From: utzoo!decvax!microsof!uw-beave!furuta Newsgroups: net.flame Title: Re: Left-lane road hogs Article-I.D.: uw-beave.371 Posted: Wed Feb 23 11:31:55 1983 Received: Fri Feb 25 01:46:21 1983 References: dciem.190 Speaking of passing on the right: In the State of Washington it is *legal* (yes legal) to pass another motorist to the right if the road is wide enough to allow it (you can't drive onto the shoulder--at least there is some sense in this state). If you don't think it's safe for people to pass to the right on the freeway in their well marked lanes, try it on a city street sometime. One quite good reason for not using the right lanes on California freeways is that the trucks are required to stay right so the right-most lanes are horridly torn up. It's also common courtesy, in city freeway driving, to try and stay out of the right lane to allow oncoming cars the opportunity to merge and exiting cars the opportunity to leave. Sure, everyone should try to keep up with the flow of traffic, but I'm sure that those whom you zoom up on, view you as being every bit as detestable, dangerous, and expensive, as you them. Washington State, by the way, has the reputation of being a place where you find four lane highways with four people driving abreast at 55 mph. It's interesting to watch the antics of transplanted California and east coast drivers when they encounter this.