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Anyone who holds up traffic in the left lane should unironically kill themself.

this shit is so memed on reddit that it makes me want to go out and do 45 in a left lane

Slow Left Lane Drivers will be the first against the wall!!!

Meh, general left lane slowpokes have never really bothered me. The real Hitlers are semi drivers on two-lane highways.

"Hmm this other truck in front of me is going 0.5mph slower than I am. Better switch lanes and prevent everyone else from passing while I take 5 minutes to pass the other truck."

That's nowhere near as bad as the people who refuse to use their cruise control and fuck with your ability to use it.

I can kinda understand that b/c every car handles cruise control a little differently. Like, the dude in front of you has a car that takes a minute to punch it up a hill, and your cruise might be one of those newfangled adaptive cruises.

Oh no, I meant the jackasses who will fluctuate their speed wildly because they just don't use it. Like when the speed limit is 100 km/h and they're bouncing around 70 km/h - 110 km/h

Oh, like when you want to cruise in the right lane, but they're slow? So you go to pass, then they speed up, etc etc...

Oh, like when you want to cruise in the right lane, but they're slow? So you go to pass, then they speed up, etc etc...

Not exactly but I almost got killed by one of these assholes on a really small highway.

No the ones where you're in the middle lane going with the flow of traffic, then they merge in and never set the cruise control on their brand new Camry so they're really slowing down, then really speeding up and slowing down again ad infinitum.

Ah, I get it now. Yeh, I know the type.

Dumbass here, tf is cruise control?

Cruise control will maintain a constant speed. If you set it at 100 km/h it will keep your car there will very little variation.

Is it a us thing?

What do you drive? Cruise control is common in most cars these days. It's usually just a couple buttons or sometimes a little lever on or near your steering wheel that will electronically control your speed so you can take your foot off the pedal and not strain your ankle trying to maintain constant speed.

I don't, and having done a little research it appears i'm clueless because it is a us thing.

I have a good story about this. I am on an empty tollroad. Nobody there. The speed limit is 70, so I set my cruise to 75 and go on my merry way. I catch up to someone going the actual posted speed limit finally, and go to pass. No big deal. After I pass him, he slowly passes me on the right...then I pass him....then he rides on my rear quarter panel.

I HATE when people, especially on an empty highway, ride right in my blind spot. Right where, if I need to swerve for whatever reason (be it random oncoming traffic, debris in the road, or a wreck so bad that it spills over the center barrier) I will end up PITing myself. There's no reason to drive so close together where there's no other traffic. It's stupid and dangerous. It's unavoidable in traffic, but with not another soul in sight, it's reckless. So I say, "fuck this guy," and floor it to get away from him. This motherfucker floors it, too, to keep right there in my "blind spot."

Now, I drive a pretty common, basic coupe. It's a 2-door version of one of the best selling sedans in the US. Don't judge; I got it for cheap. It just so happens that this guy has an almost identical year and model that I do (he had the sedan). I'm pretty familiar with how it performs, so when I say that this guy floors his fucking car to stay next to my rear tire I mean that he actually fucking floored it when I did. I get up to 95 MPH with this fucking asshole right there next to me when I decide to slam on the brakes. Because now he's doing it on purpose and I need to get away from this lunatic. We have the same engine and transmission, so I'm not going to out accelerate him. Like I said: not a soul in sight, I slam on the brakes, and at 95 MPH, there's nobody behind me. 95 to 45 and this motherfucker slams on his brakes, too!

You might be thinking: this is some dumb kid messing with you. No. It was a 50-something Indian man in business casual in his family sedan. But for what? I've been driving on an empty highway at night when some kids rode up next to me to flip me off and speed away for no reason. I get the antics of dumb teenagers. But why would some middle aged Indian man try so hard to drive next to me that he would floor it to 95, then slam on his brakes down to 45? Maybe he was just bored, but it is so fucking bizarre. He finally fucked off when I laid on the horn and drove away. But what the fuck?

Almost the exact same thing happened to me with a RAV4. I had the cruise control set a bit higher than the speed limit and ended up overtaking the woman in the RAV4. She couldn't fucking stand that so she sped around me and then slammed on the brakes to slow me down.

Some people hate getting passed and are irrational about it.

Quit being poor and buy a car with adaptive cruise control

It was an option on mine but I didn't get it. I really regret that one.

What kind of car?

Charger

Why don't you have adaptive cruise control? Are you poor?

I got the nav system and sunroof instead but I also should have ponied up for the adaptive cruise control.

i get it, to an extent. Requiring things with that much momentum to speed up/slow down by .5mph here and there is fuel-inefficient and going to increase costs for someone who is probably not making a whole lot to start with.

It just sucks that in California, all the long-distance routes are either 1 or 2 lanes each direction.

Holy fuck, left lane cruisers are literally worse than Hitler.

Rage inducing. Wtf is wrong with people I don't have a license and I know better than that. You chill in the passing lane you're the worst kind of person, and yes, I mean more than Nazis.

Stop trying to fit in with the adults.

How's the 8th grade going?

I'll go a non outrageous speed in the left lane and if I see someone coming closer clearly going faster I'll switch and use his car as bait for the cops to catch. Everyone should be doing this.

Driving discussions on reddit are so infuriating. They're filled with obvious assholes who've glommed onto a couple pet peeves of the unwashed masses, in order to maintain the illusion that they're above them all.