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[ale] [OT rant] selfishness
- Subject: [ale] [OT rant] selfishness
- From: ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com (Jim Lynch)
- Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 07:06:22 -0500
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On 01/11/2013 01:19 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> I have noticed on my jaunts to Boulder that above the Mason-Dixon
> line, driving changes radically for the better. If I'm approaching
> someone in the left lane, they pull over to the right. If I use my
> turn signal to indicate I'm changing lanes, the car I'm about to pull
> in front of will either make a bit more room for me of flash lights to
> let me know I'm clear when it's really close. No one guns it to cut me
> off from changing lanes.
I grew up in the midwest and at that time I observed the same thing.
The reason, I believe, is (or was) that there were laws in place that
required you to drive on the right unless passing. They were well
enforced. The UK is the same way.
Jim.