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From: awr@tybalt.caltech.edu (Bruce Rossiter)
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Subject: Re: CA law regarding left-lane driving
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Date: 9 Dec 87 08:27:31 GMT
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matt@oddjob.UChicago.EDU (Stop calling me Fred) writes:
>Richard Sexton, I don't believe you.  I don't have any made-up facts
>or phoney surveys of my own to wave in front of the world, but I just
>plain don't believe that what you say is true.
>
>				Matt

Well, then, you're wrong.  The first (and only!) time I got a ticket in CA,
the "friendly" judge took it upon himself to make sure I knew CA freeway
rules (since I had an out-of-state license, I expect).  In *any* lane but
the far right, you *must* make way for a car that wishes to go faster,
NO MATTER WHAT SPEED you are going.  He specifically said:  "If you are
going 80 mph, and some idiot wants to do 100 mph in that lane, you legally
must change lanes and permit him to do so.  Failure to do so is a violation
of California traffic law, and you can be cited for obstructing traffic."

Now, I doubt you'll get a ticket for it, since if there is a police officer
around, he's gonna go for the speeder. :-)  

						-Bruce

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