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Not all drivers. Not even most. But the BAD drivers that aren't really crazy or driving aggressive but are just driving like... like NPCs would, are far far more common?

For example I've noticed quite frequently a driver who drives as though they have ZERO foresight and can't plan what they're going to do or predict what may happen and drive with anticipation.

It's really odd.

Not all drivers. Not even most. But the BAD drivers that aren't really crazy or driving aggressive but are just driving like... like NPCs would, are far far more common? For example I've noticed quite frequently a driver who drives as though they have ZERO foresight and can't plan what they're going to do or predict what may happen and drive with anticipation. It's really odd.

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That could be an option in extreme cases, but the poblem is defining "slow" in the fast lane. Speed limit? 10mph above the speed limit? Some fucking asshole will always want to go 5mph faster, until they've passed everyone and then THEY become the slow driver in the fast lane who wont get over.

The driver with the gratuitous passing in the slow lane or merge lane must FORCE THEIR WAY BACK IN FRONT of the cars they just passed, SLOWING THE ENTIRE FREEWAY DOWN, which puts them squarely in the should-be-dead category.

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In a boagaloo scenario, I am driving to the conditions and my (and my vehicle 's) ability, and not following stupid speed limits. I will continue to slow down on blind corners especially on country roads, despite high speed limits.

Some fucking asshole will always want to go 5mph faster, until they've passed everyone and then THEY become the slow driver.

I fucking hate that. I don't have cruise control but I don't find it hard to keep a consistent speed, but the insistent overtakers somehow vary wildly.

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Your suffering is endearing. At least I'm not the only rational being on the road. I try to change lanes prior-to, or simultaneously with the irrational overtaker, and then match the speed of the fast lane if possible. If the overtaker gets behind me, another car may pass them in the high lane. If the overtaker stays in the fast lane, and cuts in front of me anyways, I often get right back in the fast lane and wind up passing the overtaker, who gets stuck in the slower lane, in spite of their efforts to the contrary. They'll swerve, mash the gas pedal, and hit the brakes just to avoid being a rational driver, meanwhile I'm just changing lanes back and forth. The article I posted on "parallel boarding" in airplanes has many direct allegories with freeway driving besides just boarding the freeway, eg. "parallel distribution" of your vehicle across different lanes at roughly the same speed instead of "swerve and mash" like it's the freaking Indy 500.

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From the article I posted: "The key is parallelism, according to Steffen: the ideal scenario is having more than one person sitting down at the same time. "The more parallel you can make the boarding process, the faster it will go,"

With cars getting onto the freeway, this translates to "the ideal scenario is having more than one car get over to the left (fast) lane at the same time".

In practice, many drivers getting on the freeway shoot as fast as possible to the front of the merging lane, which ends, forcing them to cut-off the cars they just passed. This is "linear boarding", the opposite of "parallel boarding". The problem is exacerbated by "one car per green" lights on many freeway onramps, which only make bad drivers want to race down the merging onramp lane even faster to make up for the lost time, typically with the next car doing the same thing. Pretty soon, there's several cars at the end of the merging lane, all needing to get over to the left lane, which they could have merged into and sped away instead of forcing the entire freeway to grind to a halt.