Yeah, I got to experience the car pool lanes while in Calif. recently. We don't have them here. I've got my wife and 2 kids with me and at first thought, 'I'm not car-pooling here' so didn't drive in them. Then I figured, what the hell, I doubt ANYBODY is really car-pooling!! So I drove in them until, invariably, you'd run into a snag caused by some concerned citizen actually traveling at the SPEED LIMIT for god's sake!! So, bottom line, it was quicker to just utilize all six lanes and drive in whatever lane was moving the fastest .......
