Reply #22: people who HAVE to drive in the left lane [View All]

you know the ones...they merge onto a 5 lane highway and immediately make like a bat out of hell to get over four lanes into the left lane so they can do 80 MPH in a 50 MPH zone...

Quick math lesson for all of those people:

commute of 30 miles (above average but hey, let's be generous).

modest speed of 60 MPH = 30 minute commute
speed of 80 MPH = 22.5 minutes for a savings of a grand total of friggin 7 and a half minutes....

7

minutes.

Speeding doesn't help you people! It doesn't help at all! When you factor in the time that is tacked on by having to switch lanes from coming up against slower drivers, the extra gas burned, traffic in general, those of you who are constantly accelerating to get up to 80MPH you don't save any time at all. SERIOUSLY. Test it out. Do you commute in the morning and time it, you'll find that the commute time is within a 5 minute margin of error no matter how damn fast you go. This scales well too. I've found it works over a 50 mile commute. All you get from speeding is the thrill of driving fast. Well if you want to do that you can go to a track! Instead you choose to endanger my damn life with stupid reckless driving that accomplishes NOTHING.

And for those of you who say "oh but im a good driver" BITE me! You are only as good a driver as the dumbest person on the road. If you are doing 80 MPH and some moron who isnt paying any attention decided to change into your lane, you doing 80 gives you a lot less time to react and as a result you are nearly killed.

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