Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site aluxe.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!houxz!houxm!mhuxl!aluxe!2141smh From: 2141smh@aluxe.UUCP (henning) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: >55 mph and legality Message-ID: <189@aluxe.UUCP> Date: Wed, 20-Jun-84 08:12:10 EDT Article-I.D.: aluxe.189 Posted: Wed Jun 20 08:12:10 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Jun-84 06:38:13 EDT References: <1615@uw-june> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Allentown, PA Lines: 9 **** **** From the keys of Steve Henning, AT&T Bell Labs, Reading, PA aluxe!2141smh In 1976 the National Highway Safety Code was changed so that it became legal for idiots to hog the left lane when they were not passing. It also became legal to pass these hogs on the right. Most states adopted some version of this code. Pennsylvania is one that did adopt it. Before '76 police would ticket the hog and the person passing on the right, which was quite effective.