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I can't begin to describe how much I disagree with this. The speed limit is the limit to how fast you are legally allowed to drive. No lane legally enables you to go faster. The attitudes normalizing speeding are stupid. You're not entitled to go dangerous speeds.
Did you miss the part where they specifically stated they wanted to break the law?
This is exactly why I think it should be called " the passing lane" because, reasonably, people can argue that if they are going the speed limit they have full right to "the fast lane."
The passing lane gives everyone reasonable access to it. You drive 10 under, but stuck behind someone who is 15 under? Yup you have access to it because you shouldnt have to go slow.
You want to go 5 over? Well, someone else might want to go 10 over. So you stay out of the lane so they can pass.
But in the end it's not up to you to decide whether they are going too fast or now. It's the passing lane and if you aren't currently passing, get out of it.
I am certainly aware that diving at dangerous speeds is stupid, which is why I am keeping my speed to a safe 10 over the limit.
Y'all are really arguing that driving 10 over the speed limit, which is illegal in every single United State is less illegal than staying in the left lane and it's such a strange modern attitude.
No ur strange
It's the left lane actually, it really is the law here.
Counterpoint. This isn't the law everywhere, and also lots of the laws codifying a left lane as a passing / fast lane happened after I started driving, so from my perspective they're part of a new perspective on it, so my values on this are grounded from a different viewpoint.
It's also escalating. I swear the last meme about this was like "if you're not going over the speed limit in the left lane fuck off. That's the crime lane" next year it'll be "if you're not going 50 over all the time fuck you." And the comments will roar in approval.