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This is why you shouldn’t drive slow in the left lane

Added Jan 03, 2017 •

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few months ago I took a road trip from Chicago down to New Orleans and on the way back out we were somewhere either in Tennessee or Missouri I got pulled over so my first time getting pulled over it wasn't for speeding it was because I was driving in the left lane so there are basically two types of drivers of the world can't really upset about all the people driving slowly in the left lane that's Joey Fat Bike don't drive much the truth is when drivers hang out on the left lane it makes traffic worse and more dangerous for everybody involved here's what that looks like give me a relatively slow driver scattered amongst the right left lane faster drivers have to repeatedly slow down and win back and forth changing lanes many times pass all of them so you're traveling forces them to make dangerous moves trying to pass you on the right which is more likely to cause an accident but there's a better way for the flow and that's if we only use the left lane for passing if all the slower drivers are in the right lane a faster driver can pass several at once then get back over to the right which cuts down in the total for Lane changes and eliminates the Slowdown some people argue that as long as they're going the speed limit they shouldn't have to move over but there's evidence that slowing down and changing lanes it's actually more dangerous than speed research has shown that the strongest predictor of an accident is variance from the average speed of traffic and a car going 5 miles per hour slower than the surrounding traffic has a greater chance of causing an accident than one going 5 miles per hour faster that's why every state has some law on record that restricts the use of the left lane in 29 States any car that's moving slow in the surrounding speed of traffic should be in the right lane and in 11 states the laws are stricter they say that the left lane is only for turning or passing a story how much attention to slow left lane drivers but more recently there been campaigns in places like Washington Texas and Ohio where police are actually issuing tickets to people they spot traveling lonely in the left lane rolling out this new education effort to help the public understand just what they can and they cannot do when it comes to this type of driving now it doesn't have to be this way a good example of the German Autobahn which has long stretches of road with no speed limits and a surprisingly low accident rates one reason for this German drivers are more likely to stay in the right lane for traveling and only use the left for passing cuz that shirt Norm helps keep them safe so fellow drivers I am sorry I didn't know the rules but I'm not alone and if more people understand how this works we will have much fewer traffic jams and our roads will be a lot safer to

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