Stop Blocking the Left Lane! This is a Big Problem in California!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 พ.ค. 2021
- Do left lane hogs drive you crazy? This seems to be a big problem in California! I've had enough of them blocking the left lane! This is bad, especially in the Bay Area! We need to spread awareness. Please Like and Share!
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It's like this in the US everywhere. I've driven over half the states in the country. It's worse in some places but until the police enforce this law it will never change. It drives me crazy
Sad but true. Police are more focused on speed than anything else. It’s more convenient and easier to cite.
The left lane hogs aren't the only problem. I see many drivers that will speed up 5mph or more when you go to pass them, which means you have to decide if you want to accelerate even more, or slow down and get back in the right lane. When you slow down to get back in the right lane, they go back to their previous slow speed. Sometimes I've gone through this loop like 3 or 4 times before deciding to accelerate faster while passing to get away from the dangerous driver.
Yeah I hate that game. They’ll cut you off and drive slower and the moment you try to pass them on the right they suddenly want to keep a tight gap on the car in front of them and once you get back behind them it’s a brake check game.
The only way this will change is if the Highway Patrol started ticketing left lane hogs.
Mike
I agree. I’d love to be undercover just to ticket these people and put them in right lane jail.
Unfortunately police don't enforce at all in California. Left lane campers don't understand that they're blocking the flow of traffic
I wish they would. They want to enforce speed more than anything.
Maybe I should move to Pinal County
*I don't think it's so much to do with giving out tickets, but it needs to be spread out on the news and reported like it's actual news so it reaches a widespread of audience that left lane is for passing on the highways. The news is constantly "educating" people speed kills whenever there is some accident reported in the news. But there's no platform out there to educate the mass about left lane hogging.*
It needs to carry a hefty, mandatory fine and jail time for multiple offenses - then the tickets mean something and will be reported on the news. Additionally, law enforcement needs to spend at least a year focusing on pulling over every single car they spot - and not just on interstates and highways. In Florida, they are trying to expand it to all multiple-lane roads. That's the only thing that will make the word spread so that people will know it's against the law. Breaking this law can kill people - just like drunk driving can - so criminalize it like drunk driving. Is that extreme, you bet it is because it's a dangerous crime. It's against the law now and no one knows it
It's absolutely horrible in Connecticut. So many people hog the left lane and actively try to block others from passing everyday here. It's insane; dangerous and definitely frustrating.
I have driven in Germany, it is illegal to pass on the right on the Autobahn, so people will have to speed up in the left lanes or obstruct traffic. Also they have unlimited speed limits over most of the Autobahn. If your are in the left lane and someone comes ujp behind you you move over and if you come up behind someone they have to move over. Sometimes I think that driver's license given out like free coupons or something.
And don’t get me started on the cars that are too afraid to pass tractor trailers, so they camping there Blindspot in the lane next to them 🤬
CA DMV driver’s license road tests need to be harder, not just make you drive around few blocks, it’s waaaaaaay too easy to get and retain a driver’s license in CA... Also the CA Highway Patrol need to start ticketing those left lane hogs!
Bingo! CHP needs to enforce it!
Highway 99, Bakersfield to Sacramento, is absolute hell.
Trust me I know I live in Oregon and see it all the time on I5.. ticks me off!! These people don't care, they dont check their mirrors or care what's going on around them.
It’s has been worse since this video. If I had hair I’d pull it out
@@eddiemcars Indeed, people on their phones in the left lane and just overall not giving a crap if they have a parade of cars behind them all having to pass on the right. Accidents have gone down since summer, where everyday just about was a traffic jam going to work or back home.
California is pretty bad but I drive for a living I drive across the entire country and I have to tell you the worst left lane huggers are in Florida between all the old people in Florida all the snowbirds all the vacationers and all the rich entitled people it is incredible and in Florida it is literally illegal to sit in the left lane if you’re not passing but nobody ever gets pulled over for it
You are 100% right! This has been getting worse over the years, I’ve never seen it so bad as it is this day and age! And it seems like highway patrol does nothing about it. It’s so frustrating! They would rather take a speed getting around a dangerous driver blocking the left lane,then to scold the slow driver that’s blocking traffic and clogging up the lanes!
Here in Germany most traffic on the Autobahn travels between 75 - 125 mph. Occasionally some are even faster. Speed is not the problem.
Drivers know how to use the proper lanes, just like this guy is talking about. Using proper lanes works well. It keeps the highway orderly and clear. Therefore higher speeds are possible and more safe.
The most important issue though is driver training. The US has a pathetic program for training drivers. In Germany it takes 6 months to a year to get your license and it cost around €2000. You screw up driving you can have your license revoked. Thats a lot of time and money gone pkus the inconvenience of now using yhe bus or train for going everywhere.
Hey Ed same S&@t in Chicago……they don’t understand slower traffic to the right
NorCal native here, sac and especially that stretch between Fairfield and Benicia on 680 is the worst when it comes to lane discipline
100% agree
If there's one road in Cali that's the worst, it has to be I-5 in the central valley. Part of it has to do with it being undersized for the amount of traffic, but it also has to do with people who feel entitled to use the left lane continuously.
Nyc is the same way.. and when you gently flash your beams to tell them to move over, they brake check you.
Yeah I tried to be patient and wait. People are in their own world.
Same in CT, it's just as bad if not worse here.
Same issue in Texas. This is one of the things that gets me from 😇 to 🤬 in a very short time.
Exactly! I can go from having a great day and cruising along until I get stuck behind a train of cars because one 1 single guy!
All accidents caused by drivers who are too entitled to be in passing lane due to drivers wrecking trying go around them or chain reaction should be fined, suspended, and their insurance should pay. Yesterday I had a driver get mad at me for passing them in the left lane, and yeah sure I could a little close but I didn't want to rear end the car in the middle lane. I care less about the car I got in front of closely because they were in the lane for miles and and would not move over.
I also agree 100% about how driving fast around traffic is safer than being around drivers who can't drive or have phones in their hands. I do about 75-80mph. The problem is because will check up, constantly change speeds and such. My Ram 1500 is a V6 and it has plenty of power to get around stupid drivers. The mpg gets killed when I have to decelerate and accelerate constantly on the freeway vs a steady flow and steady speed I get over 20mpg.
I 100% agree especially all the freeways in Sac! And the worst worse is on 80 going to the bay and the way going from Fairfield to Benicia!
That I-680 near the slough has to be the absolute worst part!
@@eddiemcars how ironic my friend called me yesterday going to San Jose from sac and called me about the slow cars in the way at that exact spot.
The police don't care about blocking the left lane. They care about people speeding and tailing.
I know. It’s much easier to pull someone for speeding.
@@eddiemcars literally yesterday I was driving in Missouri and a trucker was blocking the left lane going the speed limit (70). Honked the crap out of him to no avail. Eventually he moved over though.
Washington is the same way. I saw that when I was cali to pick up F15.
In the cities it's multi-lane, countryside is autobahn style. I stay in the 2nd or 3rd lane. Number 4-3 lanes is for trucks.
It's a huge problem in Texas as well. Even on highways with signs saying" SLOWER TRAFFIC KEEP RIGHT". I see state troopers, local cops, camping in the left lane as they drive past these signs? Maybe these idiots don't know the definition of "slower traffic". I've heard, "I'm doing the speed limit". Whatever the hell that's supposed to mean. Signs should say" DRIVE ON THE RIGHT ANYTIME YOU ARE NOT PASSING SOMEONE". And if in the left lane either pass all the cars on the right or pull over to the right. Most Texas drivers don't have a clue what this is about. They apparently don't notice or care how traffic gets backup when someone is being approached from the rear and they are camped in the left lane, causing drivers to dart right left, right left to clear them. Learn from Germany. One thing that makes German drivers so different from American drivers is that in Germany driving in an earned privilege, whereas in America drivers think it is a RIGHT, with no need to display any knowledge. I blame the states DOT for not having more requirements to drive. Like knowing what your doing as it effects others.
Honestly the carpool lane is mostly responsible for this crap. You go back and forth from carpool to left lane and so youve got this slew of very inactive, inattentive drivers who try like hell to never change lanes, and in a lot of cases shouldnt be driving at all because they lack the skill for it. People are annoyingly oblivious, they have no idea youre behind them, and if they do half the time they dont care, "uhhh go around" or some shit... But no, thats more dangerous. We shouldnt be forced to pass from the right (passing blind because we are driver left side in the US), and by blocking the lane youre literally making the drive less safe for EVERYONE on the roadway.
Dont make yourself someone else's problem, stay out of each other's way and youll die of old age without ever getting in a fight.. or make your life and everyone elses harder than they need to be. Your call i guess.
It seems like most of these drivers are oblivious to the rear view mirror and never even look into it or think it's used to check how they look before they drive off and that's it. It's getting even worse now with Tesla drivers and auto pilot engaged, since they completely don't care what is happening while they chit chat amongst themselves or check their email while the car is doing all the driving, make sure that auto pilot disengages when you pull in front of them so they have to go back to paying attention to driving.
It’s really annoying. I will do a follow up soon. It’s getting worse.
Please stop making excuses for these people. Just say that they’re dangerous drivers. Oh, they aren’t paying attention. Oh, it’s not their fault not paying attention. Bullshit
It’s the same in colorado. So annoying people just don’t understand
That sucks. That doesn't make it right, there needs to me more enforcement.
@@eddiemcars there are signs every 500 feet that say keep right unless passing but people ignore them
I also realize that. but also sometimes sticking someone else's tail is dangerous. people are shooting ammunition like cigarettes in the freeways
Yeah I watched a video of that guy in Florida shooting through his windshield. People are getting crazy! I don’t think there’s any safe solution to be honest.
Courtesy flash either makes them mad or brake check
Tailgating sometimes with cause them to go slower and then they will intentionally block the left lane
Passing on the right can be dangerous as well.
I refuse to submit and accept this behavior though!
You can stick with some other car, but follow At a reasonable distance, but following at 5 or 10 car links for 10 miles is nerve. Racking back off a 1/2 a mile, please. And no matter what you do, do not travel the same speed as me in a different lane than me or the same speed as anyone in a different lane than them. Driving the right lane past at the left. Return to the right, but speed matching is the single most nerve-racking thing on the planet. I'd rather you tailgate me than drive beside me.
Or anyone else?
Toronto Canada is the same way unfortunately
Even worse I'd say, the right lane is the new passing lane ecspecially on the 400 series freeway
South Orange County is so bad
The sign posted in this video, and therefore law, is SLOWER TRAFFIC KEEP RIGHT. Super, super simple, if you have someone behind you then guess what, you are the slower traffic, you need to move to the right. Speed limits are not a factor in this law. It doesn't matter if you are already going over the speed limit. If you have someone behind you and you do not move to the right then you could get a ticket. What if a patient dies in an ambulance because they didn't get to the hospital in time because you wanted to hold your lane. Not something I'd want on my conscience.
100% agree.
Like that way the exact freeway you had your video on I blow past cars because they all go too slow!
CALIFORNIA is the worse than any other state I have driven in. I'm not talking about in the city area's every highway when it's open road.
Yep! 💯
same in az lol left lane isnt for going slow
I think it’s more of a ignorance thing. Same thing in nyc.
Super annoying!
Everyone says their state is the worst. This is a problem across the country. Drivers are not educated.
Multiple lane highways, same thing
the law says drive the right most lane pass to the left. Stop making excuses for why you can't drive, right? Always drive faster than traffic to you're right, and slower than traffic to your left.
And Florida!
LOL!! Most people need to know that every city and state has different rules about this!!
But the problem I have with calling most drivers in the left lane "campers" is the speed limit for those roads!!
So if the speed limit is 55mph and most drivers maybe doing 65mph which IS over the speed limit and some idiots come up behind and want to do 75-85mph does not mean the 65mph driver is camping in that lane!!
Plus those drivers going 20+?mph over the speed limit stay in that lane and DO NOT move over to the NON- PASSING lane!!
So the driver who is supposedly going slow and camping is trying to be a speed cop??
But the ones who say that are trying to be speed cops also!!☹️☹️🤬🤬😁
I personally do not believe in the left lane being a passing lane!! And those not moving out of it being a danger to others!!
I believe those who are speeding in the left lane are WAY MORE dangerous do to the FACT that by speeding EVERYONE 'S Reaction time is way less!!
And driving to FAST or unsafe for condition's IS the Number one cause of accidents!! I have NEVER heard of driving the speed limit or 10mph over being the cause of a LOT of accidents!!
And if you get angry at someone driving slower than YOU like, then IT IS YOUR PROBLEM!! NOT THE OTHER DRIVERS!!
And here it is folks… Our first comment from the perspective of a left-lane camper!
@@eddiemcars LOL!! NOT a "left lane camper"!! Sorry that my opinion is Not the same as yours!!
@@eddiemcars the reason I do not believe in the passing lane is that I see every day vehicles in that lane and most are NOT in the lane to pass!! They are in it just to speed!!
And you and other's need to read your state's rules of the road about the passing lane and what road ways have passing lanes and those that do not!!
And just because some idiot comes up behind me when I am already going over the speed limit does NOT mean that I am "camping" and have to move over for their DUMB AS$&_!!🤣🤣
I think its Karens driving in left lane, kind of same mentality. Its ignorance too. No Empathy
I'm in Florida and it's as bad if not worse. I think they need to criminalize it and law enforcement should spend a year pulling over every car that does it. If they have to pay a HUGE fine or spend a few days in jail, it's the only way people will know it's against the law - because in my state it IS AGAINST THE LAW!
It is a deadly problem and when I'm caught behind a person like this, I feel at risk and will eventually pass on the right because I don't want to die on the highway because of an ignorant person.
A couple of days ago, I was on the highway when a man driving a company truck was in the left lane blocking traffic. There was no one in front of him in either lane - and if he looked in his rearview mirror, he would see that there was a long line of traffic and some cars beginning to drive erratically.
So, maybe he wasn't paying attention and didn't know. But eventually, the person behind the idiot was being tailgated by an angry driver behind him...so he started flashing his lights at the idiot. NOTHING. So, then he started honking...still NOTHING. Then EVERYONE STARTED HONKING, still NOTHING. At this point, I see it as a criminal offense, he's endangering everyone behind him.
I began taking video and snapshots including his license plate. Things got so out-of-control that the person in the right lane slowed down to let people pass, and you wanna guess what left-lane idiot did, yep...he slowed down to continue to block traffic. Now, I'm beyond annoyed, I'm irate. I don't want to die on the highway because of this awful person purposely causing problems and endangering the lives of many. No doubt he was thinking that he was going to teach the tailgating people a lesson...after all, he was going the speed limit and speeding is against the law so he is in the right.
As an aside, he couldn't even claim that he didn't want to move over to the right because he'd be stuck in slow traffic - there was NOT A SINGLE CAR IN THE RIGHT LINE other than the car he was driving right next to.
So, when I got home I got together a copy of the law, the link to the highway patrol's website dedicated to this dangerous violation of law, a brochure by law enforcement about the dangers left-lane drivers cause, the pictures and video of what the guy did in the company's truck and then had an attorney friend send a terse letter to the company letting them know that they are liable for the actions of this man and that his actions put the lives of many people in danger and reflected very badly on his company. Do I hope the guy gets fired, sorry, YES I do! It might save lives - including his own...and until there are severe consequences, the empty brains out there will never be aware. And with traffic growing worse and worse, this is going to become an even more dangerous problem. Especially in Florida where our governor just signed a bill making it okay to carry guns without permits. ALL OF US wanted to shoot the guy after he ignored the flashing lights and honking horns, and when the guy in the right lane tried to let people get by, he wouldn't let anyone pass. He purposely endangered all of us so it became an angry and frightened mob at that point. It was the kind of situation where those with a trigger finger can get carried away.
So, starting July 1, 2023...stay off Florida highways and out of Florida malls if you want to Arrive Alive.
Wait, maybe in Florida we can make it legal to shoot the ignorant left-lane drivers.
Shoot-to-Pass-and-Arrive-Alive in the Sunshine State!
Thank you Gov-soon-to-be-Prez-DeSantis
No, too extreme (you haven't been to Florida, have you?) - but, okay - how about just letting us shoot out the idiot left-lane driver's tires thus endangering his life since he knowingly endangers the lives of others. Still too much? Well, many of us who have to drive the roads frequently are beginning to think it's the only thing that will correct this deadly problem is insanity.
Florida can not enforce it unless like the other states they start educating police officers. Police don't know the law any better than anybody else
& do not understand that is illegal FL 316.186(2) Drive in the right most land except while passing To the left and do not Impede faster traffic.
Police officers do not just magically know all traffic law any better than anybody else in the country does. Because Florida police officers are taught just like you I are taught to drive, mostly by Daddy and Mommy who say things like. "try to get in one lane and stay there" & other things that do not coincide with proper legal lane usage.
For instance scared Mommy and daddy never tell junior to speed up and complete the pass,
but they say ignorant things like don't speed "let them get the ticket"
, just stay here and maintain your lane.
Mommy and daddy teach junior to be a passive-aggressive driver. And junior grows up insisting that hes not an aggressive driver because he doesn't see passive, aggressive as being aggressive.
Police officers do get training on how to drive a motor vehicle more safely but you cannot "inject" them with all of traffic law.
If cops knew traffic law, then we wouldn't need judges.
That is, and they wouldn't take jobs where they get shot at. And get their a**** kept for a living. They would take higher paying jobs. So don't assume they know the law just because they enforce it.
And im passing in the rite lane just blowing by idiots that think they are doing good and going faster in the left la me e .lolmorons
Eddie ... visit Florida lololol
You’re the second person that said Florida is bad also!
Your Intro is way too long, didn’t start the commentary until 1:30, not waiting any longer 🙄
In California you have to MAKE YOUR OWN passing lane. Which makes driving even more dangerous but fun!
Yep, CHP doesn't like when I do that though LOL
Ignorance. And cali is not different then every where else in the country.
I’ve lived in a lot of states. This area has to be the worse I’ve seen