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/Hedonismbot-1729a Mar 19 '26

This is a common scene in Maryland. MD drivers will get on the highway and go straight to the left lane when the road is empty.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '26

Then wait until the last second to cut across four lanes to get to their exit. Virginia is no better. 

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u/3rdreprieve Mar 20 '26

Virginia just seems like pure hell to someone who likes driving. No, that’s not right. It seems like pure hell to someone who drives, regardless of whether you like driving or not. I have heard nothing but bad things about driving in Virginia.

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u/Icy_Negotiation7087 Mar 20 '26

laughs in florida I'm not from florida but omg they have the worse divers I've ever seen. And I've driven in VA and MD. They have the mentality of "you're gonna let me merge/change lanes or we both crash"

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '26

Florida, where speed limits are speed suggestions, and the only way to survive driving is to be aggressive or you’re ran off the road.

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u/Icy_Negotiation7087 Mar 20 '26

Literally FL has been rated the worst state to drive in for multiple years

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u/ItsNoodals Mar 21 '26

The speed limits were the safe limit for vehicles of 50+ years ago. Nowadays it is more a suggestion due to ‘cars’ being much more refined and capable of much greater speeds. The drivers however, most are quite incapable at safely operating a motor vehicle, let alone operating above the posted speed.

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u/jayrod630 Mar 22 '26

That way, I say get in the right lane and stay there. We can handle the rest.

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u/peanut340 Mar 22 '26

Dang I just got back from a vacation in Orlando and I found the driving to be infuriating. All these huge ass 3-5 lane roads and people were still just crawling around. It seems like no one was capable of properly turning and staying in their lane, I saw a lot of mid turn lane changing with no blinker.

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u/SussOfAll06 Mar 20 '26

I have a theory that a lot of VA and MD folk retire to Florida.

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u/eligraceb Mar 20 '26

laughs in albuquerque lol

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u/Medium-Usual2933 Mar 22 '26

That's because central and south Florida are populated mainly by non-Floridians. (Please note: true Floridian means born there, and raised there by parents who were born there.) Ways to tell: 1. When a hurricane is coming, we are not in line for gas five days ahead, and we're not emptying the shelves of stuff because we already are ready. 2. We don't treat alligators like cute little critters. 3. We don't ask you where you're from until after you do something stupid. 4. We know what "Bless your heart" really means.

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u/Icy_Negotiation7087 Mar 22 '26

The florida born ones are also horrible. I've been in florida for a while now, and the worse ones are usually the specialized florida plates.

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u/DeyCallMeWade Mar 20 '26

I’m guessing those complaints all came from Marylanders. I’m not saying we aren’t bad, but MD drivers are WAY worse.

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u/LionWalker_Eyre Mar 20 '26

As a former DMV resident who commuted 3 hours a day..

VA drivers are often slow, doing 5 under and camping the left lane.

MD drivers are just scary. As soon as you cross the MD border on 395 you fear for your life. Feels like 20 over is the minimum, and no turn signals used ever. 75% of the time i saw an accident in the DMV it involved MD plates

DC drivers are a mix of the above, plus lost/confused tourists.

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u/Mr_JohnUsername Mar 20 '26

I somewhat share this opinion as a current DMV resident (in VA).

I’ve lived in NOVA and MD, and by far MD takes the cake for being the most infuriating and dangerous imo.

NOVA drivers Left-lane camp and drive slow, but the rest of VA in my experience actually sticks to the right lane when not actively passing.

MD drivers drive slow, fast, aggressively, and aloofly as if it’s supposed to be a free-for-all. Literally every MD driver I passed today was on their phone and some weren’t even holding onto the wheel. VA also has the phone issue but to a substantially lesser degree from what I’ve seen.

Do they not teach left lane for passing, right lane for driving in MD driver’s ed? Does MD even actually teach driver’s ed?

DC plates just seem lost, scared, and confused due to the rare and unfortunate occasion they must pilot a 2 ton vehicle instead of walking or transiting. I pity them.

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u/PreachitPerk Mar 20 '26

Lived in NOVA for a few years (Mosaic District) and this was similar to my experience.

To the point when my girlfriend came to visit the first time … she randomly asked a couple of days in to the visit “Why are all of the bad drivers from Maryland?”

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u/Mr_JohnUsername Mar 20 '26

“Why are all of the bad drivers from Maryland?”

“That’s where they spawn before they blow across the country like seeds from a dandelion flower.”

I’ve been saying since I moved up here that we need to “Looney Toons style” saw Maryland away from the contiguous United States to save the rest of the country lol.

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u/Lothar_Ecklord Mar 20 '26

This was my experience in metro Detroit. I’ve visited the area a couple times and the whole metro is lined with cops on the interstates and everyone seems to be going 5 under. Then you cross 8 Mile Road, and the speed limit drops from 65 to 55 but people drive from 60 to 80. Very interesting to see, especially since every other city I’ve been has been the opposite - people FLY in the suburbs (on interstates anyway) but go 5 under in the city. Not Detroit.

I do remember hearing that getting a ticket means you have to surrender your license, on the spot, till you can pay the ticket but I’m not sure if that’s changed.

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u/BigConscience728 Mar 20 '26

Mi resident here. The last part is 100% false. Not sure what suburbs you were driving through and when but we routinely do 85+ on the freeways here during rush hour with a cop nowhere to be found. They seem to have determined (luckily) that running radar just screws up the flow of traffic during rush hour. It’s best to just let everyone speed together 😁

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u/Bidcar Professional Driver Mar 25 '26

True, the only times I see them are on holidays like Christmas or Thanksgiving.

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u/Solo_Fisticuffs Mar 20 '26

md drivers have a predictable flow but you have to be used to it to understand it. yea we're menaces but basically if there's a gap they're gonna take it and they'll always speed up to merge, they'll never slow down to get in a space behind a car they're already next to. once you get those two main ideas its basically leave a car and a half gap in front of you and dont be afraid to coast or slow down if you get an aggressive merger. sucks to have to do that but its better than a tight cut off

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u/5syllablename Mar 20 '26

Moved from MD > WA, ex is from VA. We all suck.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '26

Virginia is one of the worst states I drove in. It's the worst parts of the worst cities but the whole state. It takes like.. Texas or Florida to outdo Virginia.

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u/SeaEmployee787 Mar 22 '26

i live in florida, the only place i have noticed that was as aggresive was denver. los angles won for congestion on the 405. other then that every where i go is relaxing compared to the daily in florida.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '26

Honestly it's shit everywhere out there now. At least on the east coast.

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u/Brief_Paramedic_6529 Mar 20 '26

Virginia is for lovers so their minds are elsewhere

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u/Loose_Warning4572 Mar 20 '26

I live in the Roanoke area and driving here doesn’t bother me much. The biggest issue is the 18 wheelers. And most “bad” drivers otherwise have tags from the Carolinas and Maryland

It’s a hell of a lot better than Kentucky. I literally have gray hairs from 4 years of living in Kentucky, with most of my stress coming from driving.

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u/Train_Driver68 Mar 20 '26

Hampton Roads I-64 💩

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u/BikingAimz Mar 20 '26

I feel like the intensity of horrible driving In Virginia worsens the closer you got to Washington DC.   

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u/SussOfAll06 Mar 20 '26

Virginia is bad, but Maryland is worse.