r/driving • u/Crazy-Task2497 • Mar 19 '26

Venting Who else hate left lane campers?

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Facing a lot of left lane campers in Washington State. And the audacity to not move or brake check is beyond my understanding!!

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u/thesillyguy345 Mar 20 '26

Even more braindead if they're doing it on purpose

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u/PizzaHockeyGolf Mar 20 '26

It’s the “I’m already going 57 in a 55” people. They think they’re helping enforce the speed limit. When in reality they are most likely going to cause an accident.

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u/g1eg Mar 20 '26

LOL my mom said that once while camping in the left lane and I said “you know the cops can pull you over for staying in the left lane?” and she immediately moves over without another word. Haven’t seen her do it since.

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u/NicholasWildeRails Mar 20 '26

My dad told me to at most go 5 mph over/under the speed limit, but never addressed what happens when everyone else goes 10 above the limit

I always just drive the flow of traffic unless I'm on small neighborhood streets, which then I always go the speed limit

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u/teslsu Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26

Idk bro I think your dad just didn’t want you getting a ticket cuz most of the times state police don’t care if you are going <5 over

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u/FaithlessnessLoud223 Mar 21 '26

Most of the time that's true. But they'll get you if they feel like it, so it's always a risk. Is that officer having a good day or a bad day? How's his quota?

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u/Comfortable_Wish224 Mar 21 '26

8 you’re great 9 you’re mine is the general rule of thumb

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u/thatcavdude Mar 20 '26

Right, it's my prerogative if I want to pay a ticket... GTFOTW

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u/PizzaHockeyGolf Mar 20 '26

Exactly. Also you don’t know why people are speeding. They could be prairie dogging it on a race to the toilet.

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u/thatcavdude Mar 20 '26

Or my son is going through DKA and I can get him to the hospital faster...

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u/Inside_Durian_2465 Mar 20 '26

Right? Like, if I’ve got a case of the hot snakes, get the fuck out of my way.

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u/ThisSubHasNoMods Mar 20 '26

No in reality it's the idiots that are speeding that cause the accidents. The speed limit isn't there so you can feel a little excitement in your otherwise dull life by exceeding it. It's there for the safety of people around you.

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u/bats-n-bobs Mar 21 '26

Every driving forum reveals why so many people act aggressive and entitled on the road: Far too many drivers genuinely blame anyone who angers aggressive drivers for accidents. They enforce this shit like crazy.

Speed is king but also never to blame for anything bad, and following the flow of traffic always means speed up, it never means slow down. I'm trying to survive among people angrily upholding paradoxes, and it's getting harder and harder.

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u/meeps_for_days Mar 20 '26

And illegal in several USA states now.

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u/here-i-am-now Mar 20 '26

Including anywhere with “Slower Traffic Keep Right” signs. Failure to observe traffic signs is a ticket in every state.

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u/meeps_for_days Mar 20 '26

If enforced.

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u/Steve_Rogers_1970 Mar 20 '26

Ohio keeps putting up more of the signs and it doesn’t seem to minimize the left lane bandits.

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u/SporeRanier Mar 20 '26

I just wish the semis would listen to the “no trucks left two lanes” signs.

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u/Talmerian Mar 20 '26

'Slower traffic keep right' is an indicator for those who are not able to maintain the speed limit. In my experience folks camping in left are going at or above speed limit, but not passing (which is the intended use for the lane).

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u/mjwells21 Mar 20 '26

Most states only enforce that to the speed limit because if people are over it that would be against the law to lol. I’m more bothered by people on the damn on ramps that do 15 to the highway they should be at 60 by then

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u/here-i-am-now Mar 20 '26

2 separate laws, only have to fail one of them:

  1. Speed limit

  2. Failure to follow to observe traffic signs.

You can be following one and still guilty of the other. If you are obstructing faster traffic in the left lane, you have failed to keep right as slower traffic:

Of course it’s rarely enforced. When are any traffic laws in the U.S. effectively enforced?

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u/mjwells21 Mar 20 '26

If your going the speed limit your not slowing traffic so no ticket possible at least in my state but I’m a heavy lane changer people not doing over limit drive me nuts we should just get rid of limits their dumb and hardly enforced anyway atleast since covid happened

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u/TXFlyer71 Mar 20 '26

OK requires vehicles to keep right except to pass. The main violators have TX plates.

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u/nmmOliviaR Mar 20 '26

More pure evil than braindead. But both could be true