Rules for Safe Driving

Drivers should NOT impede the flow of traffic, as said in the last e-mail. The law, is KEEP RIGHT EXCEPT WHEN PASSING. One cruises in the right lane, until he/she needs to pass the car ahead of them at a slightly higher rate of speed as to the car ahead of them, then use the left lane-which should be as clear as possible, even in situations of heavier traffic and rush hour- to make their safe pass, and as soon as their safe pass is over, move aside immediately!!!! There could be someone behind you some distance who needs that lane for his/her personal reasons. As the article said, leave speed enforcement to the police, and have the courtesy to let faster traffic go by. What the article failed to mention, is you should be cruising the right lanes, and let them pass you on the LEFT/PASSING ONLY LANES. The left lane is intended by law for passing only, or preparing for a left hand turn, AND THAT IS IT! NO CASUAL CRUISING IN THE LEFT LANE! And it is not only an American law, but it is actually a mostly universal law. And countries who drive right hand drive cars, such as the UK and Japan, have the exact opposite, where the left lanes are for cruising and the right lane is mainly for passing. Their version of our law. Order on the roads is crucial to safety. Speed is often wrongly blamed for accidents. What really causes accidents and deaths is shear ignorance. And cruising the left lane and congesting the flow of traffic by doing so, is a very selfish, unnecessary, dangerous, and ignorant act, that should be fined. Another point to make, police-fire-ambulance, and other emergency vehicles need this left lane to be AS UNINTERRUPTED AS POSSIBLE, because whether they are headed to the emergency, or to the hospital, or wherever it is they are going, they need the left lane open at all times- even in intersections- their path must be as clear and uninterrupted as possible. And since we do not know what traffic situations are behind us, we must all take on the personal responsibility of a potential emergency that could happen at any time, and regardless of our situations, still have the humility to keep aside to the right, and feel serious guilt for adding time to other people's emergencies when we are wrongfully in the left lane. When people cruise the left lane, or stop at an intersection in the left lane, even if they move aside, and move back (like idiots) to the left lane after the emergency vehicle has passed, they still forced the emergency vehicle to slow down for them, and when people are stuck in that left lane, it forces these emergency vehicles to really have to slow down, scan the intersection, often have to go into opposing traffic, etc, to continue their run. These delays, worth many seconds at a time, times the number of ignorant drivers out there creating these delays, add so many seconds to the emergency, they end up adding minutes to these emergencies, WHEN EVERY SECOND COUNTS! And why many of the police (but thankfully, not all) throughout the US, have not tapped into this very serious misdemeanor, and cited these "LEFT LANE HOGS," is beyond me. There is so much violation out there, that police and cities who struggle with tax cuts and poor revenue, could easily fix all their financial problems and then some, and make the roads safer and more organized, and easier for all! Also imagine... 99.9% of the people out there, do not know what it feels like to have an unexpected heart attack, have the sudden intense pain in your chest, like an elephant's foot crushing it, you can't breathe, you are panicked, and your life is incomplete, you have children, family, and their financial welfare in your hands, and you are not ready to die!!! You are counting every second until your emergency vehicle arrives- NOT BREATHING, WITH YOUR CHEST FEELING CRUSHED, AND ARM AND BODY ARE IN SEVERE PAIN, AND YOU ARE IN AND OUT OF CONSCIOUSNESS, AND IF YOU LOSE CONSCIOUSNESS, YOU ARE AFRAID YOU WILL DIE!!! You are dying in the next few minutes, but you must to be patient. While your ambulance is getting to you, and you are panicked counting every second left in your life, you have to allow people to cruise the left lane and hold up your ambulance collectively another 1-2-3+ minutes. Most of us can hold our breaths for 20-30 seconds before we give up and need to take a deep breath again. BUT YOU, the heart attack victim, has to hold their breath with that elephant's foot crushing your chest, should be willing to add an extra 2-3 minutes of holding your breath in horrible pain, losing you arm function, brain function, etc! It's the people's right to hold up the left lane, EVEN IF it holds up your emergency! If you die, oh well, you die. No big deal. I, along with millions of everyday Americans, have the right to cruise that left lane and abuse it! It is my right!!! I demand it! Screw you, the victim of an emergency! Oh, the left lane is so comfortable! How do you explain this to a victim, let alone, the many thousands of emergencies there are out there? Just because the emergency has not happenned to you, does not mean an emergency may never happen to you. Think, how would you or a close loved one would need to be responded to, the day you are in an emergency, and how furious you will be at unneccessary delays and the selfish and ignorant people responsible for them, adding minutes to you recieving your help, when you are counting every second left in your life!!! And you cannot do anything about it! Now practice that same consideration towards others, as you would have done unto you. Cruising the left lane, thus impeding the flow of traffic, should be such a serious ticket, at least at the level of speeding. Cities: Your financial problems have just been solved. Remember, KEEP RIGHT EXCEPT WHEN PASSING

amen fourpause4. i 2nd that emotion! i would add to these tips: slow to an appropriate speed when coming to a blind corner or hill. u don't know what is going on, on the other side. there may b a car stalled or an accident.