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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"?
Speed limits are maximums; in theory if someone is going 60km/h in an 80km/h, you are allowed to pass them.
You can also think of it as a common knowledge problem; if everyone knows that they're supposed to be in the left lane if they're fast, and the right lane if they're slow, it can reduce the number of accidents by simply reducing the number of lane changes (if I know I'm 'slow', I'm going to use the left lane to pass extremely slow traffic, but otherwise stay in the right; if someone knows they're 'fast', they're going to stay in the left lane, and use the right lane occasionally to pass slow traffic).
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