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Originally Posted by tdw28210

JEven if that means overriding your cruise setting or exceeding the speed limit for a bit.

I think a lot of folks are in the "I'll move over as soon as I get a spot, but I'm not going to speed up to do it" camp.

I am convinced that despite roads signs and actual laws against blocking the left lane, some people honestly don't give an actual F*@# about their fellow drivers or the danger they a creating behind them by blocking the left lane.

Far more likely to be Hanlon's Razor, essentially clueless, much more likely than maliciousness (although that's probably it in a few folks).

I also believe a small subset of drivers believe themselves to be self-ordained speed enforcement officials (looking at you Prius drivers).

Funny, I've been passed by priuses hauling aß many times. I know there are folks like this "I'm going the speed limit, everyone else can kiß my aß." There are also folks that think, "I'm going 5 over, and no one should need to go faster than that." Yep, those folks are aßhats for sure.

It pisses me off tremendously to see the traffic pile up around me while an self-absorbed a55hat blocks the left lane mile after mile (OTR truckers included).

As much as possible, I consider them mobile chicanes and try to get around as quickly as possible. My commute these days is ~84 miles each way with 95%+ of that being Interstate 10, and probably 50+ miles of that being outside of towns. For the past 2 months, the traffic has been a bit heavier because of all of the summer vacation traffic. I try to do my driving outside of the usual "rush hours".

Couple this with general cell phone addiction in ALL lanes and driving has become incredibly frustrating and risky. I used to enjoy the road trip experience, now it is just a necessary evil. The journey is no longer the destination. Rant over.

You can still find times/places where the destination is the journey, but they are certainly less common.