Comment on Passing on the right on a highway

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Nemo@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  These are both state-level laws and vary across the country.

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  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are but I’ve never seen it enforced. I’ve watched cops get stuck behind people in the left lane who aren’t passing (presumably because they’d have to exceed the speed limit to do so and there was a cop behind them) even though the law was that you couldn’t go more than a certain distance in the left lane without passing someone. This happened dozens of times.

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    • Thegods14@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I was living in Colorado a few years back as a new teenage driver and the law, which I was at the time unaware of, was indeed enforced upon me. Granted I didn’t get a ticket, but I was pulled over and handed a warning slip from the police officer.

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• TheDubz87@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That depends on how the cops feeling. A guy I used to work with got pulled over for doing the speed limit in the left lane for “impeding traffic”

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  • MutilationWave@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This needs to happen way more often.

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  • RonnieB@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s the passing lane, not the speed limit lane. Glad he got a ticket.

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    • TheDubz87@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Dude was old and drove like an ass. I used to tell him he was gonna get his driver’s license taken away and he was gonna have to drive the forklift home on the shoulder of the highway every day lol

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s a cop in Wells, Nevada that likes to drive ten under the speed limit and then pull people with out of state license plates over for “passing a cop”. So, y’know, a lot of traffic rules are arbitrary.

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    • teamevil@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s a bitch of a cop.

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    • PizzasDontWearCapes@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Passing a cop is illegal?

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Limit’s 55. I’d be doing 55. He was doing 45. He wrote 70 on the ticket. It was cheaper to pay than to travel 800 miles to contest the ticket, which had to be done in person. So yeah, he made it illegal.

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• MidRomney@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZhdvl_P1Zc

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