[ken_xman]

Originally posted by SoCal911SC
That must be an Alabama thing, it's not that way in California or any of the other states I've driven in.

If you are going the speed limit, you can camp out in the left lane all day out here!

I try to stay out of the left lane as much as possible. And if I'm there and someone comes up behind me going faster, I'll immediately let them by, no matter how fast I'm going. But if I have to constantly be going in and out of the lanes, I'll generally stay in the left. I'd prefer not to, because it's a higher profile lane, but if the next lane isn't flowing fast enough, I'll take my chances.

I think out on the open road out here, people are pretty good about it. I just did 1000 miles from So. Cal. to Arizona this weekend, an only encountered a couple of Left Lane Bandits the entire time. I was surprised on the I10 how fast traffic flowed. One could (theoretically) cruise in the fast lane at 95-100 range for hours on end, and get held up very little. Theoretically. One could probably set the car computer at the beginning of the trip and have it average in the 80s mph over a 400 mile stretch, theoretically.

Out on the open desert roads, cars are actually pretty good about moving out of the left lane to let others by, even if they are going at a pretty good clip. The long distance drivers out here behave quite a bit differently than the short trip commuters.

I think its a law in every state, not enforced in most.