Why is it illegal to pass someone on the right on the highway in the US? In Canada if there’s a three lane highway which, in my case, isn’t very prominent, there’s really no law that enforces it, it’s more of a respect thing here on two lane highways both ways if someone is going slow in the left lane to go into the right but I’m just curious as to why it’s actually enforced in the US?
I don’t know about the US, but in Germany the right lane is for getting on and off the high way, so going very fast there might be dangerous. It also just makes things less chaotic, traffic becomes more predictable and driving less exhausting.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s not enforced in the US at all.
Just like how keeping to the right except to pass isn’t.
Nemo@midwest.social 11 months ago
These are both state-level laws and vary across the country.
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.
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”
MutilationWave@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This needs to happen way more often.
RonnieB@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s the passing lane, not the speed limit lane. Glad he got a ticket.
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.
MidRomney@lemmy.world 11 months ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZhdvl_P1Zc