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0 pointsmikestew7mo ago0 comments

The rule in Indiana is that on a multilane highway you must move to the right to allow overtaking traffic to pass.

That's a rule just about everywhere, but that's not what's being discussed. I'm in the right lane doing the speed limit, and OP claims that's "technically" illegal due to contradictory laws. (Where there is no real contradiction, because the Chesterton's Fence is that we don't want Farmer Jones driving his tractor to his fields down I-75 through Atlanta.)

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SoftTalker7mo ago· 1 in thread

Right. What's (maybe) illegal (and definitely unsafe) is staying in the left lane, although driving at the posted speed limit, and impeding traffic that wants to pass.

mikestewOP7mo ago

Oh, as a Washington resident[0] I completely agree.

[0] The "joke" here being that WA drivers are notorious about parking in the left lane while driving 5mph under the limit.

sbuttgereit7mo ago

What does happen in that situation sometimes is that if you're speeding along with everyone else, that sometimes gets allowed as a defense against a speeding ticket; basically the argument is that if driving the speed limit when all surrounding traffic is driving over the speed limit, that the relative speed difference can matter. At least that was true when I learned to drive (many, many years ago).

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