Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Velderan]

In South Carolina, for example, the law behind the "slow traffic keep right" signs is actually "no leftmost lane unless passing (barring congestion etc...)". So, paralleling someone in the lane to your right is in fact often illegal even if you are going the speed limit.

I wonder if that legally prevents 2 semi trucks going under the speed limit from having the slowest drag race ever as the one in the left lane seemingly goes 1 MPH faster than the guy in the right lane for a couple mile stretch of 2 lane highway until the left lane truck finally gets far enough ahead to safely move back into the right lane.

 

[Cadence]

The three places that always amaze me in terms of there not being miles of crashes on a continuous basis...

Where Chicago-land rules (left lane usually open and holy !?! how fast was that car in it going) hit northern Wisconsin ethos (I'll drive five under in the left lane if I want) somewhere around the 39-90-94 complex.

Pittsburgh, where there are apparently some drivers who learned in Chicago and still do it around blind urban curves on hills.

Route 1 in California. All I know is that if you plopped a bunch of South Carolina drivers down there the ocean would be littered with cars at the bottom of the cliffs. (SC seems to periodically have debates of how to stop cars from going across the thirty feet of grass separating one direction on the interstate from the other. Like, are trees enough, or are those too dangerous for the person who accidentally veers left off the road at speed).

 

[Cadence]

I wonder if that legally prevents 2 semi trucks going under the speed limit from having the slowest drag race ever as the one in the left lane seemingly goes 1 MPH faster than the guy in the right lane for a couple mile stretch of 2 lane highway until the left lane truck finally gets far enough ahead to safely move back into the right lane.

Legally I am not sure. In practice it sure doesn't stop it. :-(

 

[payn]

It's funny how even just traveling 1 state away can make a difference there. We drove to Mount Rushmore in June and pretty much as soon as we crossed into South Dakota from Minnesota, people would largely stick to the right lane unless they were actively passing someone. We really didn't see a lot of people hanging out in the left lane beyond that.

MN folks still are not used to it. We only had the right lane law for a few years now.