Georgia's 'Slow Poke' bill moves step closer to reality

Not really.

Many people do not want to drive like an idiot and will keep the vehicle on cruise. It may slow some idiot down or not.

If I am in the hammer lane and running faster than the traffic in the right lane, I am not impeding traffic.

However, if I am running 75 mph, there is no reason to be ticketed for obeying the speed limit because someone wants to run 100 mph.

I have the ability to pass and pull back over legally.

Now, I may be running 75 mph and then a truck pulls over and it is running 73 mph and he is entitled as well.

It is called maturity and professionalism.

 

The logic, or, more accurately, the absence of it.

Isn't it? Common sense would suggest speeding is the major factor in creating the chaotic environment that abounds on US roadways, compromising safety and leading to congestion that would not otherwise occur naturally. Speeding and following too closely leads to "braking waves" that bring traffic to a dead stop for no apparent reason.

In the '60s no one would dream of operating as do the typical motorists of today. Enforcement was ubiquitous. Today, it is almost impossible to be ticketed for a moving violation unless you are the most oblivious motorist in any platoon of oblivious motorists. What cops are left are busy chasing drug offenses.

The problem with traffic code being implemented today is that legislators are oblivious motorists themselves, and they possess less than no qualifications to stipulate traffic code because everything they think they know is wrong, so they see the rights of the many who ignore traffic code as being of greater importance than those of the minority of law abiding motorists.

~200M licensed motorists report to police ~6.5M crashes per year*. Assume those are all crashes, then do the arithmetic. Should we assume these crashes occur to cautious motorists, or those who as a matter of habit throw caution to the wind to make up for throwing their scant education and training out the window?

*FHWA FARS database

 

I like the law. if I am in the left lane in my car, no matter my speed, if some one is behind me gaining, I will move over. the ones who think if your going the speed limit you should not have to move to let some one break the law by speeding is why the law is being considered. they do not want drivers acting like the town SHERIFF! by holding speeders to the law by blocking them in the left lane refusing to move. if any one is in the right lane & going slow, I have no problem, they are in the right lane. if someone is in the left lane & doing the limit, but I decide I want to go 2 m.p.h. faster, then get out of the way. speeders usually don't bother me, cause they get past me quick, they are gone out of sight, no bother. it's the one's tapping on their electronic devices, keeping their speed all over from 50 to 70 m.p.h. passing me, then slowing behind, then driving right next to me, back & forth like a yoyo. if your in any vehicle in the left lane & you see a vehicle in your mirrors gaining on you. just MOVE! then get back over if you want til another one is on your buttt .

 

People have to remember many of these laws have been written 50 years ago when people actually enjoyed driving and seeing the countryside. There was plenty of cars doing 10-20 miles under the speed limit. The whole passing thing was for the ones doing the speed limit. The whole purpose of the 4 lane was so they could pass slowly and safely.

Today you have the speed limit are the slow ones and the ones doing 5-10-15 over are the passers.

So should the speed limit signs!

It doesn't matter if they raised the speed limit to 100. There will always be that crowd that thinks they have to be faster and pass everyone. Nothing irks me more than to be driving within the law and come up on a slow vehicle. Yet my time to pass I get cut off by some rude speeder. It goes both ways.

 

I'm all for hammerin down, but I love this law and think it should be all 50 wide, but if it's a 70mph zone those running 70 shouldn't get ticketed.

 

Actually I am not impeding traffic, as I am doing the speed limit. The speed limit is the speed that you can lawfully drive on the road, not above or below it. Those signs "slower traffic keep right" is to tell those who are doing LESS then the speed limit to stay right, as all lanes are open to those driving the speeed limit. If you want a ticket, go for it its your money and driving record. Although as long as I am doing the speed limit, and you wish to go faster then go around. You are correct, I am not a cop, but I am a law abiding driver. As for being a "Wanna be", maybe you should be sure what my experience level is before slinging trash. But enough said.

 

It won't do a thing. They don't enforce the NO TEXTING law, or the "Don't Cut off a Truck" Law, why would they enforce this?

 

Maybe it doesn't have to be a law. I'd like it to be taken care of with sensors in new vehicles. If you are in the left lane, with a car behind you, and more that 30 yards open in front - tires slowly deflate.

And how about if a car senses driver is texting while driving, the airbag goes off automatically.

 

Maybe you don't know 30 yards is 90 feet, a reasonable and prudent following distance at 20 mph (3 seconds/29.3 fps)... in a 4-wheeler. But your perspective punctuates the fact that one person's "Left Lane Bandit" is another person's "maintaining a R&P following distance".

The issue with cops making that judgment call is they are among if not the most oblivious of oblivious motorists. I actually witnessed a cop properly signal a turn last fall. I was so surprised I almost ran a red light.