MN is passing a law to fine left lane drivers

rhagfo wrote:

CavemanCharlie wrote:

azrving wrote:

NCC-1701 wrote:
Left lane driving is extremely common and somewhat annoying. But, I'd rather they put about a $1000 fine on the huge percentage of the population that doesn't seem to know that when they come down an entrance ramp they are supposed to actually look and time themselves in instead of blindly coming down the ramp and assuming everyone can or should get out of their way. A number of times I've had drivers somehow not see my 40' motorhome and almost pull off the ramp right into me and I couldn't get over because of traffic on the other side of me. :M

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Those morons dont remember the part of the driving test that said merge smoothly. They believe you are supposed to get out of their way. They ride along side my 63 feet of rig until they are on the shoulder then drop back and accelerate the way they could have and go flying around me on the left. Unbelievable number of idiots out there.

You know you could take the cruse control off and slow done 2 MPH and let the guy merge in front of you. Courtesy goes both ways.

That doesn’t always work!
About the time you slow so do they and same with speeding up. Too many drivers don’t understand mergiging putt down an on ramp at 35 to 40 then try to get to 70 in the last
50 feet, this includes those that find themselves at the rear tires of a semi, and instead of slowing just a bit, they try to race to pass that semi.

It's incumbent upon the driver merging into traffic to do so safely. First and foremost I try to ensure they have adequate space, I will adjust my speed reasonably, and/or move over to accommodate them when I can. But absent the ability to do either of those, I let them make their own decisions. They can speed up, slow down, hit their brakes, run into the ditch, or hit me; whatever they want, I don't care. But in 48 years of driving I have never had one hit me; they have all taken one of the other choices.