I noticed when I used to drive between Chico, CA and the Bay Area a lot that I could go the same speed for a couple of hours on I-80 and sometimes everyone was passing me and sometimes I was passing everyone else. Never did figure out why.

-t, I experience the same thing on I-5, though there you have to be in the 80+ range to keep from being mowed over. I try very hard to keep with the flow of traffic, going up and down as necessary - but all the speeds seemed to be above the speed limit.

I have no trouble driving the speed limit when everyone else is blowing past me. I'm not going to drive beyond my confidence level because other people are drunk on the power of internal combustion.

Come to think of it, part of that trip was on the 5. Maybe that's the key.

Uh, I drive like a bat out of hell. I admit it. Only on the highway, though. It's fairly common for me to look down at the speedometer and not realize I was doing 80.

Side/residential streets -- no, I don't haul ass on them. Too many kids.

Passing on the right is just rude!

One of my biggest pet peeves.

Truly, one of MY biggest peeves is being on a 2-lane highway (er, 2 lanes in each direction), and being in the left lane so that I *can* go fast, and getting some joker in front of me doing 45 or 50.

I know it's rude and wrong, but I pass people like that on the right. 2 lanes, rush hour, they're not moving out of the left lane -- what the hell else is a person to do? And in situations like that, I'm far from the only one being a dick and passing on the right.

Yes, I know -- just because other people are doing it doesn't make it right. But it's also not right -- or safe -- to go below the speed limit on the highway, particularly in the left lane, particularly during rush hour.

Yup, I admit it. I am the driver you all hate. But I do use my blinker.

t edit And I *love* driving. Open road, car go vroom, all that jazz.

Yup, I admit it. I am the driver you all hate.

You're not the driver I hate unless you whip around me on the right before I have a chance to get out of your way on the left. I have my blinker on! I'm moving! Just wait two seconds!

Teppy is me behind the wheel.

You're not the driver I hate unless you whip around me on the right before I have a chance to get out of your way on the left. I have my blinker on! I'm moving! Just wait two seconds!

Oh, no -- if they have a blinker on, and if I haven't just driven behind them for 5 minutes while they blithely didn't move, then I wait for them to move over so I can hit the long skinny pedal on the left and go vroom.

But, I mean -- I truly don't understand the people who enter the highway on the right, and then defy safety to get all the way over to the left, only to drive 5-10 mph *under* the speed limit. Given that most people around here drive about 5-10 mph *over,* that makes Turtle McSlowass driving at anywhere from 5-20 mph slower than the rest of traffic. While in the fast lane. That kind of shit causes accidents.

The right-passing driver I hate is the one who chooses to pass on the right when there are wide-open lanes on my left. And I'm a good 10 or so above the limit. Even if doing so means they have to jump into an off-ramp lane which I've already signaled that I'm getting into. THAT's the right-passing driver I hate.

I drive really slow/in the ultra-fast lane/while people behind me/are going insane...