dev
1d ago
- Yes
- Yes
- To the letter or lower in the city. On country roads, OK to go 5MPH to 10MPH over and up to 85MPH on open highways
- No, on highways the left lane should be going 5MPH to 10MPH faster than the lane to the right of it. Riding someone's bumper is never ok. On stroads, the left lane is for through traffic or people who need to make a left turn.
- Not sure what you mean by cut off. If you need to get in that lane and can safely do so, then you have to do what you have to do. But you shouldn't play chicken and force them to put on their brakes, better to miss your exit than to hope the other person can avoid a crash.
- No.
dev
4d ago
It's a little counter-intuitive how cars are far more likely to kill us, but we get more angry at cyclists.
I think it is because most cars are relatively well-behaved and they respect my right-of-way at crosswalks and don't try to buzz me. It's just the 0.1% that is going to blow a stop sign or not yield that might kill me.
While with bikers it is a far greater number that don't respect the rules and will buzz dangerously close to myself and my kids on the sidewalk. They probably won't kill me, but they give me a sense of rule-breaking and fear.
I don't understand the laws that say that "left lanes on highways are for passing only." So it is just illegal to be in the left lane (since anyone passing in the left lane would be breaking the speed limit laws)? Why have the left lane at all? If you have a fairly busy highway, is everyone supposed to be crowded into only two lanes? Is the idea that once traffic becomes so congested on the middle lanes that the speed is below the limit, then people can move into the left-lane to "pass" at a higher speed? But then are cars supposed to be weaving back into the middle lane after they overtake a car, then back into the left lane to pass, then back into the middle lane, etc, so they are not "cruising" in the left lane? Or is the whole thing just a way of saying, " yeah we know the speed limit is fake and we don't want slow pokes driving the speed limit in the left lane"?
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