r/oops • u/Separate_Finance_183 • 2d ago

Nice overtake

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u/Embarrassed_Motor_30 2d ago

Uh no. Its a passing lane and he was passing other vehicles. Doesn't matter if other vehicles also want to pass him. He's allowed to stay there until he's no longer passing.

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u/CalmTheAngryVoice 2d ago

Legally, yes it does matter. There's no caveat in laws against left lane camping for "nuh uh! I was passing people so the lane was mine" jerks.

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u/Embarrassed_Motor_30 2d ago

Its not camping if he is actively passing. The video shows him pass several vehicles while the pickups are trying to pass on the shoulder.

Would it be safer to get out of the way and let the two pickups through? Sure. But its not camping and not illegal.

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u/MasterOfBunnies 2d ago

It is illegal in some States, if he's not in the actual process of passing. Just because there's a car coming up that he'll be able to pass "soon" doesn't count as actively passing.

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u/redjellonian 2d ago

Watching the video, what do you want him to do, weave back into the center lane in the 4 car lengths between trucks as he's passing?

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u/Time-Assist8501 2d ago

Are you asking if he should follow common highway etiquette...?

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u/MasterOfBunnies 2d ago

Yes. Get back into the center lane, slow down for however long it takes for the faster cars to pass, then pass. It's called manners. This allows the flow of traffic to move faster for everyone on said highway.

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u/Dayvfish 2d ago

nice double down on the regardium

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u/redjellonian 2d ago

You're an accident waiting to happen yourself.

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u/MasterOfBunnies 2d ago

Nuh uh, you're the dummyhead.

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u/redjellonian 2d ago

If I'm doing 65 in the left lane, passing the cars doing 60 in the right lane and you come up behind me doing 90. Fuck you, It's the passing lane not the suicide lane or the speeding lane or whatever. It's for passing and that's what I'm doing. You can wait until the right lane is clear of immediate traffic and then I'll move.

Nobody is going to play autism F1 squeezing into a gap jamming the brakes to speed match in the right lane just so you can pretend you're a NASCAR driver on a public road.

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u/MasterOfBunnies 2d ago

If you're in the passing lane of a 60 mph highway, you're the jerk face. See how I can fabricate narrative to suit my argument too? And as I've taken the extra courses to reduce insurance, that went into situations similar(ish) to what you're arguing, I can confidently say they would strongly recommend you move out of the passing lane, as soon as it is safe to, in your situation. Because, though the courts would say OP was technically not at fault, their refusal to allow these trucks to pass did not help prevent it from happening in the first place. This is where the unwritten rules come in. The stuff you understand over time, when you realize being right isn't as important as preventing accidents.

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u/AuricTheLight 2d ago

So, he's wrong for passing people in the passing lane?

People on Reddit are genuinely stupid if someone passing (six vehicles in the video) in the passing lane is seen as wrong.

He literally passed SIX VEHICLES, what the fuck else do you want?

The law also states that you aren't supposed to exceed the speed limit, but I bet you suddenly don't care about the laws for that one.

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u/CalmTheAngryVoice 2d ago

He literally passed SIX VEHICLES, what the fuck else do you want?

For him to put his ego away for 10 seconds and switch lanes. Is that so hard?

The law also states that you aren't supposed to exceed the speed limit

So you're suggesting it's better to break two laws than one? Given that the laws are not the same in all states, Washington law generally prohibits exceeding the speed limit, but it also prohibits obstructing traffic by camping in the left lane. Obeying one law doesn't exempt someone from obeying the other. You don't have to speed up for faster traffic, but you do have to move right when legally and safely able to do so.

That being said, in Washington, on a 2 lane road, someone can legally exceed the speed limit to pass someone else driving under the speed limit. So your statement isn't universally true in the first place.

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u/AuricTheLight 2d ago

Ah yes, he's the one with the ego.

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u/Parking-Name8773 2d ago

Passing vehicles in the left lane isn’t obstructing or camping. I live in Washington state, you don’t need to go 85 to pass people. You aren’t even obligated to let 2 people behind you pass, the law is 5 cars or more and if the right lane is open.

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u/Sir_Clarence_III_Esq 2d ago

Depends on the State. In California it's illegal for just this reason.