You know, I was tempted to note (US) after the lanes. I see now that people get angry if you don’t. The logic still applies though. The first lane is for entering/exiting. The middle are for cruising, driving a steady pace near the speed limit. The inside is for passing.
If there is an open lane to the inside, the person trying to pass someone already doing a reasonable pace should be the one making the change. If there’s not, then yeah, the slower vehicle needs to go ahead and move over.
For traffic to flow safely and predictably, we should strive to do what the law prescribes, so that everyone is on the same page instead of everyone operating according to their own made up rules. The law in most places is keep right if possible, regardless of how many lanes there are.
US defaultism much?
You know, I was tempted to note (US) after the lanes. I see now that people get angry if you don’t. The logic still applies though. The first lane is for entering/exiting. The middle are for cruising, driving a steady pace near the speed limit. The inside is for passing.
If there is an open lane to the inside, the person trying to pass someone already doing a reasonable pace should be the one making the change. If there’s not, then yeah, the slower vehicle needs to go ahead and move over.
No it doesn’t outside of [parts of] the US.
For traffic to flow safely and predictably, we should strive to do what the law prescribes, so that everyone is on the same page instead of everyone operating according to their own made up rules. The law in most places is keep right if possible, regardless of how many lanes there are.