

I stay in the passing lane if I am still passing people, but my car’s radar maintains a gap at speed and I’m not going to force it dangerously close. Revving up to climb in my backseat doesn’t make the car in front of me go any faster.

Think of it this way: do you want them driving toward you or away from you?

Slow down until they do, or even pull over if it's safe to.

shoot

I use a maneuver that I call a "reverse pass." I make them pass me whether they want to or not!

Turns out, when a vehicle is traveling at highway speed, it's a lot easier to slow it down by 20 mph than it is to speed it up by 20 mph. This means it takes less distance. You can slow down in a shorter clear lane window than you can speed up.

If someone clearly wants to go faster than me but they're too chicken shit to pass, I'll force them to pass. When an opening forms, I'll quickly move to the left lane, push hard on the brakes, drop my speed down, and move back to the right lane. By the time the dumbass has even figured out what's happening, they're already in front of me. They do not get a choice in the matter.

This is my impression too. The number of times I have been held up by someone hogging the outside lane, or had to change lanes twice around someone hogging the middle, is very low compared to the number of times I've been held up by a lorry overtaking another lorry on a two-lane road (perfectly legal, happens at least a dozen times every trip on such roads) or been aggressively tailgated while I'm overtaking traffic (not legal, happens about once per such trip)

There are only 2 traffic laws in my town, apparently:

1. “it’s my turn”
2. “I wanna go fast”

The problem is everyone obeys them.

And they all get mad on the internet when you call them out on their shitty, selfish impatience.

It is, but suboptimal driving behaviour of your fellow drivers is never an excuse to consciously make road traffic even more dangerous or behave aggresively.

Because it is.

Don’t hangout in the left lane.

Going significantly slower than the rest of traffic can be dangerous in a limited number of scenarios, but not frequently enough for people to bring it up in casual conversation.

Edit: Significantly slower is like the opposite of significantly faster, being wildly different is dangerous because of how it impacts merging between lanes.

Yeah. And they rarely give a fully articulated reason why "driving too slow is dangerous". Because they know that the real reason - "it makes other people drive aggressively" - is trying to place the blame on slow drivers for the actions of actually dangerous drivers.

Of course, you should drive at an appropriate speed. But in terms of safety messaging, it's not the thing to focus on.

There's no such thing as a "fast lane". "Fast lane" implies that there's a speed fast enough to justify staying there, which is false.

It's the passing lane. You use it to pass slower traffic in the middle lane before getting back into the middle lane. If you're not passing people, you do not belong in that lane.

Your desire to go faster than the car in front does not overrule rules of safe driving. If you think it does, or if you're so impatient you are unable to think rationally in this situation, your attitude is not suitable for driving a two ton machine at 70-odd miles per hour.

The sticker is wrong. Get out of the driver's seat.

I'm in the midwest and the shit is an epidemic already, I'm not going to yuck someone's yum but there has to be a limit to what people are allowed to drive on the road, those giant trucks are so unsafe, you can barely see anything over the hood unless it's 20 ft in front of you.

Absolutely but I wonder if they appreciate the irony.