Important left lane driver question

[stateu1]

Let's say a guy is letting his wife drive I 40 east because he is either hungover, drunk or both. She drives in the left lane to avoid trucks, but is constantly getting passed on the right.

Does one risk the wrath of Zeus for the next 4 hours by saying something or keep his mouth shut?

 

[FactCheckerBot]

Let's say a guy is letting his wife drive I 40 east because he is either hungover, drunk or both. She drives in the left lane to avoid trucks, but is constantly getting passed on the right.

Does one risk the wrath of Zeus for the next 4 hours by saying something or keep his mouth shut?

Question:

Did this person lose sobriety or his balls?

 

[stateu1]

Both?

Question:

Did this person lose sobriety or his balls

Both? I just don't know if it's worth the fight.

 

[jethreauxdawg]

Let's say a guy is letting his wife drive I 40 east because he is either hungover, drunk or both. She drives in the left lane to avoid trucks, but is constantly getting passed on the right.

Does one risk the wrath of Zeus for the next 4 hours by saying something or keep his mouth shut?

Passenger should take a nap.

 

[stateu1]

Passenger should take a nap.

Tried. Too nervous with all the folks passing on the right.

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

Put distance between you and them, and don't worry about it.

 

[DawgsGoneWild]

Smack the person driving then make her stop for a Gatorade and fried chicken. 17 a left laner

 

[SteelCurtain74]

You may just want to keep drinking.

 

[Yeti]

Is she using cruise control?

 

[ZombieKissinger]

“I know this guy who got a ticket for driving in the left lane around here. They’re pretty strict”

 

[DerHntr]

“I know this guy who got a ticket for driving in the left lane around here. They’re pretty strict”

This is a man of experience

 

[Perd Hapley]

17 a left laner

It sounds like that’s a big part of how he got into this predicament in the first place.

 

[patdog]

Keep your mouth shut. If you know what’s good for you.

 

[horshack.sixpack]

Let's say a guy is letting his wife drive I 40 east because he is either hungover, drunk or both. She drives in the left lane to avoid trucks, but is constantly getting passed on the right.

Does one risk the wrath of Zeus for the next 4 hours by saying something or keep his mouth shut?

Tell her she’s at risk of not getting any tonight if she doesn’t get out of the left lane.

 

[Dawgbite]

Have you threatened to withhold sex unless her driving improves?

 

[leeinator]

Most trucks do the speed limit at least in the right lane. I don't mind driving slower in the right lane. Basic fact is you can drive 80 mph in the left lane on a trip and I can drive 65 in the right lane, and you'll only get to your destination a few minutes before me. And I won't be at risk for getting a $200-500 ticket, and I won't be at risk of having a serious accident because it's been proven......higher speeds are involved in more serious accidents. The main reason I wouldn't have a problem with someone speeding is for a serious issue like a medical emergency or something like that. If you have to speed going to a bowl game or a trip to the beach, then that means you didn't plan very well for your trip.

 

[patdog]

Most trucks do the speed limit at least in the right lane. I don't mind driving slower in the right lane. Basic fact is you can drive 80 mph in the left lane on a trip and I can drive 65 in the right lane, and you'll only get to your destination a few minutes before me. And I won't be at risk for getting a $200-500 ticket, and I won't be at risk of having a serious accident because it's been proven......higher speeds are involved in more serious accidents. The main reason I wouldn't have a problem with someone speeding is for a serious issue like a medical emergency or something like that. If you have to speed going to a bowl game or a trip to the beach, then that means you didn't plan very well for your trip.

If the destination is 250 miles, I’ll get there 45 minutes before you.

 

[leeinator]

If the destination is 250 miles, I’ll get there 45 minutes before you.

That's not much and certainly not worth it. Plus, you get very poor gas mileage to boot.

 

[Bulldog Bruce]

Most trucks do the speed limit at least in the right lane. I don't mind driving slower in the right lane. Basic fact is you can drive 80 mph in the left lane on a trip and I can drive 65 in the right lane, and you'll only get to your destination a few minutes before me. And I won't be at risk for getting a $200-500 ticket, and I won't be at risk of having a serious accident because it's been proven......higher speeds are involved in more serious accidents. The main reason I wouldn't have a problem with someone speeding is for a serious issue like a medical emergency or something like that. If you have to speed going to a bowl game or a trip to the beach, then that means you didn't plan very well for your trip.

Let's do the math. If we are going 1000 miles I get there in 12 hours and 30 minutes of driving. You get there in 15 hours and 23 minutes of driving. Not a few minutes later.

 

[msualohadog]

My son and daughter-in-law have an ongoing feud about this. She gets severely car sick and has to drive (legit sick, not headcase sick). He is doing the Lords work constantly telling her to move over. She thinks he's an idiot and this isn't an issue. They drive in the left lane everywhere they go and will do so as long as they are married...

 

[Villagedawg]

How pointy are her elbows?

 

[skip dog]

be it rules of the road, law, or just general decency w/ respect to others (aka don't be selfish).....tell her *** to move over.

 

[thatsbaseball]

There is no safe way to drive on I-40 .

 

[GloryDawg]

Go buy a Tesla self-driving car. Just have your wife sit in the driver's seat.

 

[QuadrupleOption]

"Hey honey, a lot of these folks around here drive like maniacs on crack. Why don't you get over so they can put some distance between us and them before they crash and kill someone?"

 

[ckDOG]

Slight hijack:

I'm disciplined with left lane use. Use it for passing and get back over to the right when it makes sense (I'm not going to dart right back over if I'm passing again shortly). Have I spaced out before and and slowed someone down before? Sure. I'll get back to the right and give a wave. All good.

With that said, which of you *** holes thinks it's your prerogative to cut people off in a line of left lane drivers passing in a group? I get that the line doesn't move as fast as you'd like it - it annoys me as well. But it's a group and I can't make the multiple cars in front of me who are also passing speed up by my tailgating. So don't take the safe space between me and the car in front of me as an indicator that I'm driving slower than the group and opportunity to cut me off bc you can't wait in a 17ing line.

The left lane is for passing. It's not for you getting to pick your speed. If the cars in front of you in the left lane are actively passing, you just need to be patient and let congestion do its thing. We all want to get home in one piece.

 

[msualohadog]

How pointy are her elbows?

She's actually quite pleasing to the eye. My son did well. Well enough to put up with left lane driving for the rest of his life.

 

[msualohadog]

Slight hijack:

I'm disciplined with left lane use. Use it for passing and get back over to the right when it makes sense (I'm not going to dart right back over if I'm passing again shortly). Have I spaced out before and and slowed someone down before? Sure. I'll get back to the right and give a wave. All good.

With that said, which of you *** holes thinks it's your prerogative to cut people off in a line of left lane drivers passing in a group? I get that the line doesn't move as fast as you'd like it - it annoys me as well. But it's a group and I can't make the multiple cars in front of me who are also passing speed up by my tailgating. So don't take the safe space between me and the car in front of me as an indicator that I'm driving slower than the group and opportunity to cut me off bc you can't wait in a 17ing line.

The left lane is for passing. It's not for you getting to pick your speed. If the cars in front of you in the left lane are actively passing, you just need to be patient and let congestion do its thing. We all want to get home in one piece.

The left lane is so bad in Atlanta, the right lane is the new left lane. You can pass about 10-15 cars if you're fast enough...** (only half kidding)

 

[dorndawg]

Slight hijack:

I'm disciplined with left lane use. Use it for passing and get back over to the right when it makes sense (I'm not going to dart right back over if I'm passing again shortly). Have I spaced out before and and slowed someone down before? Sure. I'll get back to the right and give a wave. All good.

With that said, which of you *** holes thinks it's your prerogative to cut people off in a line of left lane drivers passing in a group? I get that the line doesn't move as fast as you'd like it - it annoys me as well. But it's a group and I can't make the multiple cars in front of me who are also passing speed up by my tailgating. So don't take the safe space between me and the car in front of me as an indicator that I'm driving slower than the group and opportunity to cut me off bc you can't wait in a 17ing line.

The left lane is for passing. It's not for you getting to pick your speed. If the cars in front of you in the left lane are actively passing, you just need to be patient and let congestion do its thing. We all want to get home in one piece.

With the increase in adaptive cruise control, these situations seem to get more and more common. I'll find myself in a line of cars in the left making progress to pass one or more vehicles on the right, and inevitably someone decides to pass on the right and butt in. With the adaptive cruise, there's going to be at least a car length between - leaving you with the choice to either over-ride the adaptive cruise and make it hard for them to butt in, or let them and have it take marginally longer. Increasingly, I go with the let them option.

 

[ckDOG]

The left lane is so bad in Atlanta, the right lane is the new left lane. You can pass about 10-15 cars if you're fast enough...** (only half kidding)

I will pass on the right if there's a line on the left not actually passing and there's plenty of space ahead of the leader. Sometimes a line forms because we can be lemmings. Definitely not referring to that case. I had folks close to clipping bumpers on last road trip trying to skip the line.

 

[ckDOG]

With the increase in adaptive cruise control, these situations seem to get more and more common. I'll find myself in a line of cars in the left making progress to pass one or more vehicles on the right, and inevitably someone decides to pass on the right and butt in. With the adaptive cruise, there's going to be at least a car length between - leaving you with the choice to either over-ride the adaptive cruise and make it hard for them to butt in, or let them and have it take marginally longer. Increasingly, I go with the let them option.

Yep. That's why I bail on adaptive cruise when the congestion gets high. I need to be able to balance a safe distance and not invite a dickhead to cut me off. I'll decrease the space if I see someone looking like they are going to try to skip the line.

 

[leeinator]

Let's do the math. If we are going 1000 miles I get there in 12 hours and 30 minutes of driving. You get there in 15 hours and 23 minutes of driving. Not a few minutes later.

So what did you gain? Other than very poor gas mileage, high possibility of a $500 fast driving award, even higher possibility of losing control of your vehicle, wrecking, killing yourself and your family, severe wear and tear on your vehicle, and being stressed out for dodging cars and large trucks. Answer: You get checked into your hotel before I do.

 

[o_Hot Rock]

Let's do the math. If we are going 1000 miles I get there in 12 hours and 30 minutes of driving. You get there in 15 hours and 23 minutes of driving. Not a few minutes later.

no you wouldn't cause I would be flying.

 

[o_Hot Rock]

Slight hijack:

I'm disciplined with left lane use. Use it for passing and get back over to the right when it makes sense (I'm not going to dart right back over if I'm passing again shortly). Have I spaced out before and and slowed someone down before? Sure. I'll get back to the right and give a wave. All good.

With that said, which of you *** holes thinks it's your prerogative to cut people off in a line of left lane drivers passing in a group? I get that the line doesn't move as fast as you'd like it - it annoys me as well. But it's a group and I can't make the multiple cars in front of me who are also passing speed up by my tailgating. So don't take the safe space between me and the car in front of me as an indicator that I'm driving slower than the group and opportunity to cut me off bc you can't wait in a 17ing line.

The left lane is for passing. It's not for you getting to pick your speed. If the cars in front of you in the left lane are actively passing, you just need to be patient and let congestion do its thing. We all want to get home in one piece.

Agree 100%

 

[o_Hot Rock]

So what did you gain? Other than very poor gas mileage, high possibility of a $500 fast driving award, even higher possibility of losing control of your vehicle, wrecking, killing yourself and your family, severe wear and tear on your vehicle, and being stressed out for dodging cars and large trucks. Answer: You get checked into your hotel before I do.

He may not even do that if you planned well like you said. You leave earlier and get there at the same time.

 

[paindonthurt]

Both?

Both? I just don't know if it's worth the fight.

Its always worth the fight.

 

[paindonthurt]

Slight hijack:

I'm disciplined with left lane use. Use it for passing and get back over to the right when it makes sense (I'm not going to dart right back over if I'm passing again shortly). Have I spaced out before and and slowed someone down before? Sure. I'll get back to the right and give a wave. All good.

With that said, which of you *** holes thinks it's your prerogative to cut people off in a line of left lane drivers passing in a group? I get that the line doesn't move as fast as you'd like it - it annoys me as well. But it's a group and I can't make the multiple cars in front of me who are also passing speed up by my tailgating. So don't take the safe space between me and the car in front of me as an indicator that I'm driving slower than the group and opportunity to cut me off bc you can't wait in a 17ing line.

The left lane is for passing. It's not for you getting to pick your speed. If the cars in front of you in the left lane are actively passing, you just need to be patient and let congestion do its thing. We all want to get home in one piece.

Again this is the problem with left lane idiots.

The "group" is generally one dumb mother 17er in the front just cruising in the left lane.

And if you are going 73 and the guy in the right lane is going 70, it takes about 20 to 25 seconds to pass someone at a safe merging distance.

 

[paindonthurt]

So what did you gain? Other than very poor gas mileage, high possibility of a $500 fast driving award, even higher possibility of losing control of your vehicle, wrecking, killing yourself and your family, severe wear and tear on your vehicle, and being stressed out for dodging cars and large trucks. Answer: You get checked into your hotel before I do.

He gained 3 hrs. I thought he made that really clear to you in his original post.

 

[patdog]

no you wouldn't cause I would be flying.

Which can actually take just as long far too often.

 

[Bulldog Bruce]

So what did you gain? Other than very poor gas mileage, high possibility of a $500 fast driving award, even higher possibility of losing control of your vehicle, wrecking, killing yourself and your family, severe wear and tear on your vehicle, and being stressed out for dodging cars and large trucks. Answer: You get checked into your hotel before I do.

Eat, Shite, play 9 holes.


To answer specifics according to the internet it's about 20% change in mpg so not very poor, no cop is going to stop you doing 80 on a 70 mph interstate, I am most likely not going to wreck because 47 years of driving prove that, Vehicles are made to do those speeds, and by going faster you can more easily control your driving experience since you control where you go instead of trying to avoid things the other drivers are doing.