• @fishpen0
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    103 months ago

    If you aren’t passing, get the fuck out of the passing lane. I don’t care if you are going the speed limit, above the speed limit, or below the speed limit, get the fuck out of the passing lane you aren’t passing. Stop being smug that you are going the speed limit and bottlenecking traffic on your ego and follow the actual passing laws. It’s hypocritical to be all fired up about one law and violate the other.

      • ...m...
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        03 months ago

        …nothing wrong with passing slowly as long as folks merge right afterward…

        • @[email protected]
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          23 months ago

          If someone takes a really long time with it, it can cause a huge holdup which can cause issues.

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            13 months ago

            …if everyone keeps right except to pass, any holdups are only briefly intermittent while traffic as a whole flows at an optimal pace for the road capacity…

            …traffic-flow problems come from lazy drivers attempting to passively ride in a steady state rather than actively driving

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              23 months ago

              I mean passing very slowly as in taking very long time doing it. I’ve seen it, someone passing like 1km/h faster than the car they’re passing. Others will come up behind the first car, want to pass and are stuck driving slow. Not ideal.

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                13 months ago

                …sure it is; let the slow traffic pass the slower traffic and net flow is optimised…

              • @[email protected]
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                13 months ago

                1km/h is 28cm /s - they’d take about 25 seconds to pass a car. 25 seconds isn’t all that long

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                  3 months ago

                  You’re making some tight passes here and hanging really close to the other cars with those numbers. And for overtaking someone, even the 25 seconds is a while.